Impact Story

Why Now Is the Moment to Reimagine Teaching

How Generative AI Can Engage and Empower Students

A Cognitive Scientist Turns a Personal Struggle into a Mission for Inclusive Learning

Investing in a Bright Future For All Students: 2023 Trends

Empowering students with learning differences: What we’ve learned in our first year of investing

Results from 2022 – What We Measured and Why it Mattered

Why We’re Leading with Optimism, Imagination, and Ambition in 2023

Rewriting the Rules: How to Make Teaching More Diverse, Rewarding, and Sustainable

Don’t Give Up on Big, Long-Term Bets

How Philanthropy Can Help Schools Deliver on the Promise of a Historic Investment 

A Shifting Landscape: How Innovative Schools Are Moving Forward

4 Inclusive Practices to Improve Grantmaking with Communities

What We’ve Learned from our Focus on Excellence and Equity in Education Innovation

Becoming the Next CEO of NewSchools

Advancing an Integrated Vision for Excellence, Innovation, and Equity

Trends Emerging From Our First 62 Investments in 2021

New Research: More Principals of Color May Be the Key to Diversifying the Teacher Workforce

How One School Built Systems to Support its Most Vulnerable Students

What are pandemic pods, and what do they mean for education?

Do Black Lives Matter in Education Reform?

Keep the older kids at home and use middle and high schools for elementary students

Eight Reasons I’m Hopeful for Racial Justice and Equity

How Leopards Change Their Spots: Five Attributes of Schools That Successfully Transitioned to Distance Learning

School Redesign: Partnerships that Fit

There are many paths to becoming a model provider; the path for Appletree was nontraditional.

What I’m Grateful for This Season: Education Innovators

Five Things We’re Learning from Schools in Our Portfolio

How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech – Part Three

How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech – Part Two

How Entrepreneurs are Tackling Challenges in Ed Tech 

AppleTree: How Social Innovations Scale to Become Model Providers

ICYMI at Summit 2018: Failing Forward

Reposted from Medium.com: Here’s What We’re Learning From Schools

Reposted from Medium.com — Sneak Peek at our New Ed Tech Research Framework

Preparing for a Wakanda Future

SEL – Learning From the Field

A Calculated Approach – Supporting Excellence in Public Education

Creating an Intentionally Diverse School: Lessons Learned

Guest Post: What Does it Mean to Redesign a School?

What’s the Future of Innovation in Education? 

Reposted From EdSurge: Coming Full Circle – Giving Thanks to Teachers Who Change Lives