Diversifying Early Education Leadership Fellowship- Cohort 3 Fellow Application
Thank you for your interest in applying for Cohort 3 of the DEEL Fellowship! Please complete and submit this application in full by August 29, 2025. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance soon after. The DEEL Fellowship is available at no cost to participants thanks to the generosity of the William Penn Foundation. Please see our website for more details (https://education.temple.edu/create/deel).
Contact & Demographic Information
Name
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First Name
Last Name
Email
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Phone Number
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Address
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Street Address
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Please share your preferred pronouns.
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How would you describe your racial and/or ethnic identity?
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What is your current workplace?
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What is your current position/title/role within your workplace?
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ECE Profession Information
Please list any prior positions you have held in the early childhood education field.
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Please describe the education institutions you have attended below.
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Please describe your responsibilities in your current position.
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If applicable, please share any special projects you are currently working on.
Please describe your professional goals for the next 5 years
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What are your strengths as a leader, and what skills or dispositions are you still working on?
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If you had a magic wand and could make one impactful change in ECE in Philadelphia (other than increasing the amount of money available!), what would you do?
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What would you most like to learn and/or take away from the DEEL Fellowship? Are there particular areas/topics related to ECE that you would like to learn more about?
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References & Submission Confirmation
Please share the names and contact information (phone and email) for three professional references who can speak to your expertise.
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Please confirm (by checking off the box) that you are prepared to take on the following features of the DEEL Fellowship:
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Involvement from Fall 2025 through Spring 2027
Monthly seminars at Temple (in-person and virtual)
Three graduate courses at Temple
Interning with a local ECE partner organization (One half-day or full-day per month)
Leadership coaching (4 one-hour sessions over the course of several months)
Willingness/ability to accept stipends and provide the necessary paperwork associated with the DEEL Fellowship engagement
Please indicate below if there are any weekday evenings when you would be unavailable to attend monthly seminars (will occur in-person on Temple's campus or virtual via Zoom).
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Thank you for your interest! We will follow up with any additional questions. If you have any questions for us, please share them below and we will get back to you. To submit, please click the SUMBIT APPLICATION button below.
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