CEO, Scott Morgan, selected for prestigious Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellowship Program
The Aspen Institute and NewSchools Venture Fund today announced the selection of the third cohort of the prestigious Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellowship Program. These 24 accomplished leaders will join with fellows from the first two cohorts as participants in the program, which is designed to recognize and support exceptional entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to transforming public education.
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Education Pioneers CEO, Fellows and Alumni Featured on Houston Public Radio
Education Pioneers Brings Top Talent to Area Schools
A career in education usually evokes images of teachers or principals. But in reality there are many educational positions in areas like policy, law and business. Getting the best and brightest people to work in those areas is the mission of Education Pioneers; a national organization that just last month announced that Houston would be its seventh site. Rod Rice reports.
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Nonprofit pushes education leadership jobs
Graduate students working toward degrees in business, law or public policy might find an unusual recruiter at their next job fair.
Here's the pitch: Forget about that cushy firm job. Why not work for a public school or an education nonprofit? You don't have to be a teacher or a principal. You could be a business manager or a chief executive. You can help kids, and the pay really isn't that bad.
That's essentially the message of Education Pioneers, a nonprofit that recruits and trains top-notch graduate students for leadership jobs in public education. The California-based organization, which operates in six cities nationally, announced last week that is expanding to Houston thanks in part to donations totaling $300,000 from the Houston Endowment and the John and Laura Arnold Family Foundation.
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CEO, Scott Morgan, on Houston Public Radio
Education Pioneers to Recruit and Train Education Leaders
by: Rod Rice
A national network of education leaders and entrepreneurs is launching an effort in Houston to recruit and train 100 new education leaders by 2012. Rod Rice reports that Education Pioneers is coming to Houston because of grants from the Houston Endowment and the Arnold Family Foundation.
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New York Managing Director, Kelli Doss, Awarded Young, Gifted & Black Entrepreneurial Award
Young, Gifted & Black Entrepreneurial Awards Celebrate 5th Anniversary With Special Nina Simone Blac
The YGB Entrepreneurial Awards has been given out to more than one hundred honorees since its inception in 2006. It was created by Carl O. Gray, President and CEO, The NetLinkz Group, Inc. and Founder of Unified Network of Business Professionals with one goal: to highlight the paths each honoree has taken throughout his/her life.
Each honoree is selected by a previous recipient from his/her pool of peers as an acknowledgement and appreciation of that individual's drive for success - from where he/she has been in life to where he/she is now as an ambassador of the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Alumni Spotlight: Julayne Austin, MPA '07
Education Pioneers' Chicago Managing Director, Julayne Austin, featured in USC Alumni profile:
As a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California, Julayne Austin has attended class with some of the nation’s most promising students under the guidance of instructors who are leaders in their fields. Through her current position as managing director for Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving the schooling of thousands of students, she works to ensure that others are given the same opportunities.
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Summer Fellowship with Education Pioneers Complements Fels Education
My summer as a 2009 Education Pioneers Fellow enhanced my experience at Fels by providing me with meaningful opportunities to reflect on and learn about urban school systems and the challenges they face. Education Pioneers is a leadership pipeline that accepts graduate students studying Business, Policy, Education and Law and places them in education organizations – from local charter schools to national non-profits – in 6 cities across the U.S. Aside from the high-level, project-based work each fellow does at his or her placement organization, the cohort itself – around 44 graduate students in Boston and 225 nationally – attends a range of workshops on issues like School Choice, Parental Involvement, and Teacher Quality, each of which allows the fellows time to navigate the issues and hear perspectives from local leaders.
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I've Found My People
Yesterday I attended the Education Pioneers Metro DC Showcase. Education Pioneers is focused on building the field of leaders to close the talent gap and transform urban education. Their program places students from top graduate schools in summer internships at education organizations around the country. Education Pioneers is a fantastic model for developing human capital for social impact, and Founder Scott Morgan has been a great adviser to ProInspire.
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Aspiration And Teaching
I attended an inspiring event Wednesday night, the Education Pioneers’ End-of-Summer Showcase. The last speaker of the evening was former Pioneer, Justin Steele, who talked about the importance of one’s own personal story in motivating us to do the work we do. That’s where I’d like to end my blog run.
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Nonprofit Profile: Scott Morgan, Founder and CEO, Education Pioneers - San Francisco Business Times
Mission: To train, connect and inspire a new generation of education leaders dedicated to transforming our education system so that all students receive a quality education.
Founded: 2003.
HQ: Oakland.
Milestone: This year, we recruited 230 talented graduate students from business, education, law and public policy to our fellowship program, so we’re more than 25 times bigger than when we launched with nine grad students in 2004.
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