CitySchools Collaborative
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For general support of CityTutor's model
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
18 months
Description
CityTutor DC (CTDC)– formerly CityBridge Education (CBE)– became a key player in the Washington, DC education landscape as a best-in-class incubator of new school solutions after its founding in 2000. This incubation role also served as the launchpad for two city-wide initiatives: CTDCin 2021, to provide high-impact tutoring (HIT) to DC students,and the Transforming Teaching Pilot (TTP) initiative, in 2022, which engaged teams to design new models for how teacher time and expertise were deployed in their schools. In July 2024, CBEdecided to sunset its school incubation work and operate as CTDC, a coalition composed of over 100 schools, tutoring providers, national design partners, and community organizations, working to expand access to HIT and strategic staffing models for students furthest from opportunity. Prior Corporation support enabled CTDC to activate a total of 2,256 tutors for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years. Notably, 63 percent of tutored students meet their individualized growth goals and experienced an increase in attendance by two to five days per school year among chronically absent students. Renewed support will enable CTDCto implement the infrastructure to expand HITto an additional 15kstudents and support change for 10kmore through support for their educators in the next three years.
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For incubating new learning models, leading citywide initiatives, and building the conditions needed to sustain innovation in Washington, DC
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Traditional school models were designed to achieve a different set of goals than those to which we aspire today. Today’s students require learning experiences that are personalized, mastery-based, and student-driven, and that prepare them to succeed in college and career. CityBridge Education (CityBridge) is a regional portfolio organization that has a long track record of incubating innovative new models in Washington, DC. With prior Corporation support, CityBridge has incubated a portfolio that now includes fourteen schools, and cultivated a diverse talent pipeline of school, community, and system leaders. In recent years, CityBridge has expanded its work to include education ventures beyond school walls, including CityWorks DC, which builds strong pathways for youth into high-wage, high-demand careers, and to lead large-scale initiatives such as CityTutor, which provides citywide access to high-impact tutoring for 10,000 students who experienced COVID-related disruption to their learning. With continued Corporation support, CityBridge will support a cohort of innovators developing new models, lead citywide initiatives to address widespread challenges, and engage stakeholders to build support for improvement and innovation.
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For innovative new school development and the CityWorks initiative
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, the Corporation has played a significant role in expanding access to student-centered learning opportunities, and we continue to believe that the proliferation of innovative school models is a necessary catalyst for the system-level transformation we aim to affect.CityBridgeEducation (CityBridge) is a local portfolio organizationuniquely positionedto incubate and support grassroots, new school development in Washington,D.C. Withprior Corporation support, CityBridgehas not only grown its portfolio to includethirteen schools and provided ongoing support as these schools have matured, but it hasalso cultivated a local talent pipeline andmobilized a network of key stakeholdersinWashingtonD.C.For the past two years, the Corporation has supported one of the most promising of these ventures,CityWorksDC, whichis a new, work-based learning initiativethat will be supported through this grant, alongsideCityBridge’snew school development work.
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For core support of CityWorks
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
13 months
Description
Youth apprenticeships can play a pivotal role in closing the gap between students’ high school learning experiences and the demands of the twenty-first century economy. In Washington, D.C., where a booming regional economy has not translated into meaningful work opportunities for local public school students, the case for these experiences is especially compelling. CityBridge Education, a nonprofit with a long history of successfully incubating new ventures in D.C., is addressing this challenge with the launch of CityWorks, a new initiative dedicated to building strong pathways for local youth into high-wage, high-demand careers. With Corporation support, CityWorks will launch a youth apprenticeship program in D.C. modelled on CareerWise Colorado, and it will actively engage public and private partners in efforts to create education-to-employment pathways for students in Washington, D.C.
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For the creation and launch of innovative new schools
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, the Corporation has played a significant role in expanding access to student-centered learning opportunities, and we continue to believe that the proliferation of innovative school models is a necessary catalyst for system-level transformation. We also believe that new school models are most effective when developed in partnership with the communities that they serve. CityBridge Education (CityBridge) is a local portfolio organization uniquely positioned to incubate and support grassroots, new school development in Washington, D.C. Through this work, CityBridge not only creates high-quality learning opportunities for the students served directly by its schools, but also builds the pipeline of local education talent and influences the education landscape in Washington, D.C. Renewed support will enable CityBridge to: build a robust pipeline of education entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C.; support the development of new school models; and engage local stakeholders in support of education transformation in their local context.
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For support of an integrated approach to innovative school design and redesign, and related knowledge sharing activities
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
For fifteen years, CityBridge Foundation has focused on launching and supporting innovative, next generation schools in Washington, D.C. Now, CityBridge Education (CityBridge) is building on its strong track record and aims to launch twenty-five high-quality, new or redesigned schools in the next five years through an integrated strategy that combines school design, network support, knowledge building, and talent development. With Corporation support, CityBridge Education will deepen its activities in the first three of those areas: designing and launching new schools and redesigning existing schools; providing support and networked improvement to existing CityBridge schools; and undertaking knowledge sharing activities geared toward multiple audiences – educators, school leaders, and district managers.