What’s an Innovative Public School?
By Deborah Veney, Director of Policy and Communications Nearly everyone has been inside a school. But, stepping into an innovativepublic school is a very different experience. It can make you rethink...
View ArticleNewSchools Announces Funding to Diversify the PreK-12 Teaching Profession
Initial $3.5 million investment launches with support from the Walton Family Foundation OAKLAND, CA – June 18, 2019 –NewSchools Venture Fund, with financial support from the Walton Family Foundation,...
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AppleTree: How Social Innovations Scale to Become Model Providers
How do social innovations scale? KIPP began as a charter school, became a charter management organization, and then a network of charter management organizations. AVID started as a single school...
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How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech
An Interview with Peter Gault, Co-founder and Executive Director of Quill.org, on designing for student differences We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from three years of ed...
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How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech – Part Two
An Interview with Komal Dadlani, Co-founder and CEO of Lab4U, on getting into classrooms early and often to build a great product We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from...
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How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech – Part Three
Andrew Coulson, Chief Data Science Officer of MIND Research Institute, on leveraging the right data (not just big data) We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from three years of...
View ArticleNewSchools Announces Up to $8 Million in Funding for PreK-12 Education...
Thinking of starting an innovative school or supporting diverse education leaders? We want to hear about it. (Oakland, CA, August 1, 2019) — NewSchools Venture Fund today announced open funding...
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Why Everyone Can Be Good at Math
Announcing $9 million in funding for bold ideas to integrate executive function and math By Melina Uncapher, Ph.D., Director, EF+Math Program I’m on a mission. I want to challenge the way people think...
View ArticleNewSchools Venture Fund and Gallup Release Survey Findings About Ed Tech...
New report unveils opinions from teachers, principals, administrators and students on digital tools (Oakland, CA, Sept. 12, 2019) – Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund today announced the release of a...
View ArticleNewSchools Venture Fund Releases Report on Latino Education Entrepreneurs
New report explores why representation remains low and what funders can do to find and better support these leaders (Oakland, CA, Sept. 17, 2019) –NewSchools Venture Fund today released a new report,...
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Five Things We’re Learning from Schools in Our Portfolio
By Stacey Childress, CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund Enthusiasm for social emotional learning has reached a fever pitch among policymakers and funders. Whether it’s framed as a focus on the whole child,...
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What if Every Child had a Teacher Who Looked Like Him or Her?
By Tiffany Cheng Nyaggah, Partner I am unmistakably Asian American. A child of Chinese immigrants, I grew up in Oakland and was educated in diverse public schools. As I look back on my educational and...
View ArticleWalton Family Foundation Announces $3.5 Million in Funding to Diversify the...
In collaboration with NewSchools Venture Fund, 14 grantees will receive funding and management assistance to recruit, develop and retain underrepresented educators nationwide BENTONVILLE, AR, October...
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What I’m Grateful for This Season: Education Innovators
By Miho Kubagawa, Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund November is my favorite month of the year because of its focus on gratitude. A few years ago, I began the tradition of sending handwritten cards to 30...
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Four Silver Linings in the Homeschool Hot Mess
By, Tonika Cheek Clayton, Managing Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund As a K-12 ed tech investor who understands the landscape of tech tools used to support student learning, you might think my...
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Reducing Bias in Virtual Teacher Hiring
By Antonio Tapia, Senior Associate Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund Image via Folio It wasn’t too long ago that we sat around a table and asked teacher candidates questions in a face-to-face interview....
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Our Moral Imperative: Racial Equity and the Public School System
By Frances Messano, senior managing partner, NewSchools Venture Fund Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash Educators are preparing for a fall as their school communities — and the rest of the world — grapple...
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Three Principles School Leaders Can Use to Reduce COVID-19 Risk
By David Noah, Comp Sci High Jason Shaad, Charter School Growth Fund Miho Kubagawa, NewSchools Venture Fund Photo by Andy Falconer Are face shields just as effective as face masks? What does social...
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Charter School Authorizers Must Rebalance Accountability, Flexibility, and...
By Miho Kubagawa, Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund When schools closed in March, I naively assumed that the biggest challenge public schools would face this upcoming school year would be how to open or...
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COVID-19 is Upending What “Schooltime” Means. And that’s a good thing.
By Leo Bialis-White, Senior Associate Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund One hundred and eighty days per year. Six and a half hours per day. For decades, the lines separating in-school and out-of-school...
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