The Summer 2025 Interschool Leadership Institute is canceled. We are taking the time to rebuild and re-tool.

Though I know this may be disappointing to hear, this was not a decision arrived at lightly. The significant changes in our team have created an opportunity to take a step back and take a look at our program. With the summer off and new voices in the conversation, we will spend time in the lab with our program, and think about what the future holds. First on the docket is to examine what form ILI 2.0 can take, one of the most persistent requests we have gotten from alums in the last few years. Rest assured that we are listening, and we are excited to have the time to think together.

Stay Tuned,
Eric Osorio
ILI Director

Home: Welcome

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ILI Faculty: Noni Thomas Lopez "Building Leadership Capacity"

ILI Founder Noni Thomas Lopez talks about how ILI adds value to schools and to individuals. https://www.ilinyc.org/ Educators of color developing themselves to be leaders in independent schools will need finely honed intellectual and management skills, but transformational leaders are also skilled at managing their emotions and their relationships with people. The purpose of the Interschool Leadership Institute (ILI) is to provide professional development for educators of color looking to grow their social and emotional IQ and to support the next generation of leaders of color in independent schools.

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ILI Faculty: Eric Osorio "Relationships and emotional intelligence"

ILI Director and Core Faculty member Eric Osorio talks about the human resources participants can expect at the Institute. https://www.ilinyc.org/ Educators of color developing themselves to be leaders in independent schools will need finely honed intellectual and management skills, but transformational leaders are also skilled at managing their emotions and their relationships with people. The purpose of the Interschool Leadership Institute (ILI) is to provide professional development for educators of color looking to grow their social and emotional IQ and to support the next generation of leaders of color in independent schools.

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ILI Faculty: Aléwa Cooper #ILIFamily

ILI Core Faculty member Aléwa Cooper talks about the atmosphere at the Institute. https://www.ilinyc.org/ Educators of color developing themselves to be leaders in independent schools will need finely honed intellectual and management skills, but transformational leaders are also skilled at managing their emotions and their relationships with people. The purpose of the Interschool Leadership Institute (ILI) is to provide professional development for educators of color looking to grow their social and emotional IQ and to support the next generation of leaders of color in independent schools.

About ILI

Educators of color developing themselves to be leaders in independent schools will need finely honed intellectual and management skills, but transformational leaders are also skilled at managing their emotions and their relationships with people.

The purpose of the Interschool Leadership Institute (ILI) is to provide professional development for educators of color looking to grow their social and emotional IQ and to support the next generation of leaders of color in independent schools. While parts of the Institute will be dedicated to developing nuts-and-bolts management skills, the bulk of our work will be engaging in dialogue with each other and experts in fields of education, psychology, and organizational leadership to better understand ourselves in our relationships to others in the workplace. Our goal at ILI is to support educators of color in developing the resilience, the problem-solving strategies, and the leadership skills that will make you more effective at enhancing your experience of your work environment for yourself as well as your students, parents, and colleagues.