Industry Education Headquarters California, United States Number of employees 54 | Operating income Founded 1993 | |
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Type Non-profit organization Key people Derek S. Mitchell, Ph.D., CEO Website www.partnersinschools.org Similar New Teacher Center, San Francisco Educatio, WestEd, The New Teacher Project, W K Kellogg Foundation Profiles | ||
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Partners in School Innovation (Partners) is a national education reform non-profit headquartered in San Francisco that aims to transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools. Partners does this by developing the capacity of teachers and education leaders to engage in self-reflective Results-Oriented Cycles of Inquiry (ROCI), a proprietary adaptation of continuous improvement methodology for public school districts.
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History
Partners in School Innovation was founded in 1993 with the aim of eliminating the racial achievement gap in public education. Co-founders Julien Phillips, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and McKinsey & Co. partner, and Kim Grose, a Rhodes scholar and social justice advocate, saw a need for major institutional change in the educational system. They began a model to create systemic improvements in low-performing schools by enlisting the support of AmeriCorps members, or “Partners.”
Overview
Partners in School Innovation (Partners) works closely with urban school districts to transform the quality of teaching and learning for African American, Latino and English learner students in low-income communities. Since its inception, Partners has worked alongside teachers and leaders in multi-year partnerships in more than 80 public schools and 15 districts. In 2012, the organization brought its model to Battle Creek, Michigan with the support of a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Since then, Partners has scaled its impact to Grand Rapids (Michigan), Albuquerque (New Mexico) and the Mississippi Delta while deepening engagements across three districts in California.