Thank you for your interest in joining the maiden cohort of Yorks100 leaders.
Hopefully, by now, you've had a bit of time to learn more about our movement's ethos and been able to reflect on how well-placed you might be to move us towards our shared purpose of eradicating educational inequality in Yorkshire.
This form represents an opportunity for you to introduce yourself and your motivations for applying to join the programme.
But before we delve in, we want to acknowledge an immutable limitation of the humble application form: no matter how much time we spend designing its questions or you spend responding to them, it'll never capture the 'full picture' of who you are, where you've been, what you've done, why you did it, and what you've learnt along the way.
As such, we'd like you to think of this form less a full presentation and more as an introduction. So, it's relatively short.
We've got two goals in mind. First, to check for alignment. We've tried to be as clear as we can about who the programme's for and how it works; this form represents an opportunity to check that sits well with you.
Second, of course, we also want to check that your skills, qualities, and attributes match those detailed in previous correspondence. We'll have plenty of time to unpack the finer details with successful applicants during the assessment stage.
So, this form is broken up into three sections:
We'll ask for some personal details and contact information (for you, your sponsor and two references).
We'll ask for some information about your career to date. To save time, we'll ask you to copy + paste the key bits of your CV.
We'll pose three big questions and ask for three pithy answers—
how have you worked to close the disadvantage gap in your career to date? (300 words max.);
what one change would you like to make to the education system to make it fairer? (200 words max.);
why do you want to be a head teacher in Yorkshire (300 words max.)?Â
So, without further ado, let's begin.
If you have any questions along the way, please don't hesitate to drop us an email. We'll get back to you within 24 hours.
Good luck!