Education First
Project Title
For project support of the Strategic Staffing Funder Group Landscape Analysis
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
Research shows that access to effective teachers increases the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school, attend college, and earn a higher income. However, access to high-quality instruction has been a persistent challenge in public education, especially in schools that predominately serve black and brown students. Many entities across the nation, however, are working to find ways to reimagine the teaching profession so that more students can receive the instruction needed to prepare them for future success. With support from the Corporation, and in partnership with four additional national funders, Education First will conduct a landscape scan on innovative talent structures and solutions, focused on how we can better meet student needs, particularly of those most marginalized, by redesigning critical adult roles in schools and ensuring those roles are attractive, sustainable and professionally rewarding.
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Project Title
For communications related to and planning for the future of the Coherence Lab Fellowship, a project launched as part of the Corporation's Integration Design Consortium
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
3 months
Description
The Aspen Institute Education andSociety Program, the Council of Chief State School Officers and Education First partnered to design and implement the Coherence Lab Fellowship (CLF), a practical solution to fragmentation in state education agencies (SEAs), as part of the Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium. Over two cohorts with Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Colorado, they worked with over seventyFellows, representing leaders of SEAs, local education agencies and community organizations. Fellows learned how to analyze challenges from a coherence and equity lens, build focus on fewer priorities, create new structures for meaningfully engaging and understanding stakeholders to inform policy, collaborate more effectively across silos, prototype to solve problems and foster the adult learning necessary for scaling change. This grant supports planning for the next iteration of the CLF and the execution of a communications plan.