By Stacey Childress, CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
Enthusiasm for social emotional learning has reached a fever pitch among policymakers and funders. Whether it’s framed as a focus on the whole child, comprehensive student development or a richer vision for student…
Andrew Coulson, Chief Data Science Officer of MIND Research Institute, on leveraging the right data (not just big data)
We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from three years of ed tech investing. In the brief, we…
An Interview with Komal Dadlani, Co-founder and CEO of Lab4U, on getting into classrooms early and often to build a great product
We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from three years of ed tech investing. In…
An Interview with Peter Gault, Co-founder and Executive Director of Quill.org, on designing for student differences
We recently released an insight brief on what we’re learning from three years of ed tech investing. In the brief, we identified three consistent…
How do social innovations scale? KIPP began as a charter school, became a charter management organization, and then a network of charter management organizations. AVID started as a single school program, which grew to a countywide initiative, and…
Guest post by Cristina DeJesus, CEO of Green Dot Public Schools
This is the second in a series of insights and reflections from panelists who spoke at NewSchools Summit 2018. The series can also be found on Medium.
It’s really…
Our team at NewSchools has been wrestling with a challenge. While there is growing consensus that schools should focus on more than reading and math scores, the field lacks agreement on which additional indicators are most important and how to…
This blog was also cross-posted on Medium.
I’m an ed tech investor. It’s my job to keep an eye on the future. What I’m seeing on the horizon is exciting, but also a bit scary. The world of work is…
This blog was also cross-posted on Medium.
Earlier this month, I moderated a panel at LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries conference with an inspiring group of educators. We were discussing one of my favorite topics: integrating social emotional learning (SEL) into classroom…
