Overview

The Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model (SAM) is made possible through the generosity of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Department of Education. Jointly developed by New Visions for Public Schools and the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Baruch College, CUNY, this collaboration with the NYC Leadership Academy is an approach to comprehensive school reform that seamlessly integrates school improvement with leadership capacity building, teacher professional development, and succession planning.

Goals & Objectives

SAM employs an apprenticeship model in which cohorts of participants from selected schools are partially released from their responsibilities in order to learn and practice the skills required for effective leadership. The program’s goal is to strengthen current leadership capacity within each participating school, as well as to develop a viable succession pipeline for staff.

The SAM program aims to put into play within each school a critical mass of strategically placed change agents who:

> Work independently and in teams
> Share a common language and goals
> Share a common approach
> Think from a systemic perspective to address problems and their underlying cause.


New Visions for Public Schools - 320 W. 13th Street - New York - NY 10014 - phone. 212-645-5110 - fax. 212-645-7409