Sentences with phrase «education entrepreneurs»

There, at the nation's capital, a gathering of education entrepreneurs from across the country explored the themes of technology and innovation.

This three - day program is designed for education entrepreneurs with a proven program, product, or service.

The greatest successes — financial and academic — have come when education entrepreneurs have held firm.

What's unclear is what Knee would recommend for future education entrepreneurs and investors, aside from a narrower vision and some increased caution.

That's why we need education entrepreneurs, leaders who can forge new and meaningful pathways to learning for all children.

Growing numbers of education entrepreneurs view the $ 600 - billion public school enterprise as an investment target and potential profit source.

We design, sell, support, and provide ongoing services for our own digital content solutions and also select offerings from inspired education entrepreneurs.

The program provides a rare opportunity for education entrepreneurs to connect with each other as they share successes and challenges and build a network for ongoing support.

National education expert Rick Hess recently featured The Mind Trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship in his EdWeek blog.

Prior to joining the Institute, Julia worked at NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that supports education entrepreneurs who are transforming public education.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

Their founders have more in common with the highly educated young enthusiasts who start charter schools in America than the owners of the single institutions that dominate the sector, says Julia Moffett of the Future of Learning Fund, which backs education entrepreneurs in Africa.

These stories are certainly just a drop in the bucket — or perhaps, a drop in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans — but they are great examples of the work being done in the field of education by our alumni in schools and districts, at nonprofits and NGOs, as education entrepreneurs, and with government agencies.

Author Bio: Jim Peyser is Managing Partner for City Funds at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to transform public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.

The Mind Trust's seven other Education Entrepreneur Fellows have received national recognition for their work, which has been featured in several publications, including TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and Essence Magazine.

The GEMS group was founded by education entrepreneur Sunny Varkey, who also funded the annual Global Teaching Prize.

Finally, his generosity in sharing his time and gifts with me and so many other education leaders over the years is the reason why I prioritize making the time to meet with and mentor other education entrepreneurs who seek me out for guidance.

Additionally, Melanie led knowledge management for Perkins + Will's education architecture studio, empowered education entrepreneurs as a fellow in the Chicago Public Schools» new school incubator, and helped launch the Jane Goodall Institute's youth education program in the Midwest.

CityBridge identifies education entrepreneurs with the relentlessness, creativity and acumen needed to build innovative schools to a high standard of excellence.

Professional trainers are becoming digital education entrepreneurs, moving from a traditional face - to - face coaching / training into a digital classroom.

Based on research and interviews with leading education entrepreneurs, it outlines ways in which policymakers can support the success and growth of entrepreneurial problem - solvers, including:

Students will engage in biweekly conversations with guest mentors, all of whom are education entrepreneurs working domestically or internationally.

The GEMS group was founded by education entrepreneur Sunny Varkey, who has also funded the annual Global Teaching Prize.

The «jobs to be done» theory can help reformers, school leaders, and education entrepreneurs alike bridge the frequently gaping chasm between need and demand in education.

It sure wouldn't hurt if more education entrepreneurs spent time learning about all the efforts that preceded them.

Emphasizing the need for additional effective education entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charter schools.

In May 2014, The Mind Trust awarded its eighth Education Entrepreneur Fellowship to Mariama Carson, a 17 - year district educator and national award - winning teacher who is starting a Spanish language immersion charter school in 2016.

While $ 100,000 would certainly be difficult to turn down, other ed tech accelerators offering less capital aren't without their selling points for aspiring education entrepreneurs.

In 2015 The Mind Trust awarded Caitlin Hannon of Indianapolis its ninth Education Entrepreneur Fellowship, through which she will develop and launch Enroll Indy, a new nonprofit that will create a unified enrollment system in Indianapolis to provide parents with a central hub for information about various public school options and how to enroll their child in one of those schools.

Carson is The Mind Trust's first Indianapolis - based Education Entrepreneur Fellow and the first fellow to start a charter school.

Invest in strategies that fully use existing talent by offering education entrepreneurs opportunities, such as paid fellowships, to develop new, groundbreaking school models that allow the best teachers to reach more students.

INDIANAPOLIS - A Pike Township principal who is a national award - winning educator will launch a Spanish - language immersion public charter school in Indianapolis through The Mind Trust's prestigious Education Entrepreneur Fellowship.

Leadership for Educational Equity, Education Entrepreneurs Selected for Inaugural Venture Fund & Fellowship RISE Colorado is announced as one of the inaugural winners of the Leadership for Educational Equity Venture Fund and Fellowship to support the organization's growth and leadership over the next year.

Here we learned from education entrepreneurs such as Rick Hess, known for his «cage - busting leadership» and Mike «Big Dog» Feinberg, co-founder of the KIPP charter schools.

Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

Spongelab is part of the MaRS Discovery District's Education Cluster, a group of education entrepreneurs devoted to innovation in K - 12 education in Canada.

In this video they interview one of the most famous education entrepreneurs today, Sal Khan, whose Khan Academy has delivered more than 71 million online video tutorials.

My pre-design world life included non-profit programming, service learning facilitation, incubating education entrepreneurs, and communication consulting.

«Without education entrepreneurs, it would be impossible to make the business contacts to make this run right,» says Hiram Johnson physics teacher Jenks.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

Whereas the public school bureaucracy is capable of incremental change at most, education entrepreneurs see beyond long - established barriers and disrupt the status quo.

(Indeed, several education entrepreneurs told me they wouldn't expand their projects into cities where there isn't a TFA presence because they couldn't be sure of attracting the talent they need.)

Education entrepreneurs appear increasingly clued into these opportunities.

Whether you go on to become a teacher, a counselor, or a principal; a school superintendent or college faculty member; an education researcher, a policymaker, or a budding education entrepreneur.

The intensive, three - day program, Scaling for Impact: Strategies to Enhance and Expand What Works in Education, teaches education entrepreneurs with a program, product, or service about how to scale, adapt, and sustain their projects.

In the few markets where education entrepreneurs gain a toehold, the price of doing business is often accommodation, compromise, and even disingenuousness.

When education entrepreneurs negotiate with a district or state leader, and have the option of pursuing their goals outside of the system, they represent real potential for change.