What is the training and support provided for Fisher Fellows and Miles Family Fellows?
During the Fisher Fellowship year, Fisher Fellows experience an intensive summer program of coursework, residencies at high-performing schools, individualized leadership coaching, and training conferences to prepare for school start-up work in their communities. The coursework in the summer covers instructional, organizational, and operational leadership, and the classes are taught by esteemed leadership and education professors, KIPP school leaders, and members of the KIPP Foundation. The residencies place Fisher Fellows in high-performing KIPP schools to observe and participate in their leadership and operation. Training conferences and meetings throughout the year help Fisher Fellows develop and finalize their school design plans so that they are ready to open a KIPP school in their communities. The Miles Family Fellowship is a two-year pathway to becoming a KIPP school leader. Miles Family Fellows will be employed by KIPP schools to teach and to perform administrative duties that a
