Emerging Leaders Fellowship Application

Emerging Leaders Fellowship Application - Cohort 3

Thank you for your interest in The Mind Trust's Emerging Leaders Fellowship. The Emerging Leaders Fellowship gives talented educators the tools, resources, and coaching to level up their impact and become the next generation of leadership for Indianapolis schools. To learn more about the Fellowship experience, click here.
To be eligible for the Fellowship, candidates must be working in an Indianapolis charter or innovation network school and commit to staying at their school for three years while participating in the fellowship.

The deadline to submit the application and all supplemental materials is March 29, 2025 at 11:59PM EST.

If you have questions, please contact Luke Lennon at llennon@themindtrust.org.

First and Last Name

Phone Number

Job Title

School of Employment

The following questions will help us understand more about your current leadership and professional experience, with a focus on Results, Equity, and Values-Based Leadership. All questions have a 500 word count limit.

Results

How does a focus on results show up in your leadership?

Where have you fallen short and not achieved the results you wanted? What did you learn?

Where have you achieved strong results? What led to that accomplishment?

Equity

How does equity show up in your leadership?

What does it mean to have an "equitable school"?

Where have you fallen short in your equity journey? What did you learn?

Values-Based Leadership

Name a personal value you hold dear. Why is it important to you? How does it inform your leadership?

Name a professional value you hold dear. Why is it important to you? How does it inform your leadership?

How do you build relationships with people who have different values than you?

Why should you be an Emerging Leaders Fellow? What will you bring to the cohort that no one else will?

What should we know about you and your leadership that isn't captured by the above questions?

For Prior Applicants

Have you applied to the Emerging Leaders Fellowship before?

YesNo

How has your leadership changed in the last year?

How have you implemented the feedback you received from last year's application?

Supplemental Application Materials

Please upload each listed item below in the format requested.

Upload below: An up-to-date resume in PDF format.

Upload below: 2 professional letters of recommendation in PDF format. At least one letter needs to be from a leader in your current school of employment.

Upload below: A data worksheet that showcases your impact on either 1) student learning outcomes or 2) professional growth of colleagues you directly manage. Please provide a narrative around the data, explaining what the data illustrates and how you use the data to inform your decisions. This can be uploaded as an Excel or PDF.

Email separately: A video showcasing your leadership. Examples include: leading a team meeting, leading professional development, coaching a teacher or direct report, or leading a student event. Please send this via email as an mp4 file, link to a YouTube video, or link to Google Drive folder for download. Videos should be sent to Kurt Waywood at kwaywood@themindtrust.org.

Resume

First professional letter of recommendation

Second professional letter of recommendation

Data worksheet

Contact Information