School Design Fellowship – Overview

The School Design fellowship focuses on several high level elements within the process of Charter School Authorization. Those elements include Academic components, such as curriculum mapping and special education planning. Financial components, such as long term budgeting and financial policy and procedure. Operational components such as staff/student handbooks, staffing plans and leadership support.

The School Design Fellowship program has been the flagship program for the NACA Inspired Schools Network (NISN) since 2013 as a method of supporting communities who are looking to blaze new trails within contemporary Indigenous Education. Alongside the staff at NISN, School Design Fellows are supported for up to 3 years while developing a school design plan and through the first day of operations at their new community based school.

Note: The NISN School Design Fellowship is not currently accepting school design fellowship applicants. As we work diligently to further develop and strengthen relationships with our existing network schools, we are also working to continue developing our school design fellowship. Materials contained within the Fellowship tab of the NISN Indigenous Resource Hub are intended to serve as frameworks and examples for schools outside of the network who wish to utilize the strategies used by NISN School Design Fellows (Charter Authorization) and Network Schools (re-authorization).