State Education Agency Fellowship

Championing innovations that create durable change for public schools.

State education agencies (SEAs) should act strategically and proactively to create the conditions for meaningful transformation and improvement.

This learning community is an opportunity for state education leaders to redesign school systems at scale.

Meet the Fellows

Fellow Bios

Our 2025-2027 cohort of senior education professionals are bringing innovation to their state agencies.

New Mexico

New York

Indiana

South Carolina

Colorado

Fmr. Virginia

Maine

Oklahoma

Delaware

Fellowship Focus

Over the course of two years, Fellows will be exposed to some of the most innovative efforts in the country, receive coaching and mentorship from experienced education leaders, and work with others in their own state agency to pilot new projects and/or accelerate promising ones.

Our goal is for each Fellow to pilot or accelerate policies that enable innovative conditions in their state. State education agencies will catalyze public schools in their state to design best-in-class K-12 programs that drive student outcomes in their state.

Building the structures and enabling conditions that allow public schools to apply innovative models that are adaptive to student and community needs.
Remixing K-12, postsecondary and the workforce to create pathways to careers that provide family-sustaining wages and drive economic growth in your state.
Setting and achieving ambitious goals that drive K-12 student progress in context and build the strategies needed to sustain them overtime.

Program Details

Phase I

School Year 2025-2026

Outcomes Driven Design

Cohort Launch

In addition to learning from peer SEA Fellows, participants will receive professional learning from experts in the field. Development focus:
Action Readiness Assessment
Prioritizing new ways to incentivize innovation
Planning integrated supports that enable innovative and durable public district schools

Schedule