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Education Pioneers shares stories of impact, insights, ideas, and opinions to advance the conversation about what great leadership in education looks like.

What could a social impact fellowship do for your career?

By Elliot Luscombe, January 9, 2020

Whether you’re exploring a career move or already know the social impact sector is the place for you, fellowships offer you an opportunity to: Stretch your skills into a new sector and gain meaningful leadership experience through high-impact, mission-driven work Grow your knowledge of the sector and yourself. Explore leadership competencies and identity frameworks that are relevant regardless of sector through cohort-based professional development. Build important connections among your cohort of peers and sector experts that you’ll meet via programming. This network will be instrumental to...
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Giving Tuesday 2019

December 3, 2019

Ready. Set. Go. Today is Giving Tuesday! It is a global day of giving back to the causes you care about. Support our #GivingTuesday Campaign today: Donate now on our website or via our fundraiser on Facebook (they’re matching dollar for dollar!) Share why you care about & support EP with your family & friends (here’s a handy toolkit to get started). Money raised will support EP’s work to close the opportunity gap by attracting and developing talented, equity-minded professionals to lead and implement critical policies and practices that positively impact students, schools, and...
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Education Pioneers 2019 Annual Report

By Melissa Wu, November 25, 2019

Dear Friends, It is with great pride that we share our 2019 Annual Report. This was a pivotal year for EP, an inflection point to position us for an even stronger future. We are excited to share the story of our journey with you. Thank you to those who have contributed to our impact along the way. We ended our fiscal year clearer than ever on the need for our work and where we can grow. Building leadership capacity in education is more important than ever. By attracting talented professionals to the sector and advancing their readiness for leadership, we’re catalyzing the collective effort...

Next Impact Fellowship Cohort Begins This Week

By Kennidy Asche, November 7, 2019

The talented professionals chosen to participate in the selective, 10-month EP Impact Fellowship are creative problem solvers, data analysts, and strategic thinkers who are eager to put their skills to work for school districts, charter management organizations, state education agencies, and other major organizations working in public education on behalf of our nation’s highest-need students. EP provides participants with the knowledge, resources, and network to accelerate their work which ensures that their 10-months are impactful for both the education sector and the individual’s career...
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Talent in Action

Spotlight: Lauren, Data Fellow at Racine Unified & Higher Expectations

By Elizabeth Erickson, October 22, 2019

Our partners at Higher Expectations originally posted this story on their website. In 2019, we collaborated with Racine Unified to bring a data fellow from Education Pioneers , a national education leadership development program, into our work. This was one of the first times Education Pioneers placed a fellow in Wisconsin. Our Data Fellow, Lauren Marinoff, closes her year working with us this week so we wanted to take the time to reflect on the great work she has accomplished this year. Education Pioneers identifies high-potential leaders from different sectors early in their careers and...

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