• Our Mission & Values
• Our Strategy & Impact
• Our Programs
• The Power of Our Network
• Alumni in Action

Our Strategy & Impact  

Education Pioneers is the key to attract the top talent needed outside the classroom to help lead, manage, and transform our public education system.

Creating a system of great schools across the country is a massive challenge.  It's also possible: proof exists that urban schools can defy dismal statistics.  But pockets of excellence aren't enough; great schools must be the norm.  We urgently need more top talent at all levels to accelerate excellence and ensure high student achievement and a thriving public education system.

Education Pioneers aims to dramatically improve American schools by creating a broad, deep bench of new education leaders, preparing and supporting these leaders to lead, and improving the performance of key education organizations to transform the entire education system.

Education Pioneers partners with more than 130 organizations in seven cities, including school districts, charter school organizations, and education nonprofits, that are making tremendous strides on behalf of students, but are also hungry for business, management, and policy expertise, and often lack 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 quantum leaps forward. 

Impact

During the course of their Fellowships, Education Pioneers Fellows provide focused, exceptional work on mission-critical projects that immediately increases Partner organizations' capacity for and pace of reform.  To inform their work, Fellows also participate in professional development sessions, where they learn to optimize their skills in the context of K-12 education, and dialogue with multi-disciplinary cohorts that provide an invaluable range of perspectives on the complexity of education.

Representative, in race and background, of the communities they serve, Education Pioneers' leaders exemplify our core values of courage, optimism, collaboration, and action, and maintain a relentless focus on performance and results.  Collectively, they are gaining the skills and experience to manage multi-million dollar budgets, start and lead entrepreneurial initiatives, deploy programs to increase student achievement, and tackle day-to-day and big-picture challenges in the education system.

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, our 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 our first decade we expect to have impacted more than 3.6 million students.

With the expectation that our 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 to the most impactful initiatives and promising organizations to fulfill their missions.