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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.

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Talent in Action

What does education mean to you?

August 15, 2018

Each year, EP cohorts around the nation leverage their diverse skill sets and their wealth of experience to explore education. Participating in small groups, EP Fellows design a project to examine or experience education issues through the critical lens of factors that impact access to high-quality education within the communities we serve. This year, through a series of pictures, EP Fellows in Denver captured why members of their 2018 cohort choose to work in the education sector and used that as a jumping off point for further discussion. Their reasoning behind the project? To inspire young...
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EP Updates

Bay Area Alumni and Champions Celebrate Scott Morgan

July 2, 2018

It started with an idea fueled by passion and people. Fifteen years later, Scott's vision of Education Pioneers continues to catalyze a network of thousands of Fellows, Alumni, Partners, and champions to make the education sector more equitable through leadership. Alumni and champions in the Bay Area gathered to thank Scott for 15 years of leadership and impact . (L - R: Brendan Cullen - early EP staff member; Gale Mondry - Chair of EP's Board of Directors; Melissa Wu - CEO of EP; Scott Morgan - Founder of EP; Doran Morgan, Scott's wife; Alexandra Bernadotte - EP Alumna, 2007; Jeff Kang - EP...
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EP Updates

Welcome Our Summer 2018 EP Fellows

June 28, 2018

Each summer, EP is thrilled to welcome the newest class of Pioneers into our nationwide network. In 2018 — our 15th anniversary year — more than 270 new Pioneers will join summer cohorts across the country, officially bringing our total EP network size to more than 4,000 leaders committed to advancing excellence and equity in education. Welcome, Pioneers! The Fellow Experience EP Fellows across the nation are kicking off their experiences by attending a two-day workshop with their new cohorts in June. On day one of “Opportunity Gap and School Systems,” Fellows are exposed to the root causes...

Recalling EP’s ‘Best Week Ever’

By Scott Morgan, June 22, 2018

As Scott Morgan, Founder of Education Pioneers, stepped down as CEO earlier this month, he has been sharing some reflections and memories from his 15 years of leadership at EP. In that spirit, here is a story he shared from EP’s first year. We celebrate EP’s birthday each year on June 16, the anniversary of my drive to Sacramento to file EP’s articles of incorporation back in 2003. But there’s another important milestone during EP’s first year of operation. It took place during the last week of March in 2004. Going into that week, I had worked closely with EP’s founding board members, Miguel...

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