Partners CEO Elected to California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees July 22, 2020 Partners in School Innovation is proud to announce that its CEO, Derek Mitchell, Ph.D., has been elected to the board of trustees of the California Academy of Sciences. Dr. Mitchell is joining a group of highly accomplished

Partners in School Innovation Announces New Partnerships to Boost Achievement for Low-Income Students of Color in Santa Clara County and Philadelphia Public Schools Partnerships will build educator capacity to address systemic inequities magnified by the pandemic June 11, 2020 San Francisco – Partners in School Innovation today announced new partnerships

CEO's Open Letter to Our School District Partners Dear School District Partners, Like you, I am receiving a lot of messages in this tough time, and they range from inspirational stories of solidarity to thinly-veiled efforts to monetize the crisis. At the risk of contributing to the e-clutter, I want

Partners publishes article on need for schools to be trauma-responsive One of our district partnership directors, Shawn Nealy-Oparah, has published an article in the January/February 2020 issue of Leadership, the magazine of the Association of California School Administrators. The article, “The Need for Schools to be Trauma-Responsive: Addressing and understanding

Partners’ Support Helps Bring About Strong Learning Gains in West Contra Costa, CA The Kennedy family of schools’ long tenure as the lowest-performing feeder pattern in West Contra Costa Unified School District appears to be ending as recently released test score data shows that academic achievement in most Kennedy family

Implementing Best Practices in a Professional Learning Network In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia and with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Partners in School Innovation began supporting a network of ten Philadelphia schools focused on improving math instruction in the fall of 2018. Partners has brought