Learn more about the KIPP Leadership Development Programs and what leadership development looks like at KIPP.
Towana Pierre-Floyd shares her vision for the school she plans to open next fall: Early College Academy at KIPP Renaissance High School. She reflects on travel experiences that shaped her, and looks forward to leading a school where students focus on values like excellence, global perspective and self-identity.
Lindsey Smith shares her vision for the school she plans to open next fall: KIPP Climb. She can’t wait for the voices of her students, parents, teachers, and community members to echo in the halls, all while students receive a world-class college-prep education. Hear more from Lindsey!
As KIPP has grown, we’ve learned that building a strong leadership team is essential to the success of a school. The job of leading a school is hard work, so we have grappled with the question: “Is there a set of behaviors that characterize successful leaders and help them not only create a great school, but sustain it and themselves over the long haul?”
Lisa Bonnifield, KIPP Fisher Fellow in Newark, NJ, is founding a new school and naming it KIPP BOLD. She aims to unlock a risk-taking, opportunity-chasing, grit-filled spirit in her future students. The question she keeps asking myself is, “how will we do that?”
By Ellen Sale, Fisher Fellow During my weeks of residency as a Fisher Fellow, training to open my own KIPP school, my wife kept track of my location with a…
A conversation between Karen E. Cox, Fulton County Public Schools, and David Jernigan, KIPP Metro Atlanta Karen Cox participated as a fellow in KIPP’s inaugural KIPP Leadership Design Fellowship (KLDF) cohort, which…
By Wheda Carletos, Fisher Fellow, KIPP Metro Atlanta I was in mid-conversation with a friend recently when she paused and then stated: “Wheda, you are married, you have three children,…