Grant Size: $887,000
Grantee Since: 2010
Grant Objective: Launch school turnaround organization.
 

Unlocking Potential (UP) is a non-profit school management organization that seeks to rapidly transform chronically underperforming urban public schools into extraordinary schools and thereafter sustain each school's performance over the long term. To achieve this impact, UP models its schools on the core aspects of the highest performing urban public schools in the United States. Specifically, UP ensures that its schools are defined by:

• Relentlessly high, consistent academic and behavioral expectations;

• Seamless and detailed operating procedures;

• Rigorous, standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessments;

• A wide-reaching network of supports designed such that no child is left behind;

• An obsession with regularly and effectively using data; and

• An atmosphere of enthusiasm and joy.

UP Website