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EdFuel’s July Newsletter is Here! Here’s what you can find in this month’s Fuel Report:

🗓️ Create your Strategic Talent Calendar in the Talent Hub

☀️ Details about EdFuel’s FREE Summer Services Opportunities

📓 New Blog Post: Planning for Strong Retention and Effective Onboarding Over the Summer

Read more here: https://buff.ly/4cTXyVb

Is your talent team prepared for the post-ESSER world 🌍 ? Our Summer Series will explore common challenges and equip you with the🛠️ tools and strategies you need to succeed🎯!

📣Join us for the first 60-minute virtual session, Navigating Talent Management After the ESSER Funding Cliff, at 1:30 EST on July 31.📣

📝Register today!
https://buff.ly/3SjNVXC

Check out ALL the sessions and add them to your calendar 📅 https://buff.ly/4diC8k6

It’s always great seeing friends and partners in our work to improve equitable and inclusive talent systems throughout the education sector!

📅 Did you know that the strongest candidates begin looking for new jobs in December? Let EdFuel support you in getting ahead of the game on recruiting a high-quality, diverse talent pool.

Discover more & schedule a call now! 📞 buff.ly/4cfXtL6 🔗

📊 Ready to transform your approach to compensation?

EdFuel creates customized compensation programs to enhance equity, employee satisfaction, and drive success. 💪🚀

Discover more & schedule a call now! 📞www.edfuel.org/contact 🔗

🎯EdFuel is ready to support you in designing an equitable and inclusive method for evaluating and managing toward high performance.

Discover more & schedule a call now! 📞 www.edfuel.org/contact 🔗

Our FREE Talent Calendar Workshop is next week! Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AoGYjbtWR3Cl87l3qWAD0A #/registration

📣Join us June 13 at 10 PT / 1 ET for a FREE, 90-minute, hands-on workshop to design your 2024-2025 Talent Calendar. 📣
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AoGYjbtWR3Cl87l3qWAD0A

With many schools anticipating a tough year ahead due to funding changes, it can be easy to shift focus exclusively to the urgent while losing sight of strategic initiatives.

Implementing a 📅 Talent Calendar 📅 is a major lever for keeping the strategic visible while enabling prioritized ex*****on on the urgent, positioning you to do the most impactful work at the right time.
💡 What is a Talent Calendar? https://bit.ly/about-talent-calendars💡
💡 Why a Talent Calendar? https://bit.ly/why-talent-calendars💡

Summer is the time to take a step back and re-imagine your Talent Calendar for the upcoming year!

In this 90-minute session, you’ll not only deep dive into the most effective strategies but also draft your own 2024-2025 calendar using our automated Talent Calendar tool (now in Beta!), leaving with a ready-to-implement plan.

Registration closes June 11!

📣Join us June 13 at 10 PT / 1 ET for a FREE, 90-minute, hands-on workshop to design your 2024-2025 Talent Calendar. 📣
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AoGYjbtWR3Cl87l3qWAD0A

With many schools anticipating a tough year ahead due to funding changes, it can be easy to shift focus exclusively to the urgent while losing sight of strategic initiatives.

Implementing a 📅 Talent Calendar 📅 is a major lever for keeping the strategic visible while enabling prioritized ex*****on on the urgent, positioning you to do the most impactful work at the right time.
💡 What is a Talent Calendar? https://bit.ly/about-talent-calendars💡
💡 Why a Talent Calendar? https://bit.ly/why-talent-calendars💡

Summer is the time to take a step back and re-imagine your Talent Calendar for the upcoming year!

In this 90-minute session, you’ll not only deep dive into the most effective strategies but also draft your own 2024-2025 calendar using our automated Talent Calendar tool (now in Beta!), leaving with a ready-to-implement plan.

Registration closes June 11!

Our Managing Partner, Kerri-Ann Nesbeth was in the Bay Area this week at the annual summit conference! It was great collaborating with fellow leaders and uncovering impact from innovative solutions — such as strategic staffing and the integration of generative AI — to increase equity, inclusion, and accelerate impact.

We’re leaving the Bay feeling HOPEFUL about schools’ ability to navigate the fiscal cliff while continuing to prioritize comprehensive and equitable talent management. 🙌

Attention all leaders!  It’s time to ensure your organization is compliant with the newest FLSA overtime regulations. Explore our informative guide and connect with EdFuel for personalized guidance and support. Read our resource and contact EdFuel today for customized assistance! bit.ly/EdFuelFLSA

Leaders, is your organization prepared for the latest FLSA overtime rules? 📷 Don’t wait until it’s too late! Check out our summary of the new rules and our customizable resources, and reach out to EdFuel for expert support. http://bit.ly/EdFuelFLSA

Word on the street is that the Department of Labor is increasing the overtime exempt threshold 👀👂

Don’t worry—we’re here to help you plan ahead, strategically and sustainably. We have a few more spots available for summer compensation support and planning. Click the link in our bio to chat with us and secure your spot today!

We’re deeply invested in the DC education sector—we’ve worked closely with several LEAs as they update their compensation systems to meet the OSSE pay transparency guidance. Click the link in our bio to schedule a call to discuss your needs and secure your spot for support from EdFuel by Monday, April 1st.

We’re deeply invested in the DC education sector—we’ve worked closely with several LEAs as they update their compensation systems to meet the OSSE pay transparency guidance. Visit https://bit.ly/4a68L2R to schedule a call to discuss your needs and secure your spot for support from EdFuel by Monday, April 1st.

It’s ! Our goal is to raise $50k in order to support more leaders with having access to innovative and equity-centered talent management tools to better recruit and retain staff. Whether you can give $5 or $5,000, please consider making a gift to support EdFuel’s work. Donate today at https://donorbox.org/edfuel2023

We’re excited to announce our participation in Giving Tuesday this year, with a goal of raising $50,000! Our goal is to raise funds to support more schools in developing innovative tools needed to build equitable and inclusive talent systems. To date, our services have helped over 250 schools, impacting more than 10,000 teachers and over 100,000 students. Learn more and donate next week (or today!) here: https://donorbox.org/edfuel2023

“From the very beginning, we felt passionate about developing the next generation of EdFuel leaders, knowing that in many ways our success would be defined by how prepared the organization was for its next phase.” - Kelly Gleischman, Outgoing Managing Partner

Kelly shares more about the journey to create our distributed leadership model and how we approached our succession planning work. Check out her thoughts about the road to get to where we are today and all of the lessons learned along the way at https://bit.ly/3JCeXVL

We have news! 📣 It’s officially time to pass the torch: Last September, Managing Partner Kelly Gleischman shared with EdFuel’s Board of Directors that after eight and a half years leading EdFuel, she will be stepping down as Managing Partner at the end of June. During her tenure, Kelly has led our organization to more than triple our impact on schools, districts, and nonprofits across the country, all while cultivating a deeply collaborative and sustainable culture for our team. We will miss Kelly greatly but cannot wait to support her in her next adventure!

We are also beyond thrilled to share that with enthusiastic and unanimous support from our Board of Directors, Kerri-Ann Nesbeth will become EdFuel’s next Managing Partner, effective July 1, 2023. 🎉 Over six years at EdFuel, Kerri-Ann has served in the roles of Director, Managing Director, and Partner, leading some of our most important internal initiatives and external engagements with partners. Kerri-Ann’s unique knowledge of school system needs, decisive leadership, and forward-thinking vision makes us confident in her ability to lead EdFuel into its next phase.

This transition marks the culmination of more than six years of intentional succession-planning led by EdFuel’s Partner team, which included Raven Freeman and Mary Mason Boaz, and supported by the full EdFuel Board of Directors, chaired by Jessica Cunningham Akoto. As a talent organization, we believe deeply in practicing what we support our partners to implement: equitable, inclusive practices that create a safe, sustainable, and supportive environment for team members to grow and develop. Our leadership team is comprised entirely of leaders who have grown from within EdFuel: in addition to Kerri-Ann, Kristina Campa-Gruca (Partner), Cortney Graham Ameckson (Managing Director of Finance and Operations), Rachel Nozari (Managing Director of Talent), and Nicole Pratt (Managing Director of Talent) have all served in multiple positions at EdFuel over the years.

This phenomenal group of women, in combination with our entire EdFuel team, has been supported to grow into these roles in preparation for leadership transition. Kelly, Raven, and Mary Mason intentionally sequenced their transitions over the course of the last year to make room for the next generation of EdFuel leaders to take the helm, allowing this transition to strengthen our organizational culture rather than detract from it. We are deeply grateful for their work and hope that we can continue to support other organizations with this type of succession-planning process.

Please join us today in celebrating both Kelly’s legacy and Kerri-Ann’s promotion. 🥳Our team couldn’t be more excited about the road ahead!

Join us for a Virtual Office Hours event! This session is for school leaders as well as operations, development, and talent staff as our expertise centers on fundraising and grants management, talent, and day-to-day operations.

The session will kick off with a brief introduction from each of our host experts. Please submit your questions regarding the operations, talent, and financing challenges your school is experiencing on your registration form as the event will conclude with topic-specific consulting from our panel of host experts. We look forward to supporting you! Register today by visiting https://bit.ly/3f6MmeU

Talent leaders are loving the Charter School Compensation Initiative: 100% have found the workshops to be valuable, 90% have learned something new and actionable. Here’s what one leader had to say! To Download the How-To Guides and Recorded Webinars visit www.edfuel.org/compensation.

We're again at EdFuel! We just posted a brand-new role that we couldn't be more excited about: Managing Director, Product Management.

The MD, Product Management is a senior role responsible for launching a new vertical at EdFuel focused on products and services and will drive the ex*****on of all product lifecycle processes. We're looking for a mission-driven, strategic leader with the skills required to lead a team of both technical and non-technical stakeholders to develop user-centered products and services.

Check out the position and please share widely! The deadline to apply is Sunday, July 31st at 11:59pm PST.

www.edfuel.org/careers

EdFuel is hiring for a new Director and we'd love your help in getting the word out! We are working hard to build a strong, diverse, and talented pool of individuals for the position. We're looking for folks who have talent system experience (recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, etc.) so if you know of anyone who might be a good fit, please share this post!

DIRECTOR

Directors are responsible for leading projects with a variety of different partners to develop and strengthen organizational talent systems and build the capacity of all leaders. We’re looking for someone who has a background in talent, is a systems thinker, is passionate about educational equity, and is excited to work for a nimble, deeply collaborative nonprofit start-up. This position reports directly to a Managing Director.

Interested applicants should visit https://www.edfuel.org/careers for application details.

For more information about EdFuel visit. www.edfuel.org

In this month's Talent Talks Blog post, Ashleigh Phillis, Director, discusses how school leaders can build commitment among their staff as soon as a new hire accepts an offer with a strong onboarding process. Ashleigh writes, "The lack of communication between newly hired teachers and school leaders can lead to uncertainty on both ends. By creating an onboarding process that includes an intentional cultivation phase that includes ongoing communication and touchpoints through the spring and summer, school leaders show their commitment to their new hires."

Check out her blog post, "How Staff Onboarding Can Build Commitment: Lessons from the Cleveland Guardians" on our Talent Talks Blog, and let us know your reactions!
www.edfuel.org/talent-talks-blog