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Scott Morgan Writes for Ed Week on the Head and Heart of Cage-Busting Leaders

04.22.13

In this guest blog post for Rick Hess' Education Week blog, "Straight Up," Scott Morgan, Founder & CEO of Education Pioneers writes about the head and heart of cage-busting leaders and how they can transform education for all students.

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Help EP Win $100,000 to Support Los Angeles Principals and Teachers

04.17.13

By participating in LA2050, Education Pioneers is eligible to receive a $100,000 grant to support Los Angeles principals and teachers. But we can only win with your help! Learn more about our vision and vote here.

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Analyst Fellowship Community Project: The Secret to Surpassing Your Fundraising Target: 8 Easy Steps

04.12.13

In this blog post from 2012-2013 Analyst Fellow Stephanie Nguyen, she writes about how she and her team were able to surpass their fundraising target by 150% to launch a Student Consultancy Program to help prepare students for college.

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Analyst Fellowship Community Project: Turning Vision into Reality

04.11.13

In this blog post from 2012-2013 Analyst Fellow Angela Le, she writes about her vision to create a Student Consultancy Program to help prepare students for college.

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2013 Analyst Fellowship - Deadline Extended to April 17, 2013

04.10.13

The 2013 Analyst Fellowship final round application deadline has been extended by one week! Due to high interest and demand, we have pushed the deadline back to April 17, 2013. There's still time to be considered! Submit your application today to lead data-informed change in U.S. education.

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Analyst Fellowship Webinar Highlights and Q&A with Christine DeLeon

04.04.13

In a recent Education Pioneers webinar about the 2013 Analyst Fellowship, Christine DeLeon talked about her vision for the Analyst Fellowship, the benefits it offers Fellows, and why analytic skills are key to help education organizations make data-informed decisions. This Storify summary shares the highlights.

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NY Times Article on Transforming Memphis Schools Features EP Alum Ash Solar

04.04.13

In this New York Times article about transforming schools in Memphis, Tennessee and the state's Achievement School District, EP Alum Ash Solar, Chief Talent Officer for the ASD, talks about building effective systems to support teachers:

"We did not want to come into town and lose all the current educators and ship in a bunch of new teachers," said Ash Solar, chief talent officer for the achievement district. "We want to show that if you build a new system where educators are supported, they can thrive."

Mike Fox Joins Education Pioneers’ National Board

04.03.13

Oakland, CA - Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit organization committed to transforming education, announced today that Mike Fox, Director of Global Vertical Marketing at Facebook, joined its National Board. Fox brings a wealth of experience at a time of significant growth for Education Pioneers.

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Education Pioneers Joins 100Kin10, National Initiative to Grow STEM Teaching Force

03.06.13

National nonprofit commits to placing 300 top leaders with 100Kin10 partner organizations

Oakland, CA - Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit organization operating in 16 cities nationwide, today announced that it has been accepted as a partner in 100Kin10, a multi-sector partnership addressing the national imperative to train 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers by 2021.

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EP and Founder & CEO Scott Morgan Featured in The Michigan Daily

02.21.13

Panel Discusses Education and Leadership in Detroit Schools

By Michael Maas
Daily Staff Reporter On February 21st, 2013

At the Nonprofit and Public Management Center's second annual Education Leaders Forum on Thursday, participants discussed ways to attract education leaders to Detroit.

About 30 students attended the event, which included a discussion panel of four leaders with expertise in education in Detroit. Panelists included Scott Morgan, the founder and CEO of Education Pioneers, an education recruitment firm; Dan Varner, the CEO of Excellent Schools Detroit, a non-profit group working to improve education in Detroit; Kendra Hearn, a Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Education; and Lesley Redwine, the CEO and Superintendent of New Urban Learning, a non-profit charter management organization.

The forum followed the NPM's Social Impact Challenge, a contest for graduate students' education ideas that took place earlier in the day.

"The point of the Social Impact Challenge is to allow students at Michigan the chance to work on a real-life problem for an organization that focuses on social impact. So in this case, Education Pioneers is tackling a real important issue for our nation, which is how to create a better pipeline of leaders into the space," said Rishi Moudgil, the managing director of NPM.

Morgan said he agreed to speak in the panel and act as a judge for the social impact challenge because he wanted to hear the students' insights, which he could possibly implement in his organization. "The caliber of thought and analysis in the short time frame with which they had to analyze all the data and make recommendations was incredibly impressive," Morgan said. "We have a number of ideas that we are going to be able to run with in a high-quality way."

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Morgan gave the keynote speech after the announcement of the winner. He highlighted the importance of leadership in education.

"First, leadership matters and it matters at all levels," Morgan said. "Secondly, leaders can have tremendous leverage. They get leverage by developing other leaders and they have leverage in the terms of the way they spend dollars. And then the third thing is that leadership is the key lever in transforming urban education."