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Applications Now Open for 2022 Impact Fellowship

By Melissa Wu, February 23, 2022

“Our hardest and most important work lies ahead. It’ll be what we are judged against. [...] As educators and leaders, we’re either closing educational opportunity gaps or making them worse with the decisions we make in the coming months and years.” - Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona Right now, the path ahead of K-12 feels filled with opportunity as we sit on the edge of a new phase of the pandemic. After two grueling years, school systems have new resources in hand and are poised to make critical decisions that will either help or hinder efforts to make education a lever for equity. We’...
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EP COVID Response Fellowship Briefing

January 20, 2022

What leadership and general management talent does the K-12 sector need to meet the challenges of COVID-19? That’s the question Education Pioneers set out to answer when we first conceived of the COVID Response Fellowship in April 2020. At the time, we knew there would be an urgent response to the crisis, as well as a longer-term effort to recover and rebuild – but we couldn’t predict the details of the work. We are proud to share stories of impact from the EP COVID Response Fellowship, and to announce EP's new COVID Recovery Fellowship for 2022. Over the course of 12-month work placements...
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Announcing Our 2021-2022 Impact Fellowship Cohort

By Jennifer Chin, November 17, 2021

Amidst a pivotal moment for student learning and recovery, we’re proud to announce the 49 rising leaders who join the 2021-2022 EP Impact Fellowship -- one of our signature programs . This cohort of 49 is more than twice the size of last year’s cohort -- growth that exceeded even our own expectations, and a proof point that project managers, analysts, and other implementation specialists are needed now more than ever. Together, our new Fellows will provide capacity to 38 education organizations that serve 2.5M+ students nationwide. Read on to learn more about our cohort, and to see the full...
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Education Pioneers 2021 Annual Report

November 4, 2021

Dear Friends, There are so many lessons from the turmoil of the past 18 months, but I keep coming back to one: leadership is so often the catalyst that can turn crisis into opportunity. In our schools and communities, we can’t wait to react; we need to have the right leaders in the right place at the right time. The Education Pioneers network is full of the leaders K-12 needs: 4,500 Alumni -- 3,000+ of whom still work in education -- who press onwards through trauma and fatigue to serve students and families during COVID-19, as well as nearly 50 new Fellows who raised their hands to...

COVID Response Roundtable: The Evolution of K-12 Pandemic Response

By Jennifer Chin, October 7, 2021

The 2021-2022 school year is in full swing across the country -- and while it’s become a national priority to accelerate learning and get students back in the physical classroom as much as possible, it has remained a complicated endeavor in the age of COVID-19. The Delta variant continues to surge, vaccines remain unavailable to children under the age of 12, and communities continue to face different contextual challenges which are impacting the “return” to school. On the front lines of this effort are EP COVID Response Fellows : 24 leaders who jumped head-first into the K-12 crisis nearly 12...

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