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Diversity Talks
Entrepreneur: Kiara Butler
For-profit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Diversity Talks shifts mindsets by partnering with organizations to create unique learning environments where the most marginalized voices are at the forefront. Our mission is to increase cultural competency by fostering a healing space for those in power and those most marginalized to challenge the societal standards upholding white supremacy. We envision an anti-racist society of shared responsibility, with everyone collectively working to create systemic change.
DREAMS Community Middle School
Entrepreneur: Cheryl Hildreth, Allison Holdorf
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020
DREAMS Community Middle School (DREAMS CMS) is a public school that will launch in Los Angeles, CA in Fall 2021. The school intends to serve 360 students at full enrollment across grades 6-8. DREAMS CMS is a diverse and inclusive community school that offers challenging project-based learning experiences while ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment designed with the needs of pre-adolescents in mind. Students at DREAMS CMS are curious, compassionate, and confident. They are academic achievers, emotionally intelligent, and culturally competent. They graduate ready for the academic rigors of high school and beyond, and demonstrating the traits of global leaders in the 21st century.
Dual Language Education of New Mexico
Entrepreneur: David Rogers, Michael Rodriguez, Lisa Meyer
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Dual Language Education of New Mexico (DLeNM) is an educational non-profit serving school, district, and state entities in the development and refinement of dual language programs. The solution reimagines the student experience by ensuring ownership of the selected dual language model, commitments to the program, and a common approach to supporting language acquisition through content. DLeNM offers partner schools facilitated training sessions to select, align, and/or analyze existing and potential curriculum and assessments within their programs. Within their R-squared offering, DLeNM guides decision-makers in choosing formative assessments that support the goals of dual language and biliteracy.
Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children
Entrepreneur: Resha Conroy
Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children works to eliminate the amplified inequities for Black children experiencing unaddressed dyslexia or related learning disabilities. Through collaborative efforts with families and educators, we inform, empower, and raise awareness of the need for early identification and intervention for Black children with dyslexia through sharing knowledge, dismantling systems of bias, and paving pathways to evidence-based reading instruction.
EarlyBird Education
Entrepreneur: Carla E. Small, Nadine Gaab
For-profit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
EarlyBird is a game-based assessment that screens for dyslexia as well as moderate reading risk that can be addressed through multi-tiered systems of support. Based on research conducted by the co-founders at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the FSU-Florida Center for Reading Research, it can accurately identify students who might benefit from specialized support related to foundational reading skills. Such “early identification” practices are a key lever for supporting long-term literacy and health outcomes.
Educators for Excellence: 2023 Voices From the Classroom
Entrepreneur: Evan Stone and Sydney Morris
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Founded by public school teachers, Educators for Excellence is a growing movement of more than 30,000 educators, united around a common set of values and principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession. We work together to identify issues that impact our schools, create solutions to these challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students access to a quality education. The 2023 Voices from the Classroom survey is a comprehensive national survey of public school teachers and is designed by teachers to capture crucial insight on the views of public school teachers on a wide variety of issues impacting students and the teaching profession.
edwell
Entrepreneur: Nicola Fleischer
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Edwell is on a mission to ensure every teacher has the knowledge, skills, and resources to meet the mental health needs of their students and themselves– the two pieces of the school climate puzzle. They believe that to teach the whole student, you also need to support the whole teacher.
Elevate Academy Nampa
Entrepreneur: Monica White, Matt Strong
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Elevate Academy Nampa is a public school that launched in Nampa, Idaho in Fall 2022. the school intends to serve 480 students at full enrollment across grades 6-12. Elevate Academy Nampa is a community driven, mastery based integrated curriculum career technical education school that focuses on serving students identified as at-risk. Elevate Academy celebrates and fosters the growth of students beyond the traditional subjects, and matches their talents to the workforce or postsecondary opportunities that they have discovered align with their talents. They aim create hope where many only felt hopeless.
Empower Community High School
Entrepreneur: Wisdom Amouzou
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Empower Community High School is a public charter school in Aurora, CO that will eventually serve 436 students in grades 9-12. At Empower, students claim ownership of their academic progress by designing and personalizing standards-based educational experiences in order to fulfill a genuine need in the community. Furthermore, students develop agency by identifying community needs and using these needs as opportunities to solve problems with a fresh and reasoned application of academic and technical skills.
Empower Community School
Entrepreneur: Dr. Anthony J. Oliver
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Empower Community School is a public school that launched in Bessemer, Alabama in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 750 students at full enrollment across grades K-8. Under the core values of heart, mind, collaboration, and technology, the school’s model includes the use of personalized learning, comprehensive social and emotional development, and intentional community building and leadership training to develop the next generation of leaders and community advocates. Students will leave Empower prepared for the most challenging academic endeavors while also possessing the voice and skills to advocate for themselves and others.
Endazhi-Nitaawiging “The Place Where it Grows”
Entrepreneur: Nathaniel Taylor
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Endazhi-Nitaawiging is a public school that launched in Red Lake, Minnesota in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 150 students at full enrollment across grades K-8.
At the heart of Ojibwe culture is the connection between individuals and Mother Earth. The Red Lake Charter School aims to strengthen the Red Lake Nation by providing our children with an education grounded in Ojibwe values that is academically rigorous and celebrates Indigenous culture. Endazhi-Nitaawiging “The Place Where it Grows” mission is to prepare each student for college with an enhanced knowledge of the Ojibwe language, culture, leadership, and environmental stewardship.
Evision Academy Programs
Entrepreneur: Angela Hilson
For-profit | Visit the Site
Evision Academy Programs offers a “Braille Box” as a braille-based literacy program to support blind and visually limited learners nationwide, in both public and homeschool settings. Through the Braille Box and comprehensive support services, Evision Academy Programs seeks to provide distance curriculum to students, advocacy support for parents, and training for classroom teachers to better understand the need for literacy instruction that is accessible to all students.
Expert IEP
Entrepreneur: Antoinette Banks
Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Expert IEP’s goal is to empower caregivers of youth who think and learn differently to participate as valued members of the IEP team. We achieve their goal by leveraging machine learning to elevate caregiver assets, help caregivers advocate for clear and appropriate IEP goals, and monitor service delivery as well as overall student progress. We are the first IEP optimization app for families by families.
Facing History and Ourselves
Entrepreneur: Dimitry Anselme, Roger Brooks
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FHAO is an international education and professional development organization focused on integrating social-emotional and civic learning into humanities education. Teachers not only lead students in exploration and conversation regarding difficult histories, such as the Holocaust and Armenian genocide, but lead reflection on connection to contemporary issues . Moving forward, Facing History hopes to package their already existing content into a full, cohesive model and pilot at partner schools within their existing network.
Firestarters
Entrepreneur: Edwin Stevenson
Founded: 2022
Firestarters is a movement dedicated to relearn, restore and reclaim our ancestral homelands by building stewardship data, leadership and advocacy for LANDBACK. Decolonizing learning to end cultural genocide, Firestarters is building an equitable and sustainable world through environmental education and sovereignty. Firestarters combats anti-Indigenous values, leadership and systems rooted in colonialism.
ForwardEd
Entrepreneur: Mirla Urzua
For-profit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
ForwardEd creatively expands and diversifies the teacher candidate pipeline for Los Angeles schools by assisting emergency credentialed teachers and the school-based teams that support them to ensure teachers reach the next credentialing level needed to become fully certified.
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice
Entrepreneur: Aireane Montgomery
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice Incorporated is a professional organization which champions the liberation and belonging of Black educators, students, and educational stakeholders. We endeavor to extend resources and guidance in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: advocacy, charitable purposes, civic engagement and responsibility, professional development, as well as recruitment and retention.
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School
Entrepreneur: Luma Mufleh
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter School (GFACS) is a public school that launched in Atlanta, Georgia in Fall 2020. The school intends to serve 350 students at full enrollment across grades 6-12. As a school committed to meeting the needs of refugee and new American students, GFACS will provide a unique schooling environment that provides rigorous academic support and English proficiency; holistic, trauma-informed supports; the confidence and socio-emotional skills to navigate a new culture and country; and a community wholly invested in each student through college graduation and beyond.
