Welcome to The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators
APPROACH
"Representation Matters”
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
While most leadership programs focus on technical skill development, we believe that adaptive leadership is truly the make-or-break differentiator. According to Boyatzis and Mckie’s book, Resonant Leadership, emotional Intelligence accounts for 85-90% of the difference between outstanding leaders and average their average peers. The 2018 Future Jobs Report conducted by the World Economic Forum identified emotional intelligence as one of the top 10 key skills both today and in the future. Finally, Google research found that EQ matters more than IQ or technical competence for becoming a successful manager. Research out of Columbia suggests the ROI on working to improve your EQ is far higher than that for working to get smarter.
Program Components
We envision three different fellowship tracks including Rising leaders (grade level chairs, teacher leaders, ops associates, department chairs), Senior leaders (assistant, principals, directors, principals, directors) and C-Level Leaders (executive directors, vice-presidents, presidents, c-suite leaders).
This one-year, all-inclusive leadership experience is designed to increase adult skill in order to increase student outcomes—grounded in our core model of management of self, management of others, and management of the work. Fellows strengthen emotional intelligence and self-awareness (self), build the capacity to coach, develop, and influence teams (others), and sharpen their ability to drive strategy, systems, and measurable results (the work). Throughout the year, they identify and dismantle internal and systemic barriers limiting their leadership and leave with a concrete growth plan directly tied to improving adult performance and student success. Representation matters—but representation paired with elite leadership skill transforms schools and systems.
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This is not theoretical leadership development. It is immersive, rigorous, and performance-driven. Through executive coaching, real-time scenario practice, strategic leadership intensives, and intentional brotherhood, Fellows learn to lead with clarity under pressure, strengthen team culture, and execute at a higher level. Organizations that sponsor Fellows gain stronger leadership bench depth, improved team effectiveness, and leaders better equipped to drive results. Funders invest in a proven multiplier: more than 95% of alumni remain in education, and over 50% are on track for promotion or have already advanced into higher-impact roles—expanding influence across schools, districts, and organizations. When adult leadership capacity rises, retention improves, culture strengthens, and student outcomes follow.
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Fellows do not just complete a program—they join a lifelong brotherhood of Black and Latino male leaders committed to one another’s growth and to delivering measurable results for the students and communities we serve.