Founded in 2005 by experienced educators and entrepreneurs, Education for Change (EFC) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation. As a Charter School Management Organization, EFC operates public elementary schools designed to offer a high quality education at no cost to parents. EFC serves ethnically and economically diverse student bodies. EFC currently operates three schools in Oakland, California: Cox Academy, World Academy, and Achieve Academy.
The mission of Education for Change is straightforward. We will provide a superior public education to Oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on our students' academic achievement. We believe that high quality instruction, and its continuous refinement, will lead to success for our students. When our students succeed, they will be prepared to make thoughtful and informed choices that will set them on a path for a successful life. Through the success of our students, we will create a catalytic change across the country that will help to transform urban public schools into high performing organizations for the children that are most dependent upon them.
At Education for Change our core beliefs are the foundation for our organization. We have built strict and deliberate screens into our hiring process to ensure that we hire only individuals that share our beliefs about what makes a great school-and what it takes for all children to succeed in school and in life. We believe that organizations can only be successful when people are aligned around a common purpose and a shared set of goals. This applies to our schools, and Education for Change as a whole.
Through a shared set of core beliefs, we are building one community of adults across multiple schools that share responsibility for the EFC mission. Our core beliefs are the following:
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Every child has a right to a high quality, free, public education.
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Every student can learn and succeed at high levels.
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The most important attribute of successful schools is the ability to have consistently high quality instruction in every classroom.
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Building a professional learning community is the key to our schools' success.
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Every child will succeed when a school is organized around a coherent, comprehensive, rigorous, standards-6. based curriculum, and school leaders make decisions about how to improve instruction based on data.
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The best measure of what we value is how we spend our time.
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Every adult within the school community - principals, teachers, staff, parents and administrators - is responsible for student performance.
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