THE BROAD CENTER FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL SYSTEMS
www.broadcenter.org
The mission of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems is to raise student achievement by recruiting, training and supporting executive leadership talent from across America to become the next generation of urban school district leaders. The Broad Center identifies talented leaders from education, business, the military, nonprofit organizations and government who have the passion, knowledge and skills to take on executive leadership roles in urban education. The Broad Center operates two leadership development programs: The Broad Superintendents Academy and The Broad Residency in Urban Education.

THE BROAD SUPERINTENDENTS ACADEMY
www.broadacademy.org
Created in 2002, The Broad Superintendents Academy is a rigorous, ten-month executive management training program designed to prepare experienced leaders from business, education, military, government and nonprofit sectors with the critical skills needed to lead our nation's largest urban school districts. The Broad Superintendents Academy, one of the most selective superintendent preparation programs in the country, and the only one that recruits non-educators, covers topics such as planning and leading systems change, improving student achievement, using data for decision-making and implementing best practices from the public and private sectors.

THE BROAD RESIDENCY IN URBAN EDUCATION
www.broadresidency.org
The Broad Residency in Urban Education is a two-year management development program that immediately places emerging, talented private sector leaders into full-time managerial positions--"medical style" residencies, in urban school districts or charter management organizations throughout the country. Graduates from top business, law and public policy schools, with at least four years of work experience participate in a series of professional development sessions while working full-time in school district central offices on major projects such as leading district budgeting processes, improving the management of human resources and opening new schools.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
www.cps.k12.il.us
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) receives support from The Broad Foundation for the creation of performance data dashboards--information-rich data portals that will provide school leaders, regional superintendents and central office administrators with the critical data they need to evaluate performance and make informed decisions. CPS dashboards are interactive data reports that provide critical performance information in a public and accessible manner to all levels of the organization. The creation of the dashboards will push the culture of data-driven decision making to all levels of the organization. These dashboards are part of CPS's overall efforts to create a top quality performance management system that will affect all aspects of the district--including schools and central office.

CHILDREN FIRST IMPLEMENTATION IN NEW YORK CITY
www.nycenet.edu
In New York City, all public school principals have the power to choose the academic support that best meets the unique needs of their staff and students. This decision-making power is a key element of the New York City Department of Education's "Children First" school reforms--efforts to transform a top down decision-making system into one that empowers the department's 1,450 principals and holds them accountable for ensuring that all students make academic progress. Together with the Robertson Foundation and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, The Broad Foundation provides support to enhance internal and external communication efforts and help implement the new accountability system, the backbone of the entire reform initiative.

DISTRICT TRANSFORMATION IN OAKLAND
webportal.ousd.k12.ca.us/index.aspx
The Oakland Unified School District is undergoing significant organizational transformation to further improve student achievement. The transformation includes two key elements: (1) moving to create a set of new, smaller, more autonomous schools and (2) developing a new district operating model that complements this strategy. The district, with support from The Broad Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and several local funders, is developing a much leaner and customer-service focused central office that devolves responsibility and greater budget authority to schools and uses a fee-for-service model to provide services to schools. The project is funding dramatic changes in district and school leadership, school creation and closure, technology systems, organizational redesign, and outreach and communications--all to drive improvements in student achievement. Over the past few years, Oakland's student achievement rates are improving faster than the 10 other major urban districts in California.

DISTRICT TRANSFORMATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
www.k12.dc.us
The Broad Foundation supports two projects in the District of Columbia Public Schools that will begin the transformation of the district into a high-performing organization. The first is a fiscal audit to help balance the budget and identify opportunities to increase school-level funding. The second is a strategic planning effort to help the district successfully start the school year and build a foundation for a performance-oriented culture.

EDUCATION PIONEERS
www.educationpioneers.org
The Broad Foundation supports the expansion of Education Pioneers, a nonprofit that recruits, trains and places top graduate students from leading business, law and public policy programs in summer positions in urban school districts, educational nonprofits and charter management organizations in five cities across the country. Education Pioneers' goal is to develop a national corps of leaders committed to reforming urban public education. With The Broad Foundation's support, Education Pioneers will more than triple its class size to almost 200 Fellows by 2008 and will expand to additional cities nationwide.

HUMAN RESOURCE REINVENTION IN BOSTON
www.boston.k12.ma.us
Boston Public Schools has made significant strides to manage its human capital more efficiently and effectively. The Broad Foundation, in partnership with other national and local foundations, supported Boston's use of new human resource technology systems, improvements to the hiring and on-boarding processes for new teachers, and the creation of a strong culture of customer service in the district. The district's HR department has launched a new customer-oriented model for the central office, which is used as a model for other central office departments. The HR department now is rated the second highest in the district's annual customer satisfaction survey.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CHICAGO
www.hci.cps.k12.il.us
The Broad Foundation supports Chicago Public Schools' implementation of a human capital management system that will help the district support, attract and retain high-quality teachers, principals and other employees. The integrated, state-of-the-art software system will help the human resource department leverage quality data to drive decision-making, devote less time to non-value-added manual transactions and dedicate more time to strategic thinking, problem-solving and better service.

TRANSFORMING HUMAN RESOURCES IN NEW YORK CITY
www.nycenet.edu/default.aspx
The Broad Foundation supported the New York City Department of Education as it dramatically improved how it manages its human capital. Initially, the effort consisted of several design components: organizational and process redesign of the human resources function; changing the hiring calendar; implementing PeopleSoft and valuing employees. With the help of Mercer HR Consulting, the department has implemented a new HR operating model, including launching a new organization design, changing business processes, upgrading technology systems and changing the culture of human resources. The Broad Foundation has joined with other national foundations to fund this effort.

STRATEGIC DISTRICT PLANNING SUPPORT
www.cgcs.org
The Broad Foundation supports efforts by superintendents and districts to evaluate their current operational or instructional processes and capacities for change. In conjunction with the Council of Great City Schools, The Broad Foundation provides strategic planning support to districts by bringing together practitioner-expert teams to intensively review one or more of the district's operational or instructional areas. The practitioner-expert teams interview key district leaders, gather and analyze historical information and make strategic, research-based recommendations to the superintendent on how to best improve the district.