Over the past two years, the Stupski Foundation has engaged in an intensive effort to build a vision and chart a course to transform our public education system. We have studied and consulted with experts in education, research and development, innovation, cross-sector collaboration, new technologies and systems change. We have deepened our internal capacity and built a network of like-minded colleagues to drive our transformation work forward.

Children in our public schools, particularly children of color and poverty, stand little chance of receiving a world class public education unless we act to create an entirely new system with two critical objectives in our sights: 1) to define and embed a learner-centered, personalized approach to instruction and learning in all our schools, and 2) to create a new system of governance, administration and delivery at multiple levels (school, community, district, state and federal) that supports personalized learning. These objectives form the Stupski Foundation’s core work.

We understand the barriers to transforming education systems. Restrictive regulations, public and political resistance, scarce access to resources and know-how are a few of the challenges that face education leaders committed to transformation. Our priority is to partner with state education leaders to break through barriers and create the conditions they need to pursue a transformation agenda at the state, district and school levels.

Our strategy is to create an innovation network of education leaders at the district, state and federal levels who will work closely together as key architects of a new learner-centered public education system. In the months to come, we will be developing and sharing the larger components of this strategy as they emerge.