Building Better Schools: A Proven Blueprint for Success

Why Now Is the Moment to Reimagine Teaching

Summit 2024 Sessions

How an Expanded Definition of Student Success Drives Learning: Three New Insights

How Generative AI Can Engage and Empower Students

A Cognitive Scientist Turns a Personal Struggle into a Mission for Inclusive Learning

Education Fuels Progress: Our 2024-26 Strategy

Building better and braver coalitions is just the beginning

Investing in a Bright Future For All Students: 2023 Trends

Leading at the Edge: A Story 25 Years in the Making 

Empowering students with learning differences: What we’ve learned in our first year of investing

Results from 2022 – What We Measured and Why it Mattered

Why We’re Leading with Optimism, Imagination, and Ambition in 2023

NewSchools Venture Fund Welcomes New Chief Executive Officer

Rewriting the Rules: How to Make Teaching More Diverse, Rewarding, and Sustainable

Don’t Give Up on Big, Long-Term Bets

An expanded definition of student success should guide the pandemic-era learning recovery

How Philanthropy Can Help Schools Deliver on the Promise of a Historic Investment 

NewSchools Launches a New Live, Interactive Series Lifting Up What Works In Education 

A Shifting Landscape: How Innovative Schools Are Moving Forward

4 Inclusive Practices to Improve Grantmaking with Communities

Summit 2022 Sessions

What We’ve Learned from our Focus on Excellence and Equity in Education Innovation

Becoming the Next CEO of NewSchools

Advancing an Integrated Vision for Excellence, Innovation, and Equity

NewSchools Venture Fund and Walton Family Foundation announce 15 new grantees working to recruit, retain, and support teachers of color

Council of Parents, Students, and Innovators Selects Grantees to Receive $1.5 Million Investment for Racial Equity

Announcing New Chief Executive Officer in January 2023

Unlocking the Potential of Students with Learning Differences

We’re Listening and Learning With You: Announcing Our 2022 Funding Opportunity 

Our Promise and Plan of Action for the Year Ahead

MacKenzie Scott Makes Historic Gift to NewSchools Venture Fund

Schools Need Support to Reinvent Themselves. Will Philanthropy Step Up to Help?

Ceding Power: NewSchools Shifts Grantmaking Power to Parents, Students, and Education Innovators

Trends Emerging From Our First 62 Investments in 2021

Building a Thriving Community of Latinx Educators in a City with Fewer than 1% of Them

Increasing Teacher Diversity Through Innovation

NewSchools Venture Fund Welcomes New Chief External Affairs Officer

NewSchools CEO Stacey Childress Included in Forbes 50 Over 50: Impact List

Seeing the World Differently – A Summer Reading List (Summit 2021)

My First and Only Latina Teacher: Why Teacher Diversity Matters

Investors Often Ignore Entrepreneurs of Color. NewSchools Venture Fund Wants to Change That

A Major K-12 Funder Takes the Participatory Grantmaking Plunge

How Schools Can Center Student and Teacher Wellbeing

How Partners Can Support Schools to Rebuild and Reimagine Learning

Summit 2021 Full Session Videos

Dream Capital for Innovators Advancing Racial Equity in Education

In Pursuit of Justice

Diverse Leaders: Our Time is Now

NewSchools President Frances Messano Featured by Inside Philanthropy

Open Funding Opportunity! Literacy Solutions to Empower Black, Latino, and Low-income Students

Big News! NewSchools Venture Fund Announces New Strategy and Leadership

NewSchools Venture Fund Announces $6 Million in Funding for Education Innovators

Chief Innovation Officer Toolkit

Digital Learning Tools Teachers Say They Use Most Often

New Research: More Principals of Color May Be the Key to Diversifying the Teacher Workforce

Students Assessments Aren’t Delivering on Their Promise for Accountability or Equity

Top 10 Takeaways from the NewSchools-Gallup Survey for Ed Tech Innovators

NewSchools/Gallup Poll on Distance Learning

Like Airlines, Schools Can Fall Victim to ‘Press-On-Itis.’ 6 Ways to Make Sure Reopening Plans Can Adapt as Circumstances Change

We Helped Two Schools Create Reopening Plans — Here Are Five Lessons

How One School Built Systems to Support its Most Vulnerable Students

What are pandemic pods, and what do they mean for education?

Do Black Lives Matter in Education Reform?

Keep the older kids at home and use middle and high schools for elementary students

How to Meet Students’ Social-Emotional and Academic Needs When Schools Reopen

Eight Reasons I’m Hopeful for Racial Justice and Equity

Beyond survival: Planning for a world where equity work thrives

School District Superintendents to Ed Tech: “Here’s how to work with us right now.”

COVID-19 is Upending What “Schooltime” Means. And that’s a good thing.

Charter School Authorizers Must Rebalance Accountability, Flexibility, and Support During the Pandemic

Three Principles School Leaders Can Use to Reduce COVID-19 Risk

Our Moral Imperative: Racial Equity and the Public School System

Reducing Bias in Virtual Teacher Hiring

Four Silver Linings in the Homeschool Hot Mess

When and How to Explore a Nonprofit Merger

Schools can stay virtually connected to their families. Here’s how.

How Leopards Change Their Spots: Five Attributes of Schools That Successfully Transitioned to Distance Learning

NewSchools Venture Fund’s Ed Tech Experts on COVID-19 Distance Learning

SEL Has Never Been More Important: Three Equity-Focused Tools to Use at Home

School Redesign: Partnerships that Fit

Using Technology to Enhance Early Learning

Promising Developments in Ed Tech for K-12 Science

Overview of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program for Entrepreneurs

NewSchools/WestEd Ed Tech Product Review Rubric

Logic Models: Ensuring Your Product Has Impact

Leveraging Math Research in Ed Tech Product Development

Growth Mindset & Ed Tech Design

Exploring gaps in outcomes for students with disabilities

Exploring ELL research: Key Takeaways for Ed Tech Developers

Access and Shifting the Digital Divide

Competency Based Learning: State of the U.S. K-12 Market

Literature Review: Education Technology and Science

Literature Review: Education Technology and Mathematics

Literature Review: Education Technology and English Language Learning

Literature Review: Education Technology and Early Learning

Optimizing Ed Tech for an Expanded Definition of Student Success – A Research Review for Ed Tech Developers

Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Market Map

Special Education Ed Tech Challenge

Science Learning Ed Tech Challenge