New School Creation Fellowship
Design and launch an innovative school focused on equity and deeper learning
Reimagine Education for Justice
Committed to co-designing a new school with, and not for, your community? New School Creation Fellows are supported in leadership development, school design, and new school start-up for radically reimagined education grounded in love, justice, and collective liberation. The 16 diverse-by-design, project-based High Tech High schools provide an innovative and disruptive context for rethinking what is possible, and are intended to serve as sources for inspiration, not replication.
Applications for our next cohort will open in January 2023.
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What sets us apart
About the Program
Engage with school founders around the country who are working to dismantle systems of oppression in the communities they serve.
Funded by the Walton Family Foundation, The New School Creation Fellowship (NSCF) is offered as a two-year, hybrid, online program with two fully-funded residencies at our San Diego campus. The fellowship is available for aspiring school founders in the United States.
In Person Residencies
- In Year 1, fellows will have the opportunity to attend an in-person Fall Residency in October and an in-person Spring Residency in March.
- In Year 2, fellows will have the opportunity to attend an in-person Residency in the Spring.
- All residencies take place at High Tech High in San Diego, CA. All lodging and travel expenses will be covered by the Fellowship.
- At these Residencies, Fellows will build relationships, work with National Faculty, visit HTH schools, and engage in design work with their team members.
Year 1:
Fall Residency (October)
Spring Residency (late March)
Year 2:
Spring Residency (late March)
Monthly Online Programming
- Monthly online Fire Talks and expert panels with thought leaders in the field of education
- Workshops focused on the process of opening a school
- 1-2 hours online programming/month
National School Visits
- Learn from New School Founders in their context
- Hear the stories of their students, parents, & community members
- Explore the criticality of place, people & higher purpose
- Hear from innovative leaders in different industries
- Broaden and deepen your relationships across the country
- Up to 2 visits over 2 years
Mentor & Advisor Support
- Each fellow/team is partnered with a National Faculty mentor whose background meets their interests. They will serve as a thought partner, confidante and champion for the fellow. Fellows meet with their advisors monthly
- Fellows will also received personalized support through a small-group advisory that meets monthly
Launch Date
Duration
Format
Our Team
Marla Carver
Brittney Quinones
Kaleb Rashad
Kelly Wilson
Melissa Daniels
Stacey Lopaz
Tony Simmons
Applications for our next cohort will open in January 2023.
Admissions Requirements
- Earned BA/BS from a regionally accredited university.
- Extensive prior experience supporting and/or teaching in schools.
- Leadership experience in schools is strongly preferred.
- Strong commitment to opening a new school by fall of 2024.
- Preferred candidates will demonstrate evidence of collaboration with a founding design team, advisory board and/or the community before joining the program.
- Preference will given to applicants who are part of a team
All travel and lodging costs are covered for individual fellows. In addition, each school team will receive a $10,000 planning grant.
There are many different fellowships that exist to support school founders. Here is what sets ours apart:
Focus on Liberatory Design
“NSCF is the only fellowship I have participated in with such a strong orientation towards Liberatory Design of Schools.”
Relationship Building
“I’ve been a part of several fellowships over the past 15 years in education and I’ve never experienced anything that comes close to the power of NSCF. Figuring out how to help school leaders work with boards, manage budgets, build ops plans, etc. is important work, and there are a lot of fellowships with those supports in place. There is absolutely nothing in the country that supports school leaders in creating real, lasting, and impactful change like NSCF. The NSCF expanded our mental model of what was possible in education.”
“With this fellowship I feel like innovation is not just a word! We are encouraged in every aspect of our work and life to combat the status quo, and that is something so powerful and moving that I have not experienced in any other education setting. We are challenged to design new schools and not just revise the methods of old ones.”
- In Person Residencies
- Monthly Online Programming
- National School Visits
- Mentor & Advisor Support
Our fellows are passionate visionaries on a quest to ideate, create, innovate, test, and iterate upon their human-centered school models, all in service of building dynamic and transformative deeper learning communities that hold equity at their core.
Address
Office of Admissions
High Tech High
Graduate School of Education
2150 Cushing Road
San Diego CA 92106
Contact
Contact us if you have questions about any of our programs.
(619) 398-4902