“Our Fellow’s work to develop our per-pupil funding formula for schools and to create a simple, user-friendly budget planning tool for principals will serve as the foundation for how we allocate and plan resources for our schools for years to come.”

Jeff Kang, Project Officer, Office of the CFO, Prince George’s County Public Schools

Become a Partner: Graduate School Fellowship  

For the 2011 Graduate School Fellowship:

  • 94% of Partners rated the overall quality of Fellows' work as excellent or good.
  • 92% of Partners rated the quality of the final product delivered as excellent or good.
  • 90% of Partners strongly agreed or agreed that Fellows' skill sets were aligned with their projects.

The 10-week summer Graduate School Fellowship provides our Partners with the best and brightest graduate school students from our nation's top business, education, policy and law programs who have the skills and experience to advance and complete strategic initiatives during a focused timeframe.  In many cases, our Fellows' 10-week projects provide frameworks to guide organizations for a year or more.

Cost: $10,000. ($7,000 stipend to Fellow for 10 weeks of full-time work, and a $3,000 Partner fee to Education Pioneers.)

Our Partners estimate that it would cost them nearly 50% more to identify, recruit, and compensate a 10-week consultant with a skill set similar to that of one of our Fellows.

Commitments:

  • Partners provide a well-scoped, mission-critical project and experienced supervisor for a high-achieving graduate student.  Past Fellows' projects have included:

            o Managing a $600,000 charter school facility renovation

            o Analyzing teacher retention and creating teacher retention strategy

            o Developing strategic plans and curriculum

            o Performing financial and student achievement data analyses

  • Partners actively participate in and contribute to the Education Pioneers experience
  • Partners complete and submit Partner Application and Partnership Agreement for each of the desired Fellowship programs by the stated deadlines*

Graduate School Fellowship Timeline:

 Timeline 
* Check with your local Education Pioneers contact for partnership availability beyond these dates.