50CAN
Project Title
For final core support of JerseyCan
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
New Jersey, like many other states, has been challenged with long-standing, persistent achievement gaps that have only been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), while less than half (49 percent) of New Jersey’s middle- and high-income fourth-graders are proficient in reading, only 19 percentof their low-income peers are performing atgrade level. JerseyCAN is a trusted voice on education, advocating for high-quality educational opportunities for all New Jersey students and working to bolster efforts to support students’ educational recovery. Continued support will allow JerseyCAN to implement a targeted approach to closing the achievement gap through: advancing effective approaches to literacy instruction, increasing the diversity of the educator workforce by making entry into the workforce more accessible, and advancing efforts to equitably fund charter schools.
Website
Project Title
For core support of JerseyCan
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
New Jersey, like other states, is currently in the middle of the third school year with significantly disrupted learning opportunities. With long-standing, persistent achievement gaps across the state, Covid-19 has drastically exacerbated the educational inequities in New Jersey. JerseyCAN is a trusted voice on education, advocating for high-quality educational opportunities for all New Jersey students and working to bolster efforts to support students’ educational recovery. Continued support will allow JerseyCAN to address learning recovery to ensure students get back on track with grade-level outcomes, support parent and family engagement efforts to help drive student academic recovery, make policy recommendations to improve the teacher pipeline and ensure New Jersey has the infrastructure and capacity to meet current and future workforce needs, and expand the work of their Teacher Leader Policy Fellowship program.
Website
Project Title
For a project to create a new framework to address student learning loss in New Jersey exacerbated by COVID-19
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
Initial research from early in the pandemic forecasts staggering learning loss, particularly for low-income students.Data shows that on average in New Jersey, there were at least 58 days of learning lost in reading and over 174 days lost in math.JerseyCAN is a trusted voice on education, advocating for high-quality educational opportunities for all New Jersey students through partnership with education leaders, parents, students and other stakeholders from across the state to advance policy change.Continued support will allow JerseyCAN to assess the impact of COVID-19 on school communities in New Jersey, measure learning loss statewide, identify strategies to mitigate student learning loss and close gaps, share findings about effective strategies, and recommend policy reforms for addressing student learning loss statewide.
Website
Project Title
For a project by JerseyCAN to develop a comprehensive report on the state of the New Jersey educator workforce
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
A challenge in ensuring that every student has the teacher they need is that current educator supply and demand cycles are not necessarily informed by district needs. For example, there is often a surplus of certified teachers in some areas (eg, physical education) and fewer than required in other crucial areas (eg, English Language Learners). Both schools of education and alternative teacher certification providers need to be more effectively connected and responsive to the needs of schools. JerseyCAN plans to tackle this challenge by developing a comprehensive “State of New Jersey Educator Workforce Report” to focus attention on this issue in New Jersey. This report will detail the state of the current supply and demand for K-12 educators; forecast future supply and demand trends; review current recruitment, preparation, and retention strategies; make policy recommendations; and set forth a vision for the ideal future state of the educator workforce pipeline. This work will serve both as a catalyst for change in the New Jersey and, through the 50CAN network, as a model for other states around the country.
Website
Project Title
For a pilot program of the Learning Pioneers summer policy fellowship for teachers.
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
9 months
Description
Over the past five years, 50CAN has emerged as a leading non-profit organization that supports local leaders in efforts to advocate for educational systems that provide all children with a high-quality education. Their work in seven states provides policy, advocacy, and training expertise to local leaders and builds relationships with teachers, parents, and civic leaders to move the conversation forward on key education issues facing their communities—from universal pre-K, to recruiting great teachers, to implementing more rigorous standards. With Corporation support, 50CAN will launch a Learning Pioneers pilot program in Rhode Island, an intensive summer fellowship to provide pioneering teachers with the opportunity to work together to translate their personalized learning work into locally developed proposals that can inform statewide policy campaigns.