3.+Strengths

= **Top 5 Strengths of the Program as Outlined in the Document Provided** =

Team #1: A. Clear identified training curriculum and plan. B. Having a network of collegaues, both reginonally and nationally. We can collaborate across organizations. We can seek support from each other. Fellows will be able to break down barriers between the charter and traditional public school secotrs. C. Acknowledgement of the idea that there is a lack of leadership at the top of education organizations. It is a concious and straegic on purpose. D. The opportunity is presented specifically to identify leaders of color. And setting leaders up for success, rather than sending them in to a position that they are not prepared for and then if they don't have immediate success, they don't have a network to support them in their areas of need. E. Having the opportunity to follow up with a pathway after the trainging through the academy. Fellows have the opportunity to be funded, but graduates who do not want or are not able to launch a new charter school, that they have other opportunities to move into the education sector. F. Offers a national perspective to what is happening in schools and school reform. G. Stressing the idea of having a cultural connection to their kids. H. The concept that the program needs to address this idea of the staff not relating to the students. Not being dependent on the "kindness of strangers". J. Scalability of the academy. Linking graduates with coaches/mentors.

Team #2: 1. Opprtunity for enterperneurships 2. Executive Coaching 3. Creating a pipeline for minority leaders 4. Building relationships 5. Empowering leaders of color

Team #3: