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Providing Texans with the tools they need to find, use and amplify their voices and the voices of their communities on state education policy.
Raise Your Hand Texas’ Community Leaders Fellowship is the premiere program within the organization’s Education Advocacy Academy.
The Raise Your Hand Texas Community Leaders Fellowship is an 18-month program designed to equip teams aligned with local independent school districts with skills to effectively advocate for public education in their own communities.
Each local community’s perspective is critically important to state lawmakers.
The program focuses on building a deep understanding of public education and the legislative processes, while also teaching valuable skills in listening and community engagement.
Raise Your Hand Texas is proud to announce 32 grant awardees to its inaugural cohort of the Community Leaders Fellowship. These Fellowship participants represent school districts with enrollments ranging from 500 to 50,000, each with its own unique needs and concerns. Together, they all want to do more for their students and communities.
The following school districts have been selected as Grant Awardees for Cohort 1 of the Raise Your Hand Texas Community Leaders Fellowship:
Through a mix of in-person, virtual, and self-paced sessions, Community Leaders Fellows will learn how to communicate and advocate for meaningful and sustainable change. The program covers key topics:
Fellowship participants may include parents, educators, and business leaders with a passion for public education.
The Fellowship empowers teams to become stronger public education leaders in your community, shaping the future of your local school district and hometown.
The Raise Your Hand Texas Community Leaders Fellowship is the next evolution of our advocacy training, building upon the success of the Trustee Advocates Program. Launched in January 2022, Raise Your Hand Texas’ Trustee Advocates Program included 15 graduates.
The new collaborative model of the Fellowship is unique, creating powerful local teams to support Texas schools. If you are an alumnus of the Trustee Advocate Program, we strongly encourage you to build a team to apply and help lead this deeper, community-based work.
