Who is PSi for? 

PSi invites interest and applications from individuals who are:

• Emerging school and nonprofit leaders who are ready for the next step

• Experienced and creative educators willing to take risks and challenge the status quo

• Open-minded thinkers committed to engaged learning and racial justice

• Working professionals eager to join a network

• Individuals who are passionate about creative leadership, whether they self-identify as an artist or not

• Engaged community members, advocates, and organizers

PSi develops leaders from the perspective of
3 Lenses

1. Art—accessing inspiration and utilizing creativity, design thinking, risk taking, and experimentation to solve complex problems; artists persist and consider, refine, and illuminate many different approaches.

2. Education—committed to racial justice and equity, and informed and driven by research and data; drawing upon a deep knowledge of child and adolescent development; and applying a profound understanding of theories of learning to prepare students for academic and personal success.

3. Community-Based Leadership—employing a culturally competent understanding of the needs of youth and families in a given community to engage effectively in a dynamic collaborative process of community growth, development, networking and organizing. 

PSi's 7 Key Leaderhsip Practices

• Anti Racism—Continually expanding our ability to recognize racism and interrupt it in ourselves, others, policies, and systems; centering voices of the global majority, and learning from individuals as well as scholarship for racial justice.

• Community Mobilization—Advocating and organizing for systemic change; convening the community around common values, a common mission, and a dynamic strategy.

• Continuous Reflection—Seeking the community’s expertise and growing in self-knowledge by consciously considering our own experiences, actions, feelings, and responses, and our impact on the individuals, groups, and systems in which we engage and lead; broadening this reflection to accurately and continually diagnose the dynamic needs of those individuals, groups, and systems.

• Creativity—Engaging, risking, experimenting, and persisting; using a design thinking approach to address complex challenges.

• Effective Communication—Listening and communicating regularly, proactively, clearly, and inspirationally to engage hearts and minds for action.

• Ethics—Exhibiting moral courage; practicing sound management and transparency; embracing human imperfection and uncertainty in the service of justice.

• Responsive & Inspired Instructional Leadership—Practicing a deep commitment to the academic, intellectual, social, emotional, civic, and professional development of youth and adults by consciously building an organic and interwoven learning environment for all members of the community, one that embraces disequilibrium, humility, curiosity, purpose, and joy.