
OPPORTUNITY CULTURE:
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, 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.
Chapel Hill, NC
919-240-7955
919-903-8649 fax
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Supporting Quality—Growing Clark County Charters
Report and executive summary examine Clark County’s educational landscape and how to support and grow high-quality charters there
Employment Opportunities—Applications due December 5, 2016
Public Impact is seeking candidates for analyst for summer 2017 start dates. Smart, driven candidates committed to excellence please apply!
Coaching and Developing Turnaround Leader Actions—Professional Learning Module
This professional learning module describes how to coach and develop turnaround leaders to take key leader actions.
Coaching for Impact—Six Pillars
Learning Forward, Lastinger Center, and Public Impact call for great coaching for all teachers