Education Pioneers seeks to transform the American education system through policy- and practice-based, sweeping education reform initiatives pushed by their highly groomed, diverse corps of education leaders and policy makers.
Focused on attracting top talent from a spectrum of professions from outside the classroom, they train new leaders to help direct, manage, and transform our public education system. They aim to dramatically improve American schools by creating a broad, deep bench of new education visionaries, preparing and supporting them to improve upon the performance of existing key education organizations and affect significant change upon the entire education system.
Education Pioneers partners with more than 130 organizations in seven cities, including school districts, charter school organizations, and education nonprofits. While these entities are making tremendous strides on behalf of students, they benefit from additional business, management, and policy expertise, often lacking the capacity and resources to recruit cross-industry talent on their own. By matching these organizations with the best and brightest emerging leaders from business, law, policy, and education, Education Pioneers offers Partner organizations an efficient, effective solution to secure top talent, accelerate strategic initiatives, and make significant advances.
During the course of their Fellowships, Education Pioneers Fellows provide focused, professional work on mission-critical projects that immediately increases Partner organizations' rate of reform. To inform their work, Fellows also participate in professional development sessions, designed to optimize their skills in the context of K-12 education. Within this forum, Fellows dialogue with multi-disciplinary cohorts, providing an invaluable range of perspectives on the complexity of education. Each year, Education Pioneers receives over 90% good or excellent ratings from Fellows and Partners. Approximately two out of three Education Pioneers alumni continue to work full-time in the field of education following graduate school.
To date, Education Pioneers has identified more than 1,200 emerging leaders - including managers, analysts, lawyers, and policy experts - and placed them with more than 130 leading education organizations nationwide. In less than a decade, their Fellows have contributed hundreds of thousands of hours of critical consulting work to transform teaching and learning results in our schools. By the end of their first decade they expect to have impacted more than 3.6 million students.
With the expectation that their network of leaders will grow to more than 10,000 by 2020, Education Pioneers is and will continue to stand at the vanguard of transforming education in our nation, developing highly skilled leaders and connecting them with the most impactful initiatives and promising organizations to fulfill their missions.
