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Travis Pillow

Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Background

Travis Pillow is an innovation fellow and senior writer at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. He started his career as a journalist based in Florida’s capitol, covering politics, budgets, health care, and education policy for several online publications and Gannett newspapers. He later became editor of redefinED, a website chronicling the new definition of public education in Florida and elsewhere, and did other policy and communications work for Step Up For Students, the nonprofit that administers two of the nation’s largest private school choice programs.

travis.pillow@asu.edu

Publications

How states can support ongoing academic recovery

This piece was originally published on EdNote, the Education Commission of the States’ blog. School closures, quarantines and staffing uncertainties have contributed to the biggest...
Robin Lake
Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Pandemic devastation demands more student-centered learning practices

This article was originally published on Ed Post.  After three disrupted school years, America’s K-12 learners collectively have significant unfinished learning and unmet mental health...
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy, KnowledgeWorks

Parent navigators are worth the investment for school choice supporters

Senior writer and innovation fellow explains Florida’s proposed “choice navigator” program and why school choice advocates should support funding the position.
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Remove the fish to clean the tank: Black education leaders discuss how leaving public schools can help save them

For Black children, the public education system is like a dirty fish tank. They’re swimming in toxic conditions like discriminatory discipline and low expectations. But...
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Jennifer Poon
Fellow, Center for Innovation in Education

The alarming state of the American student in 2022

Kids may be back at school after three disrupted years, but a return to classrooms has not brought a return to normal.
Robin Lake
Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

The State of the American Student: Fall 2022 Executive Summary

This executive summary provides highlights of the primary findings and recommendations from the State of the American Student: Fall 2022 report that draws on data...
Robin Lake
Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

The State of the American Student: Fall 2022

This report draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized over the course of the pandemic. It outlines the...
Robin Lake
Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Reporter’s Guide: Questions for assessing how your state or district is tracking pandemic impact and recovery

To accompany CRPE’s inaugural State of the American Student report in 2022, researchers and experts assembled a guide with critical questions for media to consider...
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Whitney Marsh
Policy Consultant

Gut-check Moment for School Superintendents — Toxic Politics, Demands for New Services, Struggles to Deliver Basics Make ‘Impossible Job’ Harder than Ever

Amid all the concern about staffing shortages in America’s schools, the continued strain is showing up in another key place: at the top.
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director

Virtual Learning, Now and Beyond

This brief provides a guide for education leaders and policymakers building a path to sustainable and quality virtual learning.
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Robin Lake
Director

How ready are schools for Omicron? December snapshot of 100 districts

Districts head into a winter break with little clarity on their newest wrinkle: how the omicron variant will affect their operations.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Has the number of homeschoolers doubled? Or are the lines blurring?

One Saturday morning a few years ago, I was walking through an outdoor market in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla., where I lived at the time,...
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Notes from our database: The latest on 2021-22’s rocky return to school

The scramble to reopen schools, keep students safe, and keep them learning hasn’t abated.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow

More masks, more vaccines, more online learning, but what about quarantines? The latest on school district fall reopening

More school districts are requiring masks and vaccines, and remote learning plans are more detailed as the threat of the Delta variant looms.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

District update: Stronger health precautions, far more virtual options

School districts have stepped up health precautions and expanded virtual learning options as they prepare for students’ return to school.
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

How 100 large urban districts are wrapping family & community input into plans for spending federal emergency school relief funds

A first look at ESSER priorities indicated many districts may be struggling to reconcile public input with their own strategic priorities.
Alvin Makori
Research Assistant
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Bolder leadership needed to keep students safe and learning next year

Schools owe students a chance to gain back the learning opportunities they were denied last year. They cannot afford to squander another year because of...
Christine Pitts
Senior Policy Fellow
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

First look at ESSER priorities: Districts are placing their bets on what they know

A $189 billion infusion of federal COVID relief funding gives America’s school districts an unprecedented opportunity to invest in lasting improvements in public education and...
Bree Dusseault
Principal and Managing Director
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Now’s the time for states to invest in making online learning better

Many school districts have launched a full-court press to convince these families it’s safe to return to classrooms. But what should schools do about families...
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer

Are smaller class sizes without the pitfalls possible? Pandemic pods make the case

Pandemic pods were borne by necessity as families faced urgent needs for childcare and remote learning support. But they also offer fresh solutions to an...
Ashley Jochim
Principal
Travis Pillow
Innovation Fellow and Senior Writer
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