All Ventures
Entrepreneur: Oliver Sicat
For-profit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
Ednovate was co-founded by USC Rossier School of Education and CEO Oliver Sicat in an effort to redesign the American high school experience and create Positive Multigenerational Change. Today, Ednovate operates six college-prep, tuition-free, charter high schools in Los Angeles and Orange County, primarily serving first-generation college-bound students from traditionally underserved communities. Together, we use our college degrees and careers to make a Positive Multigenerational Change. Ednovate will open a virtual school called Ednovate Virtual Aademy serving students in Southern California in Fall 2023. The school intends to serve 400 students at full enrollment across grades 9-12.
3DE
Entrepreneur: Shayna Gaspard, Niambi Sampson
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
3DE is an Atlanta-based organization that was spun out of Junior Achievement. 3DE is an experiential-learning high-school model focused on connecting students to the real world through business leaders, business cases and career readiness. The research-backed model provides scope and sequence from grade 9 to 12, supporting students to build out their skillset inside and outside the classroom over four years. 3DE serves students in grades 9-12 at six high schools in Georgia today. Plans to scale beyond Georgia are under way, with hopes to reach 25 states in 10 years.
7 Generation Games
Entrepreneur: Maria Burns Ortiz, Gonzalo Serrano
For-profit | Founded: 2013 | Visit the Site
7 Generation Games is developing 7 Gen Ed Blocks, a no-code platform that enables educators to create interactive, culturally responsive literacy learning experiences in multiple languages. Since its founding, the organization has been focused on building narrative and gaming experiences that close equity gaps and improve outcomes for indigenous students and multilingual learners. Now they are working to adapt existing code libraries (originally used to develop proprietary games) into modularized, easily editable code blocks that educators can customize through a digital platform. This effort represents an attempt to scale their impact by putting more power into the hands of educators and enabling them to bring their content to life in engaging and culturally responsive ways.
A School Without Walls
Entrepreneur: Alan Cheng
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
A School Without Walls, a new NYCDOE high school program with a hybrid pathway, launched in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 1235 students at full enrollment across grades 9-12.Their Mission and Vision: A School Without Walls Hybrid program centers the lives of young people through interdisciplinary, project based learning. They believe in the power of young people to transform communities if given the opportunity to pursue their interests and passions as a part of their high school experience.Academy of Visual and Performing Arts
Entrepreneur: Dr. Stephanie Love
Nonprofit | Founded: 2010 | Visit the Site
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) is a creative arts public charter school, authorized by the Texas Education Agency, to serve students in Fort Worth, Texas. AVPA will open in 2023-2024 with 320 6-7 grade students. At capacity, AVPA will serve 1120 students in grades 6-12. AVPA is governed by Illumination Education, Inc., which holds the charter on behalf of the public. The Board of Directors consists of eight (8) diverse community members.
Accel Day and Evening School
Entrepreneur: Jeremiah Newell
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Accel Academy launched two schools, a middle school and a high school, in Mobile, Alabama. The two schools intend to eventually serve 800 students in grades 6-12. ACCEL Academy offers a highly interactive, hands on curriculum with a focus on personalized college and career-ready pathways, targeted interventions for all students, and the development of social and emotional skills and mindsets that endure through adulthood.
Achieve Middle School
Entrepreneur: Dominique Lee
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Achieve Community Charter School is a public school that launched in Newark, NJ in Fall 2020. The school intends to serve 320 students at full enrollment across grades 5-8. The vision of the Achieve Community Charter School is to provide a Pre K-12 continuum that fosters the individual needs of students as they develop the skills, character, and values that will prepare them for college and empower them to use their unique perspective as an asset to shape our country’s future.
Achievement First Accelerate
Entrepreneur: Paige MacLean, Dacia Toll
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Achievement First (AF) is a growing network of 36 non-profit, high performing K-12 public charter schools spanning New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The AF Accelerate model is a comprehensive set of instructional materials, scope and sequences, unit plans and assessments for elementary and middle school Math & ELA.
Achievers Early College Prep
Entrepreneur: Osen Osagie, Efe Odeleye
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Achievers Early College Prep launched two public schools, a middle school and a high school, in Trenton, New Jersey. The two schools intend to serve 600 students at full enrollment in grades 6-12. The mission of Achievers is to offer a rigorous academic and personal efficacy program that leads to a college degree. Achievers will use a STEAM curriculum to promote academic success for all learners, ensuring that students access post-secondary education dually with high school coursework and acquire mindsets and habits that prepare them for careers and life-long problem-solving.
Admissions Gambit
Entrepreneur: Dr. Erwin Hesse
For-profit | Visit the Site
Admissions Gambit aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and first-generation applicants to colleges that match their academic and extracurricular backgrounds. They support students and families by providing one-on-one guidance and support throughout the entire application process, given that many students lack sufficient access to school counselors, with the national average counselor to student ratio of 415-to-1.
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School
Entrepreneur: Ruben Morris
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School is a public school that launched in Tarrant, Alabama in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 600 students at full enrollment across grades 9-11. They prepare their diverse student body for leadership positions in the aerospace and aviation industries through a rigorous, authentic and industry-aligned aerospace and defense education. They strive to create clearly-defined pathways for their diverse student body to enter aviation and aerospace careers and also to become a widely respected source of leaders for the industry.
ALAS
Entrepreneur: Lisa María Rhodes
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
ALAS uproots barriers that limit education, career, and civil rights of immigrant and court-affected students by organizing youth and families to lead educator training and policy advocacy.
ALAS’ trainings and policy advocacy reshape the educational systems’ engagement with and proactively support of youth who are arrested or undocumented.
Our youth and families help educators, policymakers and community members reshape attitudes, conscientiousness, and responsibility to create environments of belonging at school and to disrupt mass incarceration for youth.
All Means All
Entrepreneur: Lindsay Kruse and Ben Marcovitz
Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
All Means All builds partnerships with school and system leaders to increase equitable outcomes and opportunities for students with disabilities and other intersectional identities that have been historically marginalized. Our flagship AMA School Leadership Program is a 15-month cohort-based fellowship for school leaders along with their school and/or network based teams that pairs repeated practicing of key adaptive skills (mindsets, adult culture and problem solving) and the technical levers to address inequity in schools with the deep coaching, feedback and collaboration to sustain it. Leaders in the program will work to shrink key academic and/or social emotional opportunity gaps rooted in systemic racism and ableism for students with disabilities with a particular focus on Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds.
AppleTree
Entrepreneur: Chavaughn Brown, Anne Malone
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Appletree is committed to closing the achievement gap before children get to Kindergarten. Through its early learning model, Every Child Ready (ECR), AppleTree provides three- and four-year-old students with social, emotional and cognitive foundation. The model supports schools with curriculum, professional learning and assessments and an overall opportunity to expand into pre-K. Today, ECR is delivered to 22 charter schools in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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.
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
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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.
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.
Attest Education Group
Entrepreneur: Regine Philippeaux, Rachel Jules
For-profit | Visit the Site
The Attest Excellence for All (EFA) model is a three-year partnership that centers cultural responsiveness and rigorous teaching. This models aims to reach schools and districts serving a moderate to a large population of Black and Latino students, as well as students with disabilities and English Learners.The solution aims to reimagine the school day through a three-year partnership in five primary areas: 1) Problem of Practice review, 2) professional learning (re)design and leadership coaching, 3) inquiry-based approaches, 4) curriculum audit and development, and 5) culturally responsive environment reviews. The Attest EFA model seeks to create an optimal environment for scholarship, which is based on learning that is relevant and responsive, as well as learning that centers on the histories of students.
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