Grants

Transforming Education

Project Title

For support to incorporate a racial equity lens into socio-emotional learning tools and resources

Date

Mar. 10, 2022

Duration

12 months

Description

While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack the tools needed to implement SEL in a comprehensive and equitable way. Transforming Education (TransformEd) partners with districts, schools, and community-based organizations serving over one million students across the country to effectively integrate SEL into the learning experience.TransformEdalso develops and disseminates open-source resources that reach educators across the world. Prior Corporation support enabledTransformEdto participate in acomprehensive equity training processfocused on building staff capacity to create culturally responsive resources and deliver services in an equitable way. Continued supportwill allowTransformEdto advance the staff capacity building efforts and develop an internal playbook to guide the organization’s approach to providingequitable SELservicesto schools and districts.

Project Title

For support to incorporate a racial equity lens into socio-emotional learning tools and resources

Date

Jun. 03, 2021

Duration

9 months

Description

While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack thetools needed to implement SEL in a comprehensive and equitable way. Transforming Education (TransformEd) partners with districts, schools, and community-based organizations serving over one million students across the country to effectively integrate SEL into the learning experience.TransformEdalso develops and disseminates open-source resources that reach educators across the world. Given this wide reach,TransformEdis planning to participate in a comprehensive equity training process. With Corporationsupport,TransformEdwill complete three equity design cycles and receive coaching from Equity Meets Design to ensure that its direct service approach and resources are culturally relevant and contribute to equitable outcomes for students.