Build Your Leadership

Expand Your Impact

The Nashville Aspiring School Leader Fellowship develops and supports a diverse cohort of future school leaders to expand educational equity for children in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Your experience leading classrooms has transformed you.

You are passionate about expanding opportunities for children, and now you want to continue your impact as a school leader pursuing equity and accelerating change.

TFA Alumni have demonstrated what is possible for Nashville.

For the past 10 years, TFA alumni educators have been rated among the most effective in the state

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Alumni leading schools across middle Tennessee and Chattanooga.

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8 out of 10 of the non-selective highest performing schools in Nashville were led by a Teach For America alumnus

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Fellows in new mid-level leadership roles after joining the program.

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Today in Nashville, only 15% of students attend a school considered high performing, but Teach For America alumni are working with our community to reimagine opportunity.

We believe that when kids have great teachers positive outcomes follow.

But that is just the start. In order to enact true, lasting change, we must address the systemic problems with systemic solutions.

Entire schools and school systems have proven it’s possible to dramatically alter student outcomes when the right leaders are in place. The Nashville Aspiring School Leader Fellowship aims to continue that legacy.

Build your leadership to expand your impact.

Through the 2 year fellowship you will:

Earn your administrator credentials and M.Ed. or E.Ds. through Lipscomb University, one of the Tennessee’s top-rated educator preparation programs.

Gain hands-on leadership experience developing teachers and driving student outcomes at Teach For America Nashville-Chattanooga’s pre-service teacher training.

Receive ongoing mentorship from experienced, effective school leaders, and receive career and job placement support in pursuit of leadership roles within Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Program Timeline

January

March

April

2023

Year 1

May

August

March

Application Opens

Application Closes

Final Interviews

Cohort 2023 Announced

Lipscomb Courses Begin

Summer Training Planning Begins

July

August

2024

Year 2

Lead at Summer Teacher Training

Begin Lipscomb Year 2

December

May

Earn ILL-B & EdS

Fellowship Complete

Eligibility & Requirements

Candidates for the Fellowship should be eligible for hire by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Additionally, to be considered for the 2023 cohort of the Nashville Aspiring School Leader Fellowship, you must: