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Driving Student Learning by Reimagining Teaching
A growing number of schools are rethinking teaching by treating student success and educator development as deeply connected. This post explores four school models showing how collaboration, shared leadership, and continuous learning can improve student outcomes while making teaching more sustainable.
Deepening NewSchools’ Support for Strategic Collaboration
NewSchools and Deloitte are helping education nonprofits explore mission-aligned strategic collaborations, including partnerships, shared services, and mergers. Through a survey, webinars, and future support, leaders can assess options to strengthen impact, sustainability, and long-term readiness.
Building What’s Next: Learning Our Way Forward
As we begin 2026, NewSchools is focused on two things: following through on our commitments, and learning in real time from the work our ventures
Educator Roles in the Age of AI: Shaping a Shared Path Forward
Artificial intelligence is expanding what’s possible in teaching and learning — while also introducing new complexity for educators and students. Drawing on conversations with more than 40 organizations at the forefront of AI in education, this brief explores how AI can support, rather than supplant, the human work of teaching, and outlines emerging insights for building more effective, sustainable, and joyful learning environments.
Courage, Community, and What Comes Next: Reflections from Frances Messano
A 2025 year-end reflection on how courageous educators, innovators, and 80 NewSchools ventures advanced student learning, from reading and math to AI-powered supports.
AI Won’t Transform Teaching and Learning — Unless It’s Built for All Learners
Our education system was never built with every learner in mind, especially students who learn and think differently. One in five students has a learning