Launching NewSchools Catapult: Invent 2015
By Scott Benson in Entrepreneur onAt NewSchools Venture Fund, we have always had a great affection for early-stage school entrepreneurs who are (re)imagining, (re)designing,…
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…
NewSchools’ Strategy at a Glance
Over the past month, we have been sharing a couple of the pillars of our strategy going forward. The…
Investing in Tools & Services that Support Innovative Schools
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing some information about our investment strategy at NewSchools.In a January 13…
Investment Approaches of the Seed Fund – Part III
Tools to Differentiate Instruction in a One-Size-Fits-All Education SystemLast weekend, I sat in a sewing class with my ten year…
Where are K-12 Edtech Venture Backed Startups Based?
This is the first post in a series to spotlight trends in K-12 edtech venture funding data.Advantageous location of…
Investment Approaches of the Seed Fund- Part II
Last week I shared some of our thinking behind our investments in STEM, relevance and communication, found here. With this…
Brooke Breaks New Ground in Student Achievement
Students at Brooke Charter Schools are 98% black and Latino. Across Brooke’s three Boston campuses, 80% of students qualify…
UP Shakes Up District Instruction
In 2008, Scott Given left his position as Principal at Excel Academy Charter School in East Boston, Massachusetts. Like…
Youth UpRising: Changing a Community, One Young Person at a Time
In the Castlemont neighborhood of East Oakland, one in four people live in poverty. The teenage pregnancy rate is…
TinyTap Taps into Educational Games and Interactive Lessons
Just as indie coders can create hot new apps, teachers and students can develop educational content with widespread appeal.…
Real Pain Points, Real Solutions: Oakland Startup Weekend Education
When we met Nina Portugal two weeks ago at a Teach For America information session about Oakland’s first-ever Startup…
Video: NewSchools Entrepreneurs Celebrate Our Work Together in This Holiday Video
It is that time of year when we reflect on what occurred in the past and what we have…
Welcome Zach Levine, Learning to Teach EIR
How are we meant to prepare our children for a harder future when we don’t have enough teachers, let…
NewSchools Invests in Accelerator to Elevate Leaders of Color
It is often stated that education is the civil rights issue of our time. While there are many aspects…
Book Smarts vs Street Smarts: aka Edtech Founders as Action Researchers
Last week I was in Boston visiting two of our portfolio companies, BetterLesson and Socrative. Spending time with entrepreneurs…
Announcing Readworks.org: The Best Kept Secret in Reading Comprehension
We are thrilled to welcome Readworks.org to the Seed Fund portfolio. It’s a humble and hardworking nonprofit, with a…
Learning in 2028
We are happy to make recordings of all the Summit 2013 sessions available to you. You can also check…
Innovators in Education
After 15 years of working to improve education by supporting and enabling the ideas and efforts of passionate innovators,…
Lessons from Mark Pincus
A great sales and marketing executive I once worked with was fond of saying: “If you don’t know you’re…
