Building Excellent Schools is excited to announce that applications are available for its Inaugural Summer Leaders Internship (SLI). The Building Excellent Schools SLI seeks outstanding graduate students who wish to develop leadership capacity and enter into the pathway for school leadership within the BES Fellowship. Over a summer, BES Summer Interns work with excellent schools rooted in the study of the nation’s strongest urban charter schools and receive significant practice-based training from the expert staff at Building Excellent Schools. The Summer Interns will take part in an 5-week intensive that combines purposeful study of what it takes to lead a no excuses charter school with a residency within an excellent school. At the conclusion of the summer, Summer Interns receive offers to enter into the flagship, full-year BES Fellowship which will begin at the conclusion of their graduate study, in August of the following year.

The BES Summer Leaders Internship runs between May 29th, 2012 and June 30th, 2012.

Qualified individuals are currently enrolled in graduate school and wish to spend their final summer preparing to enter into the Building Excellent Schools Fellowship. The Summer Leaders Internship program will select individuals based on the selection criteria for the BES Fellowship. Please review those criteria under the Fellowship page.

The application is the same as the BES Fellowship, which includes a three step process: introductory information, a resume upload and six essay questions. There are two deadlines: January 15th, 2012 and March 15th, 2012. However, all applications will be reviewed on a rolling and urgent basis. Serious applicants should apply now. For any immediate questions, please contact Annie Kurdziel, Director of Talent and Recruitment at akurdziel@buidingexcellentschools.org.