The Encore Fellowship is a two-year coaching-informed and experienced-based fellowship that recruits early career educators (typically 2-4 years of experience) and asks them to commit themselves to teach in Detroit. Through Encore, fellows engage in adaptive coaching, expert-led high quality professional development on culturally responsive pedagogy and practice, instructional best practices for rigor and academic excellence, diversity, equity and inclusion, community building, and teacher leadership. Fellows will leave the program with the mindsets and skills necessary to lead transformational classrooms.

To be eligible for consideration for the Encore Fellowship, candidates must have:

• at least two years of experience as a teacher of record

• active teacher certification

• growth mindset and openness to ongoing feedback

• capacity to commit to all fellowship experiences, including quarterly weekend workshops and evening events, as well as school-based coaching activities 

PROGRAM PILLARS

Authentic & Impactful Leadership // We define authentic and impactful leadership as a leader’s ability to develop and act with self-awareness, create and invest others in a compelling mission and vision, build trusting relationships, and lead with vision and vulnerability.

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practices //  We define culturally responsive pedagogy and practices as pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of their learning and school experience. CRP is grounded in three fundamental pillars—academic achievement, cultural competence, and sociopolitical consciousness.

Systems Impact // We define systems impact as the ability of a leader to effect positive, measurable change within the system(s) in which they work, live, and exist.