Advancing an Integrated Vision for Excellence, Innovation, and Equity
By Stacey Childress in Future of Work onBy Stacey Childress, Chief Executive OfficerAs NewSchools prepares for a new chapter under our incoming CEO, Frances Messano, I…
MacKenzie Scott Makes Historic Gift to NewSchools Venture Fund
By Frances Messano and Stacey ChildressWe are thrilled to announce that NewSchools Venture Fund has received an incredible $35M…
Five Things We’re Learning from Schools in Our Portfolio
By Stacey Childress, CEO, NewSchools Venture FundEnthusiasm for social emotional learning has reached a fever pitch among policymakers and…
Reposted from Medium.com: Here’s What We’re Learning From Schools
By Stacey Childress in Uncategorized onOur team at NewSchools has been wrestling with a challenge. While there is growing consensus that schools should focus…
An Intentional Decision to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
By Stacey Childress in Diverse Leaders onToday, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) is releasing a case study that chronicles our ongoing efforts at NewSchools to become…
Fostering More Productive Dialogue and Action
By Stacey Childress in Diverse Leaders onToday, together with the American Enterprise Institute, we are releasing a summary of a private roundtable discussion we co-hosted in…
Reposted From EdSurge: What Could $4 Billion Do for American Education?
The following post was originally published on EdSurge by Stacey Childress:Every January, it’s customary to make resolutions and predictions for…
Now’s the Time to Reimagine Learning
By Stacey Childress in Diverse Leaders, Ed Tech, Entrepreneur, Innovative Public Schools, NewSchools Ventures, Personalized Learning onAnd, if you think so, too...we should be talking. NewSchools invests in the most creative ideas and supports visionary…
Why We Support Innovative Schools
By Stacey Childress in Entrepreneur, Innovative Public Schools, NewSchools Ventures, Personalized Learning onWe love graduation season at NewSchools! It reminds us why we support innovative schools.A big part of our work is…
One Student’s Experience in an Innovative School
By Stacey Childress in Innovative Public Schools, NewSchools Ventures, Personalized Learning, Summit onLast week we announced our latest round of investments in teams launching innovative schools in Fall 2016 and Fall…
Let’s Get to Work: A Response to Robert Pondiscio
By Stacey Childress in Summit on“Any group that only associates with like-minded people is susceptible to becoming extreme, inflexible, self-righteous, and losing its ability…
Exciting New Evidence about the Promise of Personalized Learning
By Stacey Childress in Personalized Learning onThe number of schools designed for personalized learning is growing rapidly. At NewSchools, we’re helping teams of educators launch…
Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster toward New School Models
Today, Diane Tavenner, Aylon Samouha, Jeff Wetzler and I released a paper called Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster toward…
Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster Toward New School Models (FINAL)
By Stacey Childress in Uncategorized onAmerican young people deserve a better model of schooling. Creating it requires us to rethink the way we design…
Announcing Summit 2015 Closing Speaker: Ben Jealous
By Stacey Childress in Summit onNewSchools Summit 2015 is just a couple of days away! I’ve been to many Summits over the years, but…
Three Tips for Picking a Personalized Learning Framework
By Stacey Childress in Personalized Learning onTeams of educators all over the country are launching new schools and redesigning existing ones, and they are eager…
Trip Notes: SXSWedu 2015
Last week I was in Austin for SXSWedu, which I’ve attended every year since its launch. I thought I’d…
Announcing Summit 2015 Opening Speaker: Brené Brown
By Stacey Childress in Summit onWe are honored to announce that Brené Brown will join us as the opening plenary speaker at Summit 2015 on…
New Talent to Support Our Strategy
By Stacey Childress in NewSchools Ventures onA couple of weeks ago we shared an infographic about our strategic direction over the next few years.New folks…
NewSchools’ Strategy at a Glance
Over the past month, we have been sharing a couple of the pillars of our strategy going forward. The…
