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EP Impact Fellowship 2019-2020 Wrap-up Report

By Colleen Downie, October 1, 2020

EP’s second cohort of Impact Fellows began in Fall 2019 . Over the course of their EP Fellowship the world changed and they pivoted with purpose , demonstrating not only the adaptive leadership skills they were learning and building during their leadership development programming but also their commitment to education. While their experience began in person, COVID-19 mandated a swift pivot to remote work, virtual programming, and online cohort connections.
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Black Women and Education, Interrupted

By Kwamara Thompson, September 1, 2020

Education is the civil rights movement of our time. Positive education always causes elevation (PEACE). Those two mottos guide every professional decision I make. From working with children in Brownsville Brooklyn, Flushing Queens, and the Mississippi Delta to building Thompson Education Consulting (TEC), an education consulting company with clients across the country, those thoughts live within my being and drive my actions. I created the “I am a Black Woman, Yes I Matter” community event series while producing the play, Sistas on Fire in New York City as a way to bring excerpts of the play...
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We’re proud to announce the COVID Response Fellowship

By Melissa Wu, August 19, 2020

Education Pioneers COVID Response Fellowship empty classroom students leaders
Dear Pioneers, partners, supporters and friends of EP, As COVID-19 rages on and the 2020-2021 academic year begins, school leaders are wrestling with hard choices and conflicting priorities around community safety, student learning, and budget constraints. Eighty-five percent of the 20 largest U.S. school districts are starting remote-only. Studies are simultaneously projecting that existing achievement gaps will widen by another 15-20% as low-income and students of color face distance learning inequities — all while there’s a national spotlight on racial injustice. There are no playbooks for...

Building Back Better Starts Now

June 24, 2020

Summer is typically “time on” for education leaders and school staff who need to advance critical work ahead of the next school year. As June rolls around this year, little is typical. Students have been out of school buildings for months and planning for a potential return to learning in the fall amidst the continued public health crisis will be different and more complex from what most education sector professionals have ever seen. At the same time as the education sector is navigating the looming budget crisis and strong potential for learning loss caused by COVID-19, there’s also a racial...
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Black Lives Matter

June 5, 2020

Black Lives Matter. We are outraged by the recent racially motivated murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade — and by the countless other acts of violence and injustice that have occurred over the course of our country’s racist history. Today and always, Education Pioneers stands in solidarity with the Black community — those on our staff, in our network of Alumni and Fellows, and in the communities we serve. This moment again shines a light on white supremacy and its imprint on our society and our systems. Our schools are not immune: massive inequities exist...

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