Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Project Title
For support of the 2024 Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
6 months
Description
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its 10th annual Summit, entitled Improvement in Education. The Summit is a unique educational event that connects a diverse cross-section of educators, researchers, funders, and policymakers around pressing problems of practice. Its aim is to build capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate, impact, and enable equitable outcomes for students.
Project Title
For support of the Advancing Social and Economic Opportunity through Education Initiative
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) is driven by its mission to catalyze change in education so that every student has the opportunity to live a healthy, dignified, and fulfilling life. With a planning grant in 2022 from the Corporation, CFAT developed a strategy to advance educational and economic opportunity at national scale through four intersecting aims that they will advance over the next decade .With continued support from the Corporation, CFAT will focus on two of these areas: 1) Create a bridge between time and credit-based models of attainment to outcomes-based models of learning that accelerate success in school, career and life 2) Fully leverage networked improvement science in support of CFAT’s strategic priories to make improvement methods, routines, and tools accessible at broad scale.
Project Title
For the project, "The Chicago Story: Lessons for Building an Educational Improvement Infrastructure"
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
8 months
Description
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) seeks to describe the development of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure over the past thirty years, serving as both a clarion call and a blueprint for collective action and civic commitment for public education. With Corporation support they have engaged in a process that (i) convened key architects and actors responsible; (ii) investigated and documented the work over time; (iii) illuminated the current state of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure; (iv) identified strategies for strengthening core supports; and (v) distilled key lessons that can be used by leaders in other metropolitan seeking to build a similar educational improvement infrastructure. This grant will allow CFAT to complete the work, including addressing key learnings and expansions to scope that were unanticipated but prove core to our common goals.
Project Title
For support of the 2022 Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
5 months
Description
We will never meet our rising aspirations for student achievement without building capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its eighth annual Summit, bringing together close to 2,000 education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve – continuing the focus from the 2020 Summit on increasing the diversity of attendees. This grant provides support for the 2022 Summit.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Under the leadership of its new President Timothy Knowles, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) continues to advance educational equity by acting as a catalyst across the domains of practice, scholarship, policy, design, and innovation; and with the commercial and social sectors. CFAT’s overarching priority is to pursue authentic educational equity in direct response to systemic and institutionalized racial, educational, and economic injustice. Specifically, CFAT seeks to develop strategic plans in three key areas: educational attainment, with a focus on Black, Latinx, Indigenous and first-generation students; postsecondary innovation, including creating a new Economic Mobility Classification; and the future of learning, shifting from time- and credit-based models to those based on competency.
Project Title
For the iLEAD network of schools of education and partner districts and the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
30 months
Description
Reliably building and sustaining mutually beneficial, robust district-university partnerships has eluded the education community for over a century. Over the past three years, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) has sought to do this by using improvement science in leadership preparation to better ally districts and schools of education in common purpose. Improvement science helps schools and systems get better by using rapid tests of change that guide the development, revision and continued fine-tuning of new tools, processes, work roles and relationships. With Corporation support, CFAT has created an improvement Leadership Education and Development network (iLEAD), comprised of 11 partnerships made up of districts and schools of education, which uses improvement science to prepare and develop educational leaders. This grant enables the continuation of the network and provides support for the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education.
Project Title
For a project called "The Chicago Story: Lessons for Building an Educational Improvement Infrastructure," which seeks to capture and share lessons from Chicago's educational improvement over the past three decades
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
20 months
Description
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seeks to elucidate and communicate the development of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure over the past thirty years. They propose to convene key architects and actors responsible for infrastructure development to document how they initiated their respective strands of work, navigated barriers and challenges over multiple reform “eras”, and operated at multiple levels from academic and civic elites to parent and community stakeholders and coalitions. They also seek to better understand the current state of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure and identify strategies for strengthening these supports over the next thirty years. Finally, and arguably most importantly, they seek to distill key lessons from Chicago’s work that can be used by leaders in other metropolitan regions to develop an educational improvement infrastructure that serves millions of students across the United States. The story of Chicago can serve as both a clarion call and a blueprint for collective action and civic commitment for public education.
Project Title
For the 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
5 months
Description
We will never meet our rising aspirations for student achievement without building capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its seventh annual Summit, bringing together close to 2,000 education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve – continuing the focus from last year on increasing the diversity of attendees. This grant provides support for the 2020 Summit.
Project Title
For the 2019 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement Education
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
4 months
Description
We will never meet our rising aspirations for student achievement without building capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its sixth annual Summit, bringing together well over a thousand education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve – this year with a specific focus on increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of attendees. This grant provides support for the 2019 Summit.
Project Title
For the 2018 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
3 months
Description
We will never meet our ever-rising aspirations for student achievement without a more responsive, agile approach to research and development, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its fifth annual Summit, bringing together over a thousand education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve. This grant provides support for the 2018 Summit.
Project Title
For continuation of the iLEAD project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
There is a need for more productive relationships between research and practice in educational leadership programs. Rather than developing the skills and capabilities for improvement that could be used to strengthen the systems they will work in, future educators often get doses of theory and methods that are related to, but often decontextualized and decoupled from, practice. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s iLEAD (Improvement Leadership Education and Development) project, launched in 2017 with Corporation support, is a human-resource development strategy that brings together institutions of higher education (IHEs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to better prepare teacher- and administrative-leaders to nimbly navigate and productively contribute to success in K-12 systems. iLEAD supports teams of IHE faculty and LEA leaders to integrate improvement science into leadership development programs, with the long-term goal of building leadership capabilities for making progress on persistent problems of practice in schools and school systems. This grant is for continuation of the iLEAD network.
Project Title
For field-building to increase the use of improvement science at institutions of higher education, and a planning project to explore using improvement science in program evaluation
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
There remains a paucity of rich, deep, and meaningful opportunities for interaction and engagement between the post-secondary and K-12 sectors to prepare teachers and administrators to nimbly navigate and productively contribute to success in K-12 systems. Rather than developing the skills and capabilities for improvement that could be used to strengthen the systems they will work in, future educators get doses of theory and methods that are related to, but often decontextualized and decoupled from, practice. Now, led in large part by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), there is increasing interest in the promise of improvement science principles, enacted through Networked Improvement Communities, to meet the need for a more productive relationship between research and practice. This grant supports CFAT in two strategies to accomplish this: (1) field-building to increase the use of improvement science in educator preparation, through engagement with practical challenges in local education agencies; and (2) to explore with philanthropic and evaluation partners the use of improvement science in program evaluation.
Project Title
For the 2017 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
3 months
Description
Educators—practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and community leaders—have been actively pursuing educational reform for decades, and yet, with dispiriting regularity, a promising new reform idea emerges only to be implemented with very limited, if any, long-term impact. We will never meet our ever-rising aspirations for student achievement without a more responsive, agile approach to research and development, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if these educational leaders joined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its fourth annual Summit, bringing together hundreds of education leaders and stakeholders from around the country to catalyze and support a movement, connect like-minded leaders, and convene an improvement community aimed at expanding the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve. This grant provides support for the 2017 Summit.
Project Title
For a project on learning to improve by building a field of improvement science in education
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
11 months
Description
The impact of education reform on reducing inequity in education over the past few decades has been constrained by the lack of approaches that effectively enable productive learning and sharing across the field. There is a need for a research and development enterprise that builds on ideas generated through traditional research about what can work (in some contexts, or for some populations) and ensures that we learn how to make them work, again and again and across contexts. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie Foundation) has developed Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) as a strategy that allows researchers and practitioners to work together to learn their way into successful implementation reliably and at scale. This grant supports the prototyping and testing of three field-building strategies that support the growth of the NIC movement while simultaneously building capacity across the field for quality enactment of the improvement principles.
Project Title
For the national expansion of the community college pathways program
Date
Sep. 17, 2015
Duration
24 months
Project Title
For strategic planning related to the expansion and sustainability of Quantway and Statway mathematical pathways
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
6 months
Project Title
For pathways to student success at scale through networked improvement communities
Date
Mar. 06, 2014
Duration
15 months
Project Title
For a report on student motivation and Common Core Standards
Date
Jun. 06, 2013
Duration
25 months
Project Title
For pathways to student success at scale through networked improvement communities
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
25 months
Project Title
Toward a project to redesign developmental education by creating an integrated pathway to and through statistics
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
24 months
Project Title
Toward a study on the integration of liberal arts education into business and other professional education
Date
Dec. 06, 2007
Duration
42 months
Project Title
Toward a project to examine and improve the relations between foundations and educational institutions
Date
Jun. 09, 2004
Duration
12 months