EP Updates

This has been a tough summer for our nation – and our team at Education Pioneers – following the fatal shootings of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, five police officers in Dallas, and three police officers in Baton Rouge. These events have caused great anguish and outrage here at EP. And I can only begin to imagine how difficult this summer has been for families, children, and communities of color, and for all of those who have lost loved ones. Following a recent EP Town Hall meeting, a diverse group of EP staff,...

One of the most exciting (and fastest-growing) leadership programs at Education Pioneers is our Visiting Fellowship, which allows non-instructional leaders in education to participate in our intense, 10 weeks of programming along with a cohort of EP Fellows. Late last year, we received a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund to increase the number of our Visiting Fellows as part of their Diverse Leaders program. NewSchools is working to close the racial/ethnic demographic gap between leaders of education and the students they serve, partly by building strong talent pipelines so Black and Latino...

At EP, our team is spread across the country. One of the tools we use to connect to each other daily is Salesforce Chatter. There, we give updates on our work, ask questions of each other, and share what we’re reading. This June, to honor and celebrate LGBT Pride Month, we at EP were excited to share Pride versions of our EP logo with our network and on our social media channels. And the day before we planned to share them, the mass shooting happened at the gay club the Pulse in Orlando , and 49 innocent people were murdered. After the shooting, we came together as an organization, led by EP’...

We’re thrilled to explain some changes to how we survey our Alumni network and share some key insights we learned from our Pioneers this year: Streamlining our survey process for Pioneers. We heard from a lot of EP Alumni that we sometimes ask Alumni too many questions, too frequently, and without always sharing our findings in a timely or complete manner. In response, EP administered a new version of our Alumni Survey, which narrowed our list of survey items to the nine of the most essential “need to know” pieces of information. We are also randomly sampled our Alumni using a...

If you're interested in work on behalf of all students, EP can be the path for you—whether you're an emerging leader or a seasoned professional. Read on.

There’s no silver bullet to transform education in the United States. But any promising strategy for “what” we do requires that we get the “who” right. At Education Pioneers, we focus on the “who.” All day. Every day. We know that providing a pipeline of exceptional talent for the education sector will reinvigorate, create, and sustain great American schools that do right by all children. Last week, we announced our plan to double down on the bet on talent by expanding our work so that we can bring thousands more exceptional leaders into the education sector.

Today, Education Pioneers announced plans to improve and expand our work. By our 20th anniversary in 2023, we seek to develop 10,000 exceptional leaders from diverse backgrounds to support our partner organizations’ work on behalf of students nationwide. To enable us to get there, beginning today, we are recruiting for one program, the expanded Education Pioneers Fellowship, for talented emerging and established leaders.

Last week, the Pahara Institute announced the 25 education leaders they’ve selected for the 2015 fall cohort of the NextGen Network. Of the 25 leaders, six are EP leaders – one EP team member and five EP alumni.

EP is thrilled to unveil our new website! At EP, we work hard to tell the story of our work and impact to prospective candidates, partners, champions, and other stakeholders. Telling that story isn’t always easy. But it’s critical for us to reach our goal of 10,000 pioneers working across the sector by 2023 to transform education for students.

In 2013, Education Pioneers celebrates our 10 year anniversary. We are incredibly proud of the accomplishments of our Fellows and Partners over the years, and 2012 was no exception. In December, Philanthropedia ranked EP fourth out of 162 education nonprofits making a significant impact on education in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over two months, Philanthropedia surveyed 99 experts working in education in the Bay Area, with an average of 19 years of work experience in the field, to identify the organizations that were making the biggest positive impact on a local level. According to...