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Helping schools extend the reach of excellent teachers, principals, and their teams to more students, for more pay, within budget—providing educator career opportunities and enabling student growth.
Public Impact is a team of professionals from many backgrounds, including former teachers and principals, who want to devise and advance visionary but practical ideas to improve K–12 education. We are researchers, thought leaders, policy experts, tool-builders, and on-the-ground change-makers who work with education leaders.
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We provide innovative solutions, level-headed research and customized service for clients who want to dramatically improve learning outcomes for all students. Through our thought leadership, we help our clients engage in dramatic change that is supported by teachers, administrators, and their communities.
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Our clients include private foundations, federal, state and local policymakers, innovative districts, charter authorizers, education nonprofits, and other change-oriented leaders. Our partners include teachers and education organizations interested in identifying and implementing bold ideas that achieve impact. Interested in learning more or working with us? Contact us!
Helping schools extend the reach of excellent teachers, principals, and their teams to more students, for more pay, within budget—providing educator career opportunities and enabling student growth.
Designing and helping implement policies and approaches to prepare, recruit, select, evaluate, develop, compensate, and retain teachers and principals who help students succeed.
Helping educators use technology to personalize instruction and give all students access to excellent teaching.
Bringing the best experience from successes in other sectors and education to provide strategic planning, tools, and support for policymakers and educators attempting turnarounds.
Helping education leaders get the right funding flowing to the highest-impact uses, promoting equity, better outcomes for students, and a better profession for educators.
Using our decades of leadership to help state and local leaders plan strategically, craft quality-focused policy, and strengthen authorizing to help schools excel with students.
Using our unmatched thought leadership and experience with charter schools, turnarounds, and innovations for great teachers and principals, school design, funding, technology, parent support, community engagement and data analysis to help states, localities, districts, charter organizations, funders, and nonprofits choose the right strategies for dramatic improvements.
Public Impact, LLC
Chapel Hill, NC
919-240-7955
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