New Leaders for New Schools created the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) to learn from educators driving achievement gains in high-need urban schools. EPIC identifies schools where students are making significant achievement gains, and, since 2006, has awarded over $15.5 million to EPIC partner districts and charter schools and led them in an examination of their practices, culminating in the publication of video cases on the online EPIC Knowledge System. New Leaders introduced the EPIC Leadership Development Model in 2009 as a way to make these practices more widely available to school leaders within and beyond the EPIC consortium. During the 2010–11 school year, REA evaluated pilots of the EPIC Model in the Friendship Public Charter Schools in Washington, DC, the Memphis City Schools, and the District of Columbia Public Schools. REA examined the EPIC model’s effectiveness, based on emerging local needs, and its impact on leadership practice, collaborating with EPIC to design instruments for use across sites, including session feedback forms, self-assessment surveys, and postsession and site-visit interview protocols.

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