Leigh Whiting-Jones's Contact Details

Leigh Whiting-Jones's Company Details

EL Education, Inc.

New York, NY, US • 250 - 499 Employees
Education/Training

EL Education creates great public schools where they are needed most, inspiring teachers and students to achieve more than they thought possible.Created over 25 years ago through the collaboration of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound, EL Education's research-based approach challenges and empowers teachers and students. The model focuses on ensuring that all students master rigorous content, develop positive character, and produce high-quality work. EL Education transforms classrooms in thousands of schools and districts across the country through a unique combination of challenge and joy in learning. Students'​ impressive results encompass high academic achievement and college readiness, pride in the mastery of complex, authentic work, and a passion and capacity to contribute to a better world.EL Education works with all kinds of schools: district and charter, from pre-K through 12th grade, serving populations that reflect the diversity of our country. It creates powerful resources--including an open-access literacy curriculum in use in more than 600 districts across 44 states--provides masterful coaching and professional development, and shares a portfolio of award-winning, educator-developed materials. One reason for its success: its work is informed by decades of learning in its national network of over 150 high-achieving public schools.