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Jack Pannell is the CEO of Collegiate Schools Foundation, a newly formed initiative building upon the school model Jack organized and founded, in 2015, as Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys. The school has become a national model for the education of Black and brown boys everywhere. The school tripled in size within three years, with state testing scores that consistently outpaced the school district. With 482 boys in grades 4-8, Baltimore Collegiate is the first college prep public charter of its kind in Baltimore, with a unique focus on a college prep education during the critical developmental stages of the elementary and middle school years. Jack is a non-traditional educator, who established Baltimore Collegiate through an intensive self-funded study of nearly 50 schools, adopting and adapting the best practices for moving the needle on the urban male learner.
In the fall of 2023, Jack launched very different school in Phoenix Arizona with a focus to establish an economically diverse, private and independent school for boys, called Trinity Arch Preparatory School for Boys. Trinity Arch Prep (for boys ages 7-14) is an intentionally small school ("microschool") dedicated to the purpose of building a fire in the hearts and minds of boys and helping them discover the world through inquiry based learning and local, regional and global learning expeditions. Trinity Arch Prep enters its second year this Fall, tripling the size of school.
Jack previously held several positions in politics and government, including serving as the communications director for the late Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon. Jack helped John Lewis write his first book, Walking with the Wind.
Jack is a graduate of Amherst College and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. In his rare free time, he skis in the West, golfs anywhere and travels around the world during every school vacation. He is a North American trustee of the International Boys' Schools Coalition and has moderated several youth seminars as part of the Aspen Institute' s community initiative. Jack also wrote a semi-biographical coming-of-age novel, "Lunch Money Can't Shoot," with an old friend, Michael Levin. He is a Fellow of the 23rd class of the Pahara - Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and moderates the awxon Emerging Leaders cohort this year at AGLN. His son, Carlos, who captained his football team at RPI, is now in Phoenix working at. Vanguard Investments.
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