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The schools have a new hand on deck in the quest to help teachers develop into leaders.
The school board has hired Alula Asfaw (pictured) as a consultant to the New Haven Public School Leadership Talent Initiative. The initiative includes a new “pipeline” by which teachers get groomed as “emerging leaders” and “future leaders,” and eventually administrators.
Asfaw will make $31,500 to work 100 hours a month from Nov. 19 to June 30, 2013. He was hired through private dollars from the Buck Foundation. He’s a contractor, not a public employee.
Originally from Seattle, Asfaw spent time in D.C. as a policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement. He said he focused on public-private partnerships promoting teacher effectiveness.
His contract is separate from the $53 million the city won in April from the federal government to support, develop, recognize and reward teachers and administrators.