Diverse Leaders
Mosaic School Support Solutions, LLC
Entrepreneur: ShaVon Savage
For-profit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Mosaic School Supports builds the school management capacity of school leaders through education coursework, coaching and consulting. The best school leaders manage resources, create community and embrace continuous improvement. Mosaic School Supports focuses on helping diverse school leaders develop and deepen their equity lens while systematizing their school management systems.
NACA Inspired Schools Network: The Growing Together Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Anpao Duta Flying Earth
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
NISN is building a movement of students, families, and educators to create excellent schools relevant to the communities they serve. NISN works with fellows who are committed to Indigenous communities to establish schools in New Mexico and throughout the country that will create strong leaders who are academically prepared, secure in their identities, healthy, and ultimately transforming their communities. The current NISN network is working with communities in New Mexico, Colorado, California, South Dakota, and Minnesota. The Growing Together Fellowship will bring together Indigenous school leaders to stimulate a communal reimagining of what visionary leadership and a holistic, culturally integrated education might look like for all historically marginalized students.
National Association of Black Male Educators
Entrepreneur: Rictor Craig
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
The mission of the National Association of Black Male Educators is to dramatically increase the number of marginalized children who succeed by dramatically increasing the number of highly effective black and brown male teachers and leaders who positively impact them.
The NABME Leadership Incubator is a 2-year fellowship that will develop the cultural, instructional and operational leadership capacity of black and brown male educators, centered in the experience of black and brown males, as they progress to become high quality principals leading high quality schools and school districts.
National Charter Collaborative
Entrepreneur: Kim Smith
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
Replicating the benefits of well-known, high-growth “networks,” National Charter Collaborative (NCC) collaborates with its members to assess common barriers and partners with funders and service providers to provide scalable solutions. By creating alignment, the NCC will spur opportunities for leaders of color to grow professionally through the network and to develop sustainable schools resulting in a higher-quality education for students.
National Indian Education Association: Native Educator Initiative
Entrepreneur: Diana Cournoyer
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The National Indian Education Association (NIEA), the largest and oldest Native education organization in the nation, was formed with the goal of supporting schools and educational systems in improving the outcomes of Native students. In response to the national teacher shortage, and specifically the Native teacher shortage, NIEA launched the National Educator Initiative which addresses five critical areas for addressing teacher shortages and recruiting Native teachers to Native-serving schools.
Oakland Unified School District: Office of Equity/ Latino Student Achievement
Entrepreneur: Chris Chatmon
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) launched the Latino/a Educator Recruitment & Retention Initiative to recruit and retain Latino/a leadership, including teachers & principals, in Oakland schools.
oneTILT: oneTILT Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Kimberly Diaz
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
oneTILT’s mission is to grow education managers to lead from a place of equity and innovation. To achieve this vision, oneTILT pursues three strategies: 1) oneTILT Fellowship: Program for emerging and current education managers who seek to advance racial diversity, equity, and inclusiveness within their schools and organizations, 2) oneTILT Programming: Training delivered as half-day workshops or 1- to 2-day immersions, and 3) oneTILT Coaching: Coaching for current & emerging managers to apply theory into action, and to provide specific support around all aspects of inclusive management.
Ops360
Entrepreneur: Tanya Lewis
Nonprofit | Founded: 2014 | Visit the Site
Ops360 provides leadership development and training to finance and operations leaders to support the creation, growth, and management of high quality school operations.
Parent Power Lab
Entrepreneur: Spark Bookhart
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
The Parent Power Lab exists to amplify the collective agency of Parents to impact public education in transformative ways by eliminating the institutional and systemic silencing of the collective parent voice in urban education through the Parent Organizing Institute.
Passion Driven Leadership
Entrepreneur: Tyrone Burton
For-profit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Passion Driven Leadership supports the retention of teachers of color by providing leadership coaching and social emotional training to teachers, particularly teachers of color teaching in under-resourced schools. PDL is launching the Passion Driven Teachers Program, an initiative focused on strengthening teachers’ emotional wellness and stress management in order to prevent the burnout typically faced by teachers of color. The program components include building emotional literacy, understanding external factors that impact wellness, coaching and accountability.
PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education): Community Change Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Maya Martin Cadogan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power. That organizing principle is what drives PAVE’s Community Change Fellowship which will equip black, Latino, and/or low-income parents and educators with the skills and networks to assume formal authority in the educational system in DC. The Fellowship will provide the space for parents and educators together to think critically about the role they can best play in DC’s education ecosystem and provide them with the resources, tools, and support in order to accomplish the leadership goals that they set for themselves.
Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium
Entrepreneur: Donna-Marie Cole-Malott
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
The Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium (PEDC) is a grassroots organization of PK-12, higher education, non-profit, and government leaders that aims to increase the number of teachers of color as well as culturally-responsive educators in Pennsylvania. PEDC intends to lead a statewide initiative to support, increase, improve, and enhance the effectiveness of organizations and local education agencies to develop “grow your own” programs and institutions of higher education (IHE) to recruit BIPOC students into their teacher prep programs. PEDC will drive the coordination, planning management and ongoing facilitation of the statewide initiative.
Portland Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Xavier Botana
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Portland Public Schools (PPS) is the largest and most ethnically diverse school district in Maine with a student body made up of roughly 42% students of color. PPS is launching the Elevating Educators initiative focused on providing individualized support and wraparound services to existing staff members, such as paraprofessionals or new-to-the profession educators, to become fully credentialed teachers.
Profound Gentlemen
Entrepreneur: Jason Terrell
Nonprofit | Founded: 2014 | Visit the Site
Profound Gentlemen trains Black and Latino male educators (Impact Leaders) to mentor and lead cohorts of early-career teachers through a yearlong professional development track to build their leadership and impact. All Impact Leaders are current teachers or school leaders that utilize a curriculum developed by Dr. Chance Lewis of the University of North Carolina Charlotte School of Education, Better Lesson, and the PG founders.
Promise54
Entrepreneur: Xiomara Padamsee
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Promise54 is a nonprofit talent solutions provider that supports organizations to build thriving environments where adults can achieve their best outcomes in service to kids. Its leaders believe organizations maximize their impact and truly thrive when their teams are diverse, their cultures are inclusive, and their practices model the equity they wish to see in the world.
Rhode Island School for Progressive Education
Entrepreneur: Christine Alves
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Rhode Island School for Progressive Education (RISPE) is Rhode Island’s first residency-style graduate school of education. RISPE is committed to transforming public education in our state’s urban districts by recruiting and retaining passionate, social justice-minded educators of color and using the evidence-based residency model to prepare them to be exemplary classroom teachers and school leaders.
RISE San Diego: RISE UPP
Entrepreneur: Makeba Jones
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
The RISE Urban Principal Preparation program (RISE UPP) is a leadership program to diversify the principalship for urban schools in the San Diego region.
Rivet School: Educator Pathway
Entrepreneur: Jeff Manassero
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Rivet School is a college program designed to help working adults earn an accredited, affordable, and job-relevant bachelor’s degree in as little as 2-3 years. Rivet School’s Educator Pathway helps school-based employees (like instructional aides and paraprofessionals) earn a bachelor’s degree and become a certified teacher. Fellows also benefit from support with exam prep (CBEST and CSET) and in finding, applying, and transitioning to a high-quality teacher credential program.
