NextWave Empowerment

About NextWave

Ashley Jeffrey is the founder and CEO of NextWave Empowerment. She is dedicated to helping Black, Brown, and queer youth by working with adults who interact with them most: educators. As an administrator, strategist, and grassroots organizer, Ashley is deeply committed to helping school leaders shift policies and practices to increase stakeholder support.

NextWave Empowerment was born from a DEEP desire for adults to share power with and respect the lived expertise of our "next wave" of leaders - our students. Through customized strategies, NWE helps shift traditional school settings from a model where students are led - to one where they are empowered to LEAD.

We collaborate with educators to build staff buy-in and modify organizational structures while working with students to co-design their education to improve both teacher and student engagement.

The next wave of leaders needs us so check out our services below so you can help them too!

1. Evaluate - Contact NWE through this form and share about your current needs.

2. Connect - NWE and assigned school leaders set up video call to delve into specifics.

3. Intake - School leader(s) provide NWE with relevant student and staff data.

4. Site visit - NWE staff visit school to gather insight of day-to-day operations.

5. Analyze - NWE and school leader(s) coordinate video call for data analysis & recommendations for at least two concrete initiatives

Deliverables can include: strategic plans, leadership development workshops, stakeholder engagement programs

What we do:

What we've done:

1. At a charter high school: built school-wide buy-in to create a teacher's assistant program aligning students with classrooms based on college interests (i.e. future English major with English teacher)

2. At a charter high school: established an AI advisory group with students, teachers, and administrators to develop AI policy and test new AI technology

3. At a private high school: partnered with alumni, current parents and staff, and current students to shift school policies and practices to improve racial equity

4. At a charter high school: incorporated students into planning and participation in professional development meetings and instructional coaching sessions

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