2008-09 DonorS - Partners in School Innovation

there is a hefty price to our nation’s current educational practices. On average, african american and Latino
students living in poverty are 2 to 3 years behind whites and Asians in academic achievement. The disparity some
children face in their quality of education perpetuates dire social and economic inequalities which impact our entire
community: lower earnings, poorer health, higher rates of incarceration and reduced civic engagement.
partners in school Innovation believes that the greatest civil rights issue of our generation is to develop public schools
that enable children of all races and economic backgrounds to excel academically and to thrive as learners. We
are proud to have enabled such success for tens of thousands of students in the san Francisco Bay area since our
founding in 1993. Now, we are ready to demonstrate our ability to transform public education and children’s lives on
a wider scale, first by expanding to serve the state of california and then, through partnerships, making our imprint
on the national education reform agenda.
BY 2015 PartnersSI aImS to...
• Demonstrate breakthrough student learning results on an unprecedented scale in urban school
districts in and outside california
• cultivate national awareness and understanding of how to implement our model for
transforming low-performing schools
• Build a sustainable funding model that allows for further growth and impact
our StratEgIES for groWth anD ImPact
• replication and Expansion - Grow from 3 to 10 districts, intensively implementing our
core service model at select school sites and doubling the statewide rate of improvement
in student learning at these schools
• Strategic Services - partner with district and school leaders to develop their internal capacity
to implement our model and lead the process of school transformation without intensive
on-site support
• Knowledge Sharing - refine and codify our methodology for broad dissemination
through the Web and publications
• Strategic alliances - collaborate with vision-aligned and high-impact organizations
to integrate respective areas of expertise and extend our influence nationally
our goalS to achIEVE fInancIal SuStaInaBIlItY
• secure $10 million in growth capital over the next 5 years to develop organizational
capacity and infrastructure
• Increase earned income in the form of public funding
• reduce cost to serve while maintaining high quality of results
VISIon 2015
school Innovation because we said the way to be
partner – to live with, to be with, to strive with the
the schools as they learn how to do their work
achieve greater success. this idea of partnership
of the organization today.” — Julien Phillips, PartnersSI Co-Founder
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