Empower Schools partners with communities to help them get the schools they want with the results students need. We work with district & community leaders, educators, state education agencies and funders to align interests and develop pathways for change. Empower's approach combines the autonomies and energetic innovation of charter schools with the critical commitment to universal service and local voice of districts. We have a growing track record of success in Massachusetts and Colorado, as the design and launch partner of the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership and Denver’s first Innovation Zone. We inform and shape policies and share learnings to help advance the Third Way.
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This article is part of a Bridgespan Group research project that focuses on exploring the design features of “Innovation Zones” around the country including efforts in Springfield and in Denver where Empower served as a design and launch partner. ...
Feb 23 2018
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This article is part of a Bridgespan Group research project that focuses on exploring the design features of “Innovation Zones” around the country including efforts in Springfield and in Denver where Empower served as a design and launch partner. ...
Feb 23 2018
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The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership and the people involved in its design and initial implementation take center stage in a new paper by Ashley Jochim of The Center on Reinventing Public ...
Apr 26 2017
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In this report leading government management improvement strategist Eric Schnurer takes a look at the context in which the SEZP was conceived and developed, the core principles and strategies that it operates with, and the initial impact it is having on school leaders, teachers, and district leadership. ...
Jan 25 2017
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Innovation Partnership Zones, as they are called in Representative Peisch's proposal, share the same general structure as the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership: an independent, interlocking board of directors, a performance contract with the local district, and a pathway to a new, negotiated collective bargaining agreement that allows more teacher voice at the school level. ...
Jan 13 2017
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It has been exciting to see Denver Public Schools leadership so enthusiastic about the promise of the Empowerment Zone model that they are considering launching their own call for Zones and re-fashioning the district’s theory of action to reflect a 'schools as the unit of change'- a central tenet of Zone, and Empower Schools ...
Dec 20 2016