EP Alumnus, Jesse Hahnel (07 Bay Area), to Spread Ed Reform, Entrepreneurial Spirit, to Child Welfare System

2/23/10

Jesse Hahnel has worked with foster youth since the beginning of his career.

As a teacher in low-performing schools in Washington DC and New York City, Jesse saw first-hand the positive effects a vocal adult had on a child’s success in school. He also noticed the sparse number of adult education advocates for youth in the foster care system.

After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2008, Jesse worked with foster children and foster youth in Oakland to learn what was happening on the ground and to identify their unmet needs.

Not long into his work with Oakland-area foster children, Jesse was contacted by the director of a group home who was concerned about one the children in his home, a 15-year-old boy named Alex, who had not been placed in a school by the local school district despite Alex having been in the group home since November.

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2/23/10

Teachers have the most significant influence on student learning – especially for minority and low-income students. The evidence here is clear.

And recently a paradigm shift in the way the education industry evaluates teachers has been taking place.

As this change aims to measure teachers by the success of their students, rather than predictors of quality such as credentials, many believe –and  hope– that teachers will soon be accepted as individual professionals rather than interchangeable pieces in the educational puzzle.

According to a recent study, part of the problem is systemic.

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Houston, TX – Education Pioneers, a national network of education leaders and entrepreneurs, today announced the launch of a new site in Houston with the goal of recruiting and training 100 new education leaders by 2012. The program will connect organizations that lead and administer education services in Houston, including school districts, such as Houston Independent School District, charter schools and education nonprofits, with talented Education Pioneer Fellows who have the skills needed to improve education and increase student achievement.  Houston Endowment Inc. and the Arnold Family Foundation funded Education Pioneers’ launch in Houston with grants totaling $300,000.

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Oakland, CA – The Robertson Foundation, a private foundation established in 1996 by Julian H. Robertson, Jr., Chairman of Tiger Management L.L.C., and his wife, Josie, will invest $3 million in Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit that aims to build the capacity of the education system in the United States. The investment helps to ensure organizations that lead and administer education, such as school districts, charters schools and education nonprofits, have access to leaders with the skills needed to improve education and increase student achievement.

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Oakland, CA – From August 11th to August 19th in six urban centers across the nation, 230 professionals studying business, law, policy and education will join Education Pioneers’ network of alumni working to transform urban education. The national organization prepares high-achieving graduate school students for careers in education through a selective urban education fellowship program and customized alumni support.

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OAKLAND – Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to training, connecting and inspiring a new generation of education leaders announced today it has received two $3 million grants from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The grants will be used by Education Pioneers to triple the number of top graduate students it recruits and trains to become leaders in urban education.

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