Big happenings in edu-land today. Andy Rotherham, education policy leader, founder of Ed Sector, and the fingers behind Eduwonk, is helping launch "Bellwether Education Partners,"??a new full-service nonprofit to help education reform organizations. He's partnering up with NewSchools co-founder Kim Smith, former Bain consultant??Mary Wells, and Monisha Lozier,??formerly of Korn/Ferry.
A NewSchools press release describes the new venture as:
A new nonprofit consulting organization designed to strengthen the leadership and organizational capacity of entrepreneurial education organizations by offering specialized executive search, strategic consulting, leadership development, and thought leadership services.
I've discussed Rotherham's virtues before, so I'm happy for him and for the ed reform world. It sounds like Bellwether will provide important services for some of this space's best and most promising organizations. And, pardon the pun, when a handful of talented people team up to do something new, that's a bellwether in itself. This suggests that education entrepreneurialism still has a positive slope. Hooray.
Good luck all.
Update: per Ed Week, the talented Sara Mead is on board too.
--Andy Smarick