All Ventures
Amira Learning
Entrepreneur: Mark Angel, Pete Jungwirth
For-profit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Amira Learning was part of the Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Amira Learning’s Intelligent Reading Assistant that listens, assesses, and coaches students to accelerate reading mastery.
Another Lens Staffing & HR Consulting Firm
Entrepreneur: Doreen Cunningham
For-profit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Another Lens seeks to build organizational cultures that are equitable, inclusive and supportive of teachers of color. Another Lens works to remove the barriers to hiring, onboarding, retention and promotion of teachers of color by auditing human resource policies and practices for districts, independent and charter schools. Another Lens strategizes with stakeholders to provide comprehensive solutions for successful recruiting, hiring, and retention of diverse educators and staff. As a result of their work, students and families of color can experience the benefit of having multiple educators, teachers and leaders, throughout their pre-K-12 education, who identify as BIPOC.
AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School: AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency (AELTR) is an innovative approach designed to prepare novice teachers for a career in teaching through hands-on experiences in the classroom while receiving targeted instruction and coaching.
Appletree Institute for Education Innovation
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation was part of the Early Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported AppleTree’s Every Child Ready solution and their mission to close the achievement gap before children get to kindergarten by providing the social, emotional, and cognitive foundations that enable them to thrive in school.
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education
Entrepreneur: Stephanie Parra
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
ALL In Education exists to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for ALL students. We seek to build an Arizona where no child is at risk of falling behind, where parents feel valued and supported and most importantly where ALL kids feel loved and honored in their classrooms.
Aspire Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Don Shalvey, Gloria Lee, Elise Darwish
Nonprofit | Founded: 1999 | Visit the Site
Aspire Public Schools is a network of 30 schools serving 10,000 low-income students across California. As Aspire’s first institutional donor, NewSchools put up early capital to help the organization get off the ground when no one else would.
Association of Two Way & Dual Language
Entrepreneur: Rosa G. Molina, Hortencia Piña
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
The Association of Two-Way & Dual Language Education (ATDLE) is a non-profit that provides professional development and technical support to schools/districts engaged in implementing Two-Way Bilingual Immersion and Dual Language Immersion (TWBI/DLI) programs. To date, they have reached 35 schools through deep, multi-year partnerships. The model includes task force development; professional development for teachers, administration, and parent leaders; and home engagement sessions. Further, ATDLE provides guidance on curriculum adoption and realignment
ASU Prep Digital
Entrepreneur: Amy McGrath, Michael Crow
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
ASU Prep Digital is part of Arizona State University’s broader efforts to support PreK-12 education within and outside Arizona. ASU Prep Digital currently offers a range of online high school and university courses, and was funded to pilot a holistic high school STEM model for 9th and 10th grade students in 2019-20. This new approach includes five blended science and math courses, a student and teacher-facing digital platform, instructional coaching, and college and career planning.
Atlanta Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Wardell Hunter
Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Atlanta Public Schools is one of the largest districts in Georgia, serving more than 52,000 students throughout Atlanta. Our Mission: Through a caring culture of equity, trust, and collaboration, every student will graduate ready for college, career, and life.
Our idea is to completely disrupt our leadership pipeline
program. For the first time ever, we will deeply explore root causes for this challenge and fundamentally revise our process to ensure Black and Latinx males, in particular, are able to advance into instructional leadership roles.Atlas Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Colby Heckendorn, Genevieve Backer
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Atlas is a public school that launched in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2021. The school intends to serve 468 students at full enrollment across kindergarten through fifth grade. The team at Atlas works intentionally to instill a love of learning in their kids while empowering them to build a healthy future for themselves, our community, and the world. Atlas’ integrated approach to teaching helps students make real-world connections and ignites their imaginations, so they are stimulated to discover meaningful passions of their own. Students at Atlas are academically exceptional and have the habits, skills, and mindsets needed to thrive.
Aventura Community School
Entrepreneur: Natalie Morosi; Diana Aguilar; Katie Castellon
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Aventura Community School is a public school that launched in Nashville, TN in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 930 students at full enrollment across grades K-8. The mission of Aventura Community School to elevate peace and justice by inspiring our diverse community to live as curious global citizens dedicated to changing the world. Following their K-8 journey at Aventura Community School, students will graduate with academic mastery, global competence including biliteracy in English and Spanish, and a track record of positive contribution to their community that together ensure they are prepared for success in high school, college, and a meaningful life
Bard High School Early Colleges
Entrepreneur: Clara Haskell Botstein, Stephen Tremaine
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The Bard Early Colleges offer public school students a tuition-free, liberal arts college education as part of their four-year public high school program. In freestanding satellite campuses of Bard College that also serve as public high schools, students are taught by college faculty in undergraduate seminars and receive up to 60 college credits and an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree from Bard College alongside a high school diploma.
Battelle Education
Entrepreneur: David Burns
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Battelle Education, which centers around STEM education, operates two schools in Columbus, Ohio. The Battelle Education Model serves grade 6-12 and includes advisory, personalization in both time and content, mastery-based grading, and postsecondary offerings. The model has enabled the start-up and successful implementation of over 50 schools in Ohio and 20 schools in Tennessee.
Be The Change Community School
Entrepreneur: Amanda Gonzales, Amanda Marquez
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018
Be the Change Community School is a prospective high school opening in Fall 2023 in Commerce City, CO. Our students are shapers of change who lead toward justice through revolutionary confidence and community engagement. The people closest to a problem are the ones with the greatest power in creating the solution, and the best way to ensure community agency and stability is through providing opportunities to cultivate agency for our students and their families.
Because Learning
Entrepreneur: Sunny Washington
For-profit | Visit the Site
Because Learning (formerly Ardusat) was part of the Science Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Because Learning’s efforts to bring space exploration to the classroom by making it possible for students to run code on satellites orbiting earth to explore and understand the world around them.
Becoming Collegiate Academy
Entrepreneur: Cameron Frazier
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Becoming Collegiate Academy is a public school that launched in Jacksonville, Florida in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 654 students at full enrollment across kindergarten-5th grade. Becoming Collegiate Academy is “The HBCU Elementary School”. Like HBCUs, Becoming provides a space for all students to belong. BCA’s mission is to prepare all students in grades K-5 to be successful in college and life. The vision is achieved through mirroring the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) experience with a keen focus on: (1) fostering positive relationships, (2) leveraging culture and identity, and (3) upholding high expectations.
BeeLine Reader
Entrepreneur: Nick Lum
For-profit | Visit the Site
BeeLine Reader was part of the Special Education Ed Tech Challenge. Funds support BeeLine Reader’s solution to make reading on-screen easier, faster, and more accessible.
