Our Mission, Vision, and Values

Leading With Trust

To ensure the Teaching Trust team is leading with Trust, we are committed to developing values and skills, first in ourselves and then in others. When we work with one another, our participants, and our community, we agree to publicly model Teaching Trust values and will ask others to hold us accountable if this does not occur. We believe trust is the necessary foundation required in order to be effective in fast-paced urban schools that are working to eliminate the achievement gap. Early survey results from aspiring and sitting principals show their shared belief that school leaders can only earn trust when they care for and influence others, and exhibit the competence to perform with a high degree of fidelity and achieve results.

Teaching Trust participants and their mentor principals have exceeded early expectations by building relational trust over the course of our programs across charter and district lines. The willingness to put aside ideological and structural differences to find solutions to problems is a distinct value-add of our program and, more important, a critical element of any next step in changing the trajectory of public education in this country.

Teaching Trust programs are based on a Competency Model grounded in research-based effective practices of transformational leaders. We developed this model to articulate the values and skills that leaders must have to drive high achievement for all students in the complex environments that characterize most urban schools today. We are aligning every facet of our organization, our people and programs, with these competencies.