Turnaround for Children, Inc.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While the literature indicates a relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and academic outcomes, SEL is too often treated as an add-on to academic instruction rather than as a central component. Turnaround for Children (Turnaround) was established to address the impact of adversity on student learningby equipping educators with the knowledge and tools needed to supportacademic growthandwhole childdevelopment. Over the course of the last twenty years, Turnaround has helped integrate SEL in hundreds of underserved school communities across the country, improving school climate and student engagement. Corporation support has enabled Turnaround to create tools for educators and inform the field of best practices to promote positive learning and development, which have been critical during the pandemic. With renewed support, Turnaround will continue playing a field leadership role in COVID-19 recovery efforts focused on SEL, refine educator tools, advance the field’s understanding of SEL, and equip educators to successfully integrate SEL into their instructional practice.
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For building system capacity to support socio-emotional learning
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
While the literature indicates a positive relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and long-term life outcomes, there remains a dearth of program models and readily available tools that enable educators to marry SEL with academic instruction. In its sixteen-year history, Turnaround for Children (Turnaround) has both contributed to this research base and helped translate it into practice in schools. During that time, Turnaround has partnered with educators in over 100 school environments serving high-needs populations, resulting in improved student perceptions of school safety, quality of relationships with teachers, classroom belonging, and classroom engagement. Turnaround has also actively worked to build awareness of the impact of adversity on a child’s ability to learn, including significant research and dissemination activities. With renewed Corporation support, Turnaround will build upon this work through continued tool development, innovative measurement approaches, and a diverse set of service delivery models that build practitioner capacity.
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For a research and development project to translate learning science research into high-leverage practices for schools
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
Recent advances in learning science research have highlighted the role that cognitive and social-emotional skills play in success in and beyond school. Yet, there is still a lack of readily available instructional tools to teach these skills. Turnaround for Children recently released Building Blocks, a landmark framework that identifies teachable cognitive and social-emotional skills that support academic achievement and outlines a developmental progression of prerequisite skills that must be cultivated before acquiring higher-order skills. Over the course of this grant, Turnaround will create a set of classroom-level resources that will make the Building Blocks framework actionable and support the acquisition of “co-academic” skills and mindsets.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 12, 2014
Duration
18 months
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For general support
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
18 months
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For capacity building to achieve increased impact and scale
Date
Dec. 02, 2010
Duration
24 months
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For a codification of school turnaround partnership model and development of strategic plan for expansion
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
12 months