
Congratulations to our winners!
Congratulations to our entire Teacherpreneur cohort! We are so proud of the work they put in and are excited to see what is next for them and their ideas.
First Place
Dr. Jennifer Love
Jennifer Love designed an idea to incorporate a social-emotional learning curriculum in student athletics to provide increased access to mental health supports for high school students.
Community Favorite
Dr. Kellee Hill
Create. Refine. Pilot. Scale.
The Teacherpreneur program is designed to harness educator innovation to remove inequities and build schools where all students thrive.
This professional learning opportunity will help teachers identify, design, and pilot innovative solutions while changing the way our community sees educators - as change-makers both in and beyond the walls of their classroom.
The Teacherpreneur cohort will participate in professional learning from December through February to design and refine their innovative solutions to eliminate systemic inequities in our schools. The cohort experience will culminate in a prototype pitch event in early March awarding $25,000 in cash prizes to the top concepts.
Select winners will be chosen for seed funding to implement or scale their innovative solution.
Here’s what our inaugural cohort had to say about participating in Teacherpreneur:
"The opportunity to become a Teacherpreneur with NPEF shifted my perspective to view how I might package my ideas and get them into the hands of people who want to know more. This training expanded my knowledge in ways that I did not know existed."
“I learned strategies for networking, marketing, and change management. I feel empowered as a teacher leader to now use these strategies in a variety of contexts. Teacherpreneur was unique in the opportunity to develop interpersonal skills that can initiate and cultivate lasting changes in an organization.”
“The NPEF facilitators effectively crafted development sessions that attended to our time, engagement, expanded our resources, and more. This experience helped me to deepen my understanding in a whole new direction. After 30 years of teaching, this was the first professional development that provided a new paradigm shift of how my expertise can be harnessed for others to succeed in and outside of the classroom.”