Opportunities Archive - The Opportunity Trust

We invest in courageous leaders and school systems eager to make significant and measurable change. Learn more about current fellowships and opportunities below. If you are a school or district leader seeking support or have a proposal to help build world-class schools that fits within one of our investment priorities, send us an email at connect@theopportunitytrust.org.

School Board Fellowship

School Board Fellows are educators, parents, and civic leaders who want to improve how schools educate children. The School Board Fellows cohort will learn the important role of school boards, how they work, the kind of change that is possible through board governance, and strategies for how to govern effectively.

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Reinvention By Community Fund

The Opportunity Trust is relaunching our Reinvention by Community Fund to support individuals and teams with innovative ideas to address the full range of student and educator needs. An Advisory Committee made up of community members most impacted by our school’s conditions and quality will serve as the decision-making body.

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Innovative Schools Fellowship

The Innovative Schools Fellowship is a two-year fellowship for visionary leaders to design, pilot, and launch world-class schools in response to the family and community needs of St. Louis.

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Catalyst Fellowship

The Catalyst Fellowship brings together courageous leaders to imagine, build, and test new approaches to teaching and learning that shape educational blueprints for the future.

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The Opportunity Trust invests in educators and school systems eager to build the capacity required to make significant and measurable change.

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Leading Change

School Board Fellowship

Reinvention By Community Fund

Innovative Schools Fellowship

Catalyst Fellowship

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Expanding Opportunity: The Leadership School Opens Its Doors

An Historic Election and Opportunity For Transformational Change in Education

Promoting Ingenuity: An Update on the Remote Learning Innovation Fund

Transforming Systems: How the Normandy Schools Collaborative is Using Data to Accelerate Change

Catalyzing Innovation: How City Garden and Kairos Academy are Reimagining School

Developing Leaders: Meet Three New Leaders Committed to Bold Change in St. Louis