Building Relationships & Influencing Others/Community Building
A policy and advocacy position might require you to:
- Recommend policy and convey ideas to wide array of audiences
The Fellowship has prepared you to do these tasks because as a Fellow you have:
- Communicated lessons, concepts, and objectives to families, students, teachers, and colleagues
- Effectively engaged a range of opinions in a multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual, and dynamic community
Leadership, Initiative, & Problem Solving
A policy and advocacy position might require you to:
- Balance multiple research projects with different deadlines for which you must develop a vision and create your own timeline
- Understand the ebb and flow of changing policy and respond to setbacks
The Fellowship has prepared you to do these tasks because as a Fellow you have:
- Developed and executed a vision for projects that enhance the effectiveness of program elements
- Balanced your responsibilities to your campus role with teaching kids, supporting apprenticeships, and working at a morning partnership
- Overcame numerous challenges and learned from failure
- Figured out how to best use limited resources
Instructional Skills and Instincts:
A policy and advocacy position might require you to:
- Sift through and prioritize applications for grant funding based on quality of content
- Understand the pedagogical basis of policy recommendations and summarize findings of research papers
The Fellowship has prepared you to do these tasks because as a Fellow you have:
- Implemented objective-based instruction in the classroom and trainings for fellow staff members, which will give perspective on identifying priorities and measuring the challenges of implementation
- Worked directly with curricula and employed differentiated techniques to teach students with different learning styles
