upublic is working on a wide range of public and private sector education initiatives around the world with governments, universities, K-12 school systems, private developers, and other education-related organizations and businesses. Our clients are as passionate about improving education as we are, and they rely on upublic's expertise to deliver creative, scalable and sustainable solutions to address the shifting challenges of teaching and learning in their communities. Some of these clients include:
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Scindia Teachers College
upublic is partnering with HH Maharaja Jyotiraditya M. Scindia to design a new teachers college in Gwalior, India. The Scindia family has a long tradition of supporting excellence in education, a commitment that dates back to the founding of the Scindia School in 1897 by the Late Maharaja Madhavrao Jayaji Rao Scindia. The teachers college initiative will build on the family’s legacy and impact the larger educational landscape by preparing new generations of highly skilled teachers.
King’s Academy 
upublic worked with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan (HMK) and the Directors of King’s Academy to distill HMK’s vision for a technologically-progressive boarding school into an actionable blueprint for ICT deployment and programs at the school. We also consulted on the creation of the academy’s science curriculum and laboratories.
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan 
upublic consulted the Office of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan (HMQ) during its investigation of policies and programs to increase the level of professionalism and the quality of teaching in Jordan. upublic traveled to Jordan to assist HMQ’s staff with the early stages of this undertaking, and to provide a preliminary assessment and recommendations for next steps.
United Nations Development Programme 
upublic analyzed and critiqued the United Nations Development Programme's Capacity Assessment guidelines to determine their viability in supporting the aims of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). Core to our recommendations was the design for a new kind of sustainable, field-deployable community school that focuses disparate local assets on the work of developing human capital in the actual communities that UNDP's policies intend to serve.
Republic of Tanzania 
upublic consulted Augustine Mahiga, Tanzania’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations and former head of the UN Security Council, on the design of an all-women’s school in Tanzania. upublic worked closely with Ambassador Mahiga and his wife, Elizabeth, to articulate a vision for the school encompassing curriculum, architecture, community development and partnerships. With this work in hand, the Mahigas and their foundation, the Bahati Foundation, launched a successful fundraising campaign to support the school initiative.
Republic of Bolivia 
upublic has twice hosted in New York delegations sent by Bolivian President Evo Morales and Minister of Education, Felix Patzi. We provided guidance on educational policy reform, and there are future plans for upublic to design model public schools in La Paz that are sustained through private and public partnerships.
American Red Cross of Greater New York (ARCGNY) 
upublic conducted a broad assessment of ARCGNY’s training and induction processes, internal communications, educational resources, course offerings, and training capacities, aimed at developing more effective training and continuing education programs. We continue to work with ARCGNY's leadership to operationalize programs that address the most mission-critical findings in the assessment.
The National High School Alliance (NHSA) 
upublic conducted research for the development of NHSA's Call to Action framework and continues to assist NHSA in actualizing the framework’s core principles for preparing all of our nation's youth for college, careers, and active civic participation.
Education and Economics Research Team at Columbia, Harvard and Dartmouth 
In close consultation with the research team, upublic designed and developed a software to support a study on teacher effectiveness conducted by Columbia Business School professor Jonah Rockoff, Harvard GSE professor Brian Kane, and Dartmouth College professor Douglas Staiger. We plan to soon introduce the product of that effort as a commercial product to help schools and other learning organizations improve teacher and trainer quality.
Michael Bloomberg 
upublic advanced several innovative public school designs under the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's legacy initiative, and we are currently working with governmental, public, and private entities towards actualizing some of our recommendations.
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center at Lincoln Center (LSNC) 
upublic designed a cutting-edge arts and sciences media lab and an informal science education curriculum to support LSNC’s youth services and community outreach programming.
Empowerment Schools 
upublic and faculty at Teachers College co-designed a new whole-school professional development model that brings mentor teams, comprised of seasoned practitioners, higher education subject matter experts and other leaders in the field, into schools to work directly with principals and faculty to identify school-specific challenges, implement collaborative interventions and evaluate outcomes. The three-year pilot is designed to build in-school capacities in those areas and to create a sustainable network of shared resources with other Empowerment schools. The 6-school pilot begins in September 2008.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
upublic led faculty members from Penn GSE to Dubai to conduct a feasibility study for delivering teacher education programming in the UAE in partnership with an experienced, local management team. The upublic-designed model will allow Penn GSE's high-quality academic content and teaching expertise to be delivered in the proper context by integrating it into a center for education research and professional development within an existing K-12 institution. The first phase of the initiative is slated to begin in September 2008.