Location: San Francisco, CA

Partners in School Innovation (PartnersSI) is a service organization working to transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing U.S. public schools so that every child, regardless of background, thrives in schools. PartnersSI believes that the single strongest lever for increasing student achievement is to improve the quality of teaching in schools. PartnersSI applies a research-based, systematic approach to achieving school and district transformation. Its staff work alongside school and district colleagues to achieve significant gains in student achievement, as well as build the organizational capacity required to sustain these results.

Since its founding in 1993, PartnersSI has partnered with over 10 districts and 50 schools serving over 65,000 students, teachers, and principals. By 2021, the organization plans to enable the successful transformation of at least three diverse urban school districts outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, help to train 10,000 educator change agents in districts around the country, and inform federal, state, and local policy arenas on districts, school, and teacher effectiveness.

To learn more about PartnersSI, please visit http://www.partnersinschools.org/

Location: San Francisco, CA

The Stupski Foundation is a private, not-for-profit operating foundation whose mission is to improve life options for children of color and poverty through transformation of the public education system.

The Stupski Foundation believes we need a public education system that meets the demands, realities and needs of today’s youth, and engages them actively in their own learning. To get there, we see youth and teachers leading a learning revolution that reinvents American education.  To learn more about Stupski Foundation, please visit us at:  http://www.stupski.org/

The Learning Lab Network:
To help spark innovation in learning, The Stupski Foundation, alongside key partners, has built a network of high school learning labs. The network will undertake a continuous testing and improvement cycle in classrooms to transform learning by incorporating student agency and technology. By sharing the pioneering learning already underway in these schools, we can connect, accelerate and ignite new activities in classrooms that engage youth in the important work facing our schools: conquer academic content, learn to work together, solve complex problems, and apply what works. To ensure that learnings are shared across networks and catalyze important changes in policy, this initiative is aligned with the Council of Chief State School Officers’ Partnership for Next Generation learning and the Innovation Lab Network.

Over the next three years, the Learning Labs will design, test and transform learning. To build a shared evidence base, labs will take common assessments, exchange data with each other, and engage in continuous improvement cycles as we learn what works. Through these repeated cycles, the labs will discover and document concrete practices that improve student agency, embed technology and ultimately result in dramatically increased student learning. Over time, this vital network of innovators will champion the learning successes and promote the practices that empower and educate young people. Together as a network, armed with data, student work, and stories of transformation, we will reinvent American education and expand life opportunities for all youth.

Location: Silicon Valley, CA

Founded in 2002 through a partnership between the San Jose Unified School District, Breakthrough Collaborative, and Applied Materials, Breakthrough Silicon Valley is a six-year, year-round, tuition-free academic and college readiness program committed to educational equity.  With an annual budget of approximately $500,000 and projected to grow to 1M in the next three years, , BSV provides middle school students with challenging out of school time classes and enriching activities and supports these students through their high school years to ensure that they enroll at top-tier colleges and universities.  Simultaneously, BSV trains talented high school and college students for careers in education.  The mission of BSV is to prepare motivated middle school students with limited educational opportunities for success in college-preparatory high school programs and entry into four-year colleges; and to prepare outstanding high school and college students to enter careers in education. .  As a member of the national Breakthrough Collaborative, BSV is affiliated with more than 30 programs across the country that share a similar mission based on the unique “students teaching students” model.

Breakthrough Silicon Valley is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that operates with a committed Board of Directors, talented staff, and strong community partnerships.  With a stable funding base and balanced budget, BSV is well poised to embark on its next exciting phase. 

Location: San Fransico, CA

Breakthrough Collaborative (“Breakthrough”) is a leading national educational service organization.  Breakthrough has a dual mission: (1)  to prepare highly-motivated, under-resourced middle and high school students to enter and thrive in four-year colleges, and (2) to inspire and develop talented high school and college students as teachers and mentors to the younger students, and to pursue careers in the field of education.

The national headquarters of Breakthrough leads a collaborative of 33 sites across the United States and in Hong Kong by establishing and promoting high standards, ensuring their success, and acting as their national voice.  Breakthrough has been recognized as one of the 2010 winners of the Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation, as the nation’s top summer academic program by the John Hopkins Center for Summer Learning in 2007, and as the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Klingenstein Leadership Award from the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org