About us
Marshall Street builds the educators and leaders schools need now and next.
We prepare new educators. We support teachers as they grow. We develop emerging and experienced leaders. We help partners build representative benches, strengthen continuity, and connect talent work across the organization.
Our work is rooted in the belief that when the adults in a school grow, the school gets stronger. We build for both.
Why Talent?
Talent is the work behind strong schools.
Every school depends on the adults in it: the teachers who build relationships and lead learning, the mentors who help new educators grow, the leaders who support teams, and the systems that make it possible for strong people to stay, lead, and transition responsibly.
Schools and systems are working in a harder operating environment. Recruitment is more difficult. Teacher preparation is uneven. Leadership benches are often thin. Transitions can destabilize schools when institutions are not prepared.
Marshall Street helps partners meet those challenges with a connected approach to talent.
We support the full arc of adult development: preparation, recruitment, early-career support, development, coaching, leadership, retention, succession, transition, and long-term institutional capacity.
Talent in an Age of AI and Efficiency
New tools can help schools work differently. They can make some tasks faster, reveal patterns in data, and create new possibilities for planning and support.
They also do not build trust with students. They do not coach a new teacher through a hard week. They do not lead a team through change, prepare someone for a bigger role, or carry institutional knowledge through a transition.
Effective educators and leaders matter more than ever.
In an age when schools are being asked to do more with less, talent cannot be treated as a hope or a side project. It has to be a discipline. Marshall Street helps schools and systems invest in the adults, roles, and talent systems that make improvement possible and lasting.
Our approach
Marshall does not only train individuals. We partner with schools and systems to solve the talent problems that hold schools back.
Participants need practice, mentorship, coaching, feedback, relationships, and community. School systems need stronger leadership benches, better continuity, and talent strategies that endure over time. Our work achieves both.
Our programs meet adults at different stages of the talent continuum, from people entering education through those leading teams, schools, and systems.
Each program matters on its own. Together, they create a connected approach to building the educators and leaders schools need now and next.
Schools need strong people in classrooms and leadership roles today. They also need to prepare for what is ahead: future openings, leadership transitions, changing student needs, evolving school models, and the ongoing work of building representative teams.
Marshall helps partners fill real needs now while building the capacity to stay strong over time.
Marshall's approach is grounded in the real needs of schools. We design for actual roles, actual students, actual teams, and the decisions leaders make every day.
That practical grounding keeps our work clear, useful, and connected to what schools need.
Our Connection to Summit
Marshall Street is a division of Summit Public Schools.
Summit was founded on a commitment that runs through the charter sector at its best: when a school system learns something that helps students, it has an obligation to share it. Marshall Street is how Summit keeps that commitment.
Summit built these programs for its own educators first, preparing new teachers, supporting them through the early years, and developing leaders from within. What began inside Summit's schools now serves educators far beyond them, and what Marshall learns from partners across the country comes back to strengthen the work.
Today, Marshall partners with schools, networks, districts, and systems across the country. Staying close to real schools keeps the work grounded and specific.
Representation
Students benefit when the educators and leaders in their schools better reflect the communities they serve.
Marshall helps partners build more representative educator and leadership benches by removing barriers to entry, preparing new educators, developing leaders from within, and creating the support people need to grow and remain in the work.
Representation is not a separate priority. It is part of building stronger schools.
Our Team
Marshall Street is led by educators, school leaders, talent professionals, and system builders who understand the demands of school work from the inside.
Our team brings experience in teacher preparation, instructional leadership, adult development, talent strategy, data, coaching, and school operations. Across that work, we share a simple commitment: help schools build the adults and systems their students need.