We believe that school choice helps families, children and educators achieve more and do better.
Bluum is a non-profit organization committed to ensuring Idaho’s children reach their fullest potential by cultivating great leaders and innovative schools. We work to help Idaho become a national model for how to maximize learning opportunities for children. In partnership with the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, Bluum serves as a funding intermediary and local champion for supporting entrepreneurial education ventures.
MISSION
We seek to:
DEVELOP Innovative Leaders
GROW Successful School Models
SHARE Research and Learning Innovations
PROVIDE School Support and Management Help
Bluum supports high-performing and innovative school models that are committed to growing their efforts in Idaho. These models include startups opened by Idaho educators and innovators, replicators of high-performing schools, and a number of homegrown charter management organizations. Partner schools have proven themselves academically and operationally, have established student wait lists, and demonstrate excellence in their student performance. Our school partners have increased their efforts to serve our most educationally disadvantaged and rural students. Bluum provides support to school districts who embrace the possibility of transformative change for how learning and instruction are made available to students.
Bluum’s Idaho New School Fellowship supports and develops education entrepreneurs. School leaders gain advanced leadership training and local expertise needed to operate a successful school by planning, developing and launching a high-performing public school in an underserved Idaho community. This work is made possible by grant support during their one or two-year start-up phase.
Bluum provides partner schools with additional services and technical assistance. Our team can help evaluate the business of running a school by reviewing financial infrastructure and identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement. In addition to financial management, Bluum also offers support in these areas: special education, communications, marketing, governance, and academics. Our goal is to free school leaders to focus on their mission – educating kids.
Bluum has become a go-to resource on education research and innovation. We aim to share the work of Idaho’s high performing schools and outstanding educators. Our hope is that it can become a national model for helping all children reach their fullest potential. Idaho is well positioned to leap-frog the nation’s top performing states in education for both applying nationally effective practices, as well as supporting novel innovations – especially in rural – that are transferable.
We also work to share great ideas and concepts generated from other states which could help the Gem State improve its educational outcomes.
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