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Anjana Deva and the question that comes before the answer
At Crimson World School in Varanasi, Anjana Deva asks students to think beyond the next examination. Her public work connects academic effort with a more personal task: learning how to choose.
Molly Gortz Took the Principal's Questions to a National Stage
After years leading charter schools in Brooklyn and Cleveland, Molly Gortz now works with networks nationwide - carrying the habits of a principal into the decidedly less tidy world of education data.
Julie Jackson
Julie Jackson is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit network of high-performing public charter schools serving roughly 20,000 students across New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. The first Black Co-CEO in the organization's history, she has spent three decades in education, starting as a Teach For America corps member in Paterson, New Jersey in 1994 and rising from founding teacher and principal to President and now Co-CEO. She oversees all 53 K-12 Uncommon Schools and has trained more than 25,000 teachers and leaders across the United States and abroad. Known for her belief that schools should be places of both joy and rigor, she is a recognized voice on teacher development, college completion, and equity in urban public education.