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For core support of The Starfish Institute
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
The 100Kin10 partnership has brought significant national attention to the need to recruit and retain excellent STEM teachers at an unprecedented scale. 100Kin10 has been widely endorsed by leaders across sectors, and has mobilized over 300 diverse partners including non-profit organizations, universities, government entities, and corporations to make concrete commitments to increase the supply of STEM teachers, retain excellent STEM teachers, and build the movement. Over the past decade, with the support of the Corporation, 100Kin10 has surpassed its initial goal of preparing 100,000 STEM teachers. With continued support from the Corporation, 100Kin10 aims to apply the innovative and effective strategies developed and refined over the last decade to reach a new goal of preparing 150,000 new STEM teachers and retaining150,000 STEM teachers by 2032, with a particular focus on schools serving majority Black, Latinx, and Native American students.
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For project support to disseminate stories from their unComission findings to help build towards the goal to prepare and retain 150,000 STEM teachers over the next decade
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Starting in 2010, 100Kin10 launched and grew a national network of diverse organizations committed to providing the country’s classrooms with 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in ten years. With 2021 marking the project’s tenth year and on track to reach this goal, the unCommission on STEM learning and opportunity was launched to hear, learn from, and uplift the lived experiences of students with STEM. Through continued support from the Corporation of unCommission,100Kin10 will launch a dissemination campaign to build towards their goal for the next decade: to prepare and retain 150,000 STEM teachers, especially for schools experiencing the greatest STEM teacher shortages, creating the conditions for all students, with a particular focus on Black, Latinx, and Native American students, to thrive in STEM learning.
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For a project of The Starfish Institute to launch the unCommission
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Starting in 2010, 100Kin10 launched and grew a national network of diverse organizations committed to providing the country’s classrooms with 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in ten years. With 2021 marking the project’s tenth year and on track to reach this goal, the unCommission on STEM learning and opportunity was launched to hear, learn from, and uplift the lived experiences of students with STEM. Through this cross-portfolio grant, the unCommission will focus on schools and systems around the country that are implementing OpenSciEd curricula to support students’ learning experiences in science education. This project will inform the Call to Action for Science Education and future goals of 100Kin10.
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For support of a network of district partners implementing change management strategies
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Many visionary school operators have begun to forge paths to new models, yielding proof points of what is possible through school-based innovation. However, scaling these models to the system level continues to be a challenge. Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) has begun to address this challenge through the development of a framework entitled Transformation Design, a new approach to school district change management. Specifically, NGLC has conducted deep research into the design and practice of change management from across sectors and has worked with six exemplar school districts and leading experts in educational change to build a foundational set of next generation change management constructs, strategies, tools, and resources.With continued support, NGLC willsupporta national network of districtsto implement this approach, integrate next generation and liberatory learning, leverage the national network to advance fieldwide progress, and plan for expanded impact in a future phase of work.
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For refining and disseminating school district change management strategies
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
28 months
Description
Many visionary school operators have begun to forge paths to new models, yielding proof points of what is possible through school-based innovation. However, scaling these models to the system level continues to be a challenge. With current Corporation support, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) has begun to address this challenge through the development ofa framework entitledTransformation Science, a new approach to school district change management. Specifically, NGLC has conducted deep research into the design and practice of change management from across sectors, and has worked with six exemplar school districts and leading experts in educational change to build a foundational set of next generation change management constructs, strategies, tools, and resources. With continued support, NGLC will partner with a greater number of districts to implement this new approach, testing and verifying whether it is an effective and scalable strategy to support district-level change.
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For the Education Practice at Project Evident to provide services to the field during COVID-19 recovery
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based education programming has grown over thepast several years, a persistent gap remains between research and practice.Priorities and incentives are misaligned across these stakeholders, withnonprofits and districts rarely the drivers of the research agenda or inpossession of the evaluative capacity to develop and iterate upon evidence-based programming. Spun out of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in 2017,Project Evident was founded to increase the practice of continuous evidence-building and the supply of evidence-based solutions in the social sector.In fall 2019, they launched an Education Practice to deepen their impactand reach by beginning to work directly with state education agencies andlocal education agencies. This grant will support the Education Practice’s deepengagements with two districts over two years to help them navigate theCOVID-19 crisis, informed by data and evidence.
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For a project to identify, adapt, and implement effective change management strategies within a school district context
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
Many visionary school operators have begun to forge paths to new school models in both the charter and district contexts, creating proof points of what works and delivering student-centered educational experiences to tens of thousands of students. Scaling up innovation continues to be a challenge within the education field, however, in part due to the outdated change management strategies that typically characterize districts’ attempts to scale the innovation seeded at the school level. Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), an initiative of EDUCAUSE and leader in innovative school design for almost a decade, is well-positioned to address this challenge of applying lessons learned from innovative school design more broadly. Acting upon the belief that implementation and scale of innovative learning models requires equally innovative adoption strategies at the district level, NGLC will build the field’s capacity to scale innovation through the development, testing, and eventual proliferation of “next generation adoption strategies.”
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For core support of Project Evident
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based education programming has grown over the past several years—among nonprofits, funders, and policy-makers alike—siloes within the education sector have resulted in a persistent gap between research and practice. Funders and nonprofits have different evidence priorities, nonprofits lack evaluative capacity, and third-party evaluators don’t fully meet nonprofit needs. Project Evident (PE) was created earlier this year to remove barriers to the creation and improvement of evidence-based practices such that nonprofits can more readily implement programs supported by research, and so that the students they serve can thrive. With Corporation support, PE will: 1) Pioneer a scalable new model for strategic, continuous evidence building in partnership with nonprofit clients through the Learning and Evaluation Support Center; and 2) Pioneer a scalable new model for supporting nonprofit organizations to use low-cost, high-quality data and evaluation tools through the Research and Development (R&D) Lab.
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For supporting the ongoing growth, development, and sustainability of 100Kin10
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
98 months
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For ReThink Media's efforts to build media capacity of select nuclear security grantees
Date
Dec. 15, 2011
Duration
24 months
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Toward development of education-related policy recommendations to inform reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
21 months
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Toward the ReThink Media project to strengthen the media capacity of select nuclear security grantees
Date
Dec. 03, 2009
Duration
24 months
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For Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group 2008 membership dues
Date
Mar. 06, 2008
Duration
12 months
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Toward a public education and outreach campaign on the importance of voting
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
17 months
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For Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group 2007 membership dues
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
12 months
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For Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group 2006 membership dues
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
12 months
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Toward a conference evaluating the role of the women's vote in the 2004 election, focusing on new and infrequent voters
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
10 months
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For continuation of the documentation study of the New Century High Schools partnership strategy
Date
Dec. 01, 2005
Duration
72 months
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For its project, the Opportunity Agenda, analyzing public opinion research and developing media messages on immigrant integration
Date
Sep. 29, 2005
Duration
13 months
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For Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group membership dues
Date
Apr. 08, 2004
Duration
24 months
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Toward support of Cast the Vote
Date
Sep. 30, 2004
Duration
12 months