Shawn Rubin

… I’ve been trained to think that my own individual agency has shaped my success and leadership. But my birth circumstance and color of my skin have deeply shaped the opportunities I’ve been provided throughout my life, and the lens in which I see myself leading change in education. I’ve learned that if Nellie Mae is interested in making a bigger change, this means getting more co…

I want to start by acknowledging that philanthropic organizations have a privilege where they get to stop and start things in ways that are often abrupt for the people they build relationships with. This is not lost on me. That’s one of the reasons why we’re taking more than a year to really ask p…

…dness to reimagine what’s possible for students, radically elevating beliefs about their potential. Yet it also takes humility to recognize that what we describe as personalized learning is an extension of what Maria Montessori was doing a century ago. And while there are more questions to answer and new science to bring to bear, this work is not si…