Editor’s notice: Tiffany Taylor is a Companion and Co-President at ASU+GSV Summit and Companion at GSV Ventures, devoted to advancing innovation, fairness, and alternative in schooling and workforce improvement.
GSV is a world platform supporting and investing in schooling and workforce expertise innovation. At our core we’re traders, connectors and conveners. And we do exactly that with our Google GSV Training Innovation Fellowship, a program that gives Ok-12 Superintendents, Chief Educational Officers and top-level tutorial leaders with studying and mentorship alternatives. Right here’s how this system began — and a have a look at what our fellows are engaged on now.
It began with a easy query. In 2021, Deborah Quazzo, Managing Companion of GSV Ventures and Co-Founding father of the ASU+GSV Summit, requested me a query that I haven’t stopped excited about since: “What does it seem like for GSV to actually spend money on revolutionary schooling leaders?” I wrote that query on a sticky notice and positioned it on my monitor, the place it nonetheless sits at this time.
Deborah additionally invited me to affix a name with Jennie Magiera, Google’s World Head of Training Impression. As Jennie and I shared the methods during which every of our organizations have been rising and evolving schooling leaders, we had an thought: We may carry collectively chief tutorial officers and superintendents to dream, strategize and take motion on the intersection of know-how and instruction.
The Google GSV Training Innovation Fellowship, which began in 2023, affords fellows the possibility to discover rising applied sciences, refine management expertise via government teaching and collaborate on tasks that drive actual, sustainable change. Fellows have been chosen via a course of that included a written utility and a telephone interview with Google for Training and GSV staff members. We partnered with different organizations to assist schooling leaders develop a district-wide initiative, or “transformational alternative.”
Fellows led over 45 initiatives that targeted on all the pieces from constructing trainer capability with AI to bettering instruction, enhancing pupil suggestions and making ready for the long run. This included LearnKit.ai, a district-wide AI resolution to equip leaders with actionable insights, and the The Stage Up Lynwood undertaking, which goals to revolutionize schooling within the Lynwood Unified Faculty District by increasing entry to massive language fashions and generative AI. Insights and assets from Cohort 1 may be present in a thematically curated Digital Lookbook. The Lookbook for the second cohort shall be accessible for viewing in April 2025.
A single query and a shared dedication led us to the place we’re at this time: 50 leaders, 50 districts and over 3.5 million college students affected. Collectively, we’re not simply imagining the way forward for schooling — we’re constructing it. Training leaders can apply for Cohort 3 in April 2025.
