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For continued support for the expansion, implementation, and advancement of a comprehensive workforce collaborative framework
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
JobsFirstNYC(JobsFirst) was created in 2006 to serve as a neutral intermediary to address the workforce needs of out-of-school, out-of-work young adults in New York City. JobsFirst brings together community, corporate, organizational, and private and public resources to connect young adults to the economic life in New York City. Their mission is to create and advance new solutions that transform systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic mobility. They aredeeplyfocused on the need to rebuild the economy post-COVID-19, and thiswill require a collaborative approach to transform how systems prepare rising generations for the future economy. Despite some bright spots, the systems designed to support young adults are fragmented, antiquated, and ill-equipped to answer this urgent call for change and lack a cohesive strategy. JobsFirst willexpand on the recommendations in their policy paper, implement the change framework to build a people-driven change process infrastructure, and advance policy and practice recommendations around standardizing career readiness across NYC schools.
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For project support to strengthen public understanding around postsecondary pathways and the shifting economy
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Students will always need education beyond a high school diploma to increase their opportunities for economic mobility. Although many national efforts focus on providing support to career pathways that begin in high school and articulate to postsecondary programs that culminate in credentials with labor market value, too few key education stakeholders, particularly parents, teachers, and counselors, understand the value of these opportunities in the economy. Understanding this information is especially important in the major workforce shifts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. With past Corporation support, Education Strategy Group (ESG), produced a set of tools and strategies for engaging parents, teachers, and counselors about the changing economic environment and the role that education and training beyond high school plays in opening doors to the workforce. With continued support from the Corporation, ESG will seek to produce a summary resource to share learnings and lessons from planned community workshops as well as update and build new resources for the communications toolkit as needed.
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For continued support of the enhanced Freshman Year for Free program, designed to keep college-bound high school seniors on a college track
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Modern States Education Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to making college more affordable and accessible, is undertaking an educational initiative in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The enhanced Freshman Year for Free program enables New York City students supported by several existing Education Program grantees to take online freshman-level courses taught by renowned college professors from Ivy League and selective colleges. The freshman-level courses can lead to college credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities, including CUNY and SUNY, and enable students and their families to save up to 25 percent of tuition for a four-year college degree. Teachers at each partner school/grantee site will serve as paid tutors and mentors to offer additional support. All aspects of the program will be free for students, including free online textbooks, quiz questions, and a free practice CLEP exam provided by the College Board. Continued support from the Corporation will allow Modern States Education Alliance to innovate on its original model and increase its capacity to reach more students.
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For support of a transformation agenda for public higher education systems
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
Formed in 1979, the National Association of System Heads (NASH) is the association of the chief executives of forty-three-college and university systems of public higher education in the United States. NASH systems include multiple four-year institutions, and many also include two-year institutions. Together, these public university systems educate approximately three-quarters of the nation’s students in public, four-year higher education and a significant proportion of students seeking two-year degrees. Recently, and through NASH’sleadership, higher education system leaders have adopted a transformation agenda for public higher education systems named The Power of Systems to work collaboratively in improvement cycles to deliver impact in student success at scale, with particular emphases on the redress of inequities and the promotion of economic and social mobility for all. The project is organized around three strands of work: 1) The Institute for Systems Innovation & Improvement, 2) The Redesign of State Infrastructure to Support the Power of Systems, and 3) The Federal Plan for Supporting the Power of Systems.Support from the Corporation will contribute to establishing the infrastructure required to formally launch The Power of Systems.
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For continued work to advance a learning systems approach in education
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
4 months
Description
COVID-19 has refocused both priorities and actions within the education system. One strengthened priority is the case for a learning systems approach and improved education R&D across the sector. A robust learning system is critical to facilitate efforts to set explicit equity goals and then engage in evidence-based, data-informed, and continuously improving actions to achieve them. With prior support from the Corporation, EducationCounsel has (I) launched a learning systems leadership network, (II) strengthened the R&D infrastructure with a focus on data infrastructure, and (III) promoted a strategy to shift the U.S. Department of Education towards implementation of a learning systems approach across its multiple activities. Additional support from the Corporation will allow EducationCounsel to continue advancing work in each of these three core strands in service of our shared learning systems vision.
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For The China Intelligence project
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
China’s technological and military advances are reshaping the international peace and security environment. Yet, clear understanding of these developments are limited by the Chinese government’s attempts to control information and the challenge of communicating in-depth research findings to broad audiences in the United States. With Corporation support, The China Intelligence project, led by New America Foundation in partnership with an open-source intelligence organization and the media outlet, DefenseOne, will identify new data and insights from Chinese language documents and media, and translates that information into accessible articles designed for a broad audience.
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As a final grant for Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Season 8
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
WETA (Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.) is one of 354 television stations that make up the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It uses the power of media to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has become a major figure in America’s cultural landscape, and his show Finding Your Roots is currently one of the highest-rated series on PBS. The show is a humanistic endeavor that finds a new way to communicate the complexities of American history through personal stories that trace the family trees of well-known Americans.A Carnegie Corporation grant will support the research, development, and production phases of Season 8 of Finding Your Roots. The series will continue to explore how the interaction of different racial, religious, and ethnic groups has produced our diverse society and how family genealogies can both confirm and explode many of our national myths.
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For a project to update the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
10 months
Description
Decades of research shows that family engagement matters for student success, but despite the importance of family engagement, many schools struggle to prioritize and implement equitable and effective approaches that bring families and educators together in support of students’ learning and wellbeing. National Congress of Parents and Teachers (National PTA) sits at the intersection of school, home and community, and is a trusted messenger to parents about critical issues affecting the success and safety of their children. A key part of PTA’s role is to both provide guidance on what effective family-school partnerships look like and to advocate for schools to follow that guidance as they make crucial decisions. With support from the Corporation, the PTA will update the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships (“the Standards”). The Standards have contributed to greater awareness and capacity for improving family-school partnerships. This proposed update will center the perspectives of families and educators, particularly from under-represented communities and identities, to shape the revisions and tools to maximize the usefulness of the Standards.
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For examining the strategic concept of maritime insurgency and counterinsurgency
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
68 months
Description
The South China Sea today is the site of conflicting legal regimes between two competing visions of maritime sovereignty. According to some expert analysis, the Chinese challenge constitutes a maritime insurgency that requires the United States and its allies to develop and implement a strategy of “maritime counterinsurgency” (“Maritime COIN”). This strategy would be designed to effectively protect civilians, preserve peace in the Indo-Pacific, and thereby defend freedom of navigation more broadly. This project at the U.S. Naval Institute will bring together thought leaders in the U.S. and allied maritime strategy communities to advance thinking on how Maritime COIN can be operationalized and assessed. Project findings will be shared with U.S naval officials, Congress, and other relevant government agencies.
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For building the capacity and conditions needed to scale early college programs in New York City
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Preparing all students for success in college and career requires greater alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences. Bard College(Bard)has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between high school and college for primarily first generation and low-income students.Bard currentlyoperates eight early college high schools across the country and leads policy engagement effortsfocused on scaling policies, partnerships, and practices that improve access tohigh quality early college.With Corporation support,Bard codified its pedagogical resources and conducted policy and communications activities aimed at building demand for early college in underserved communities. Continued support will enable Bardto build onpriorefforts to diffuse the early college model byadvancing policy engagement and coalition work in New York Citythrough city-level data collection and analysis, student policy engagement, and public engagement.
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For building the capacity of school and system leaders
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success and well-being. However, despite the literature and the real-world urgency created by the COVID-19 pandemic, educators have few models and limited implementation strategies for integrating socio-emotional learning (SEL) into the academic experience. The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) was founded in 1990 to ensure that traditionally underserved students are prepared for success in college and career. Using a capacity-building approach to address problems of practice and transform school environments, ISA has coached over 4,000 educators and provided personalized supports to over 80,000 students. With Corporation support, ISA developed a model for integrating critical SEL domains into academic instruction and successfully piloted the model in nine diverse secondary schools, demonstrating positive shifts in teacher practice and students’ SEL and academic skills. Continued support will allow ISA to build on this work by providing intensive capacity building to school and system leaders focused on SEL integration and educator well-being.
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For a documentary on nuclear issues "In Search of Resolution."
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
A continuing challenge of dealing with nuclear weapons is finding ways to tell their story and the dangers they pose. Emmy award-winning producer and director Robert E. Frye will create a documentary on nuclear issues titled “In Search of Resolution.” It will be the third in a series that included “In My Lifetime” in 2010 and “The Nuclear Requiem” in 2017. Both films addressed critical nuclear challenges and were broadcasted in multiple channels and online platforms. This capstone film will capture interstate relations as well as the role of civil society, and especially young activists, in global nuclear disarmament. The documentary will be widely disseminated and be available for educational purposes.
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For support to continue building the Technology Career Exploration Program
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Shared Lane Consulting Services was founded in 2021 with a mission to promote diversity and equity of access to digitally-enabled careers. Its work supports schools and organizations that are developing youth career pathways by building curriculum and teacher training around IT career opportunities within the high-demand tech-enabled economic sectors. In partnership with workforce training organization, Per Scholas, Shared Lane will continue building the Technology Career Exploration Program (TCEP) that prepares motivated and curious adults who are unemployed or underemployed for successful careers as tech professionals and creates onramps to businesses who need their talents. The grant will enhance TCEP by producing resources that provide exposure to a wider range of digitally enabled careers and support professional learning facilitation for school stakeholders. This innovative model is scalable and continues to deliver authentic tech and career development materials for schools, aligned to employer demand.
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For a project to identify potential reforms to Customs and Border Protection to ensure greater accountability and respect for constitutional rights
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
14 months
Description
The United States Constitution offers a range of basic protections to all people at points of entry and within the country’s borders. However, as documented by journalists, activists, and immigrants themselves, government agents often subject immigrants to harmful treatment in violation of American laws. Founded in 1981, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to government oversight and accountability. POGO’s initial activities focused on the military industrial complex, and it has since expanded to expose and prevent abuses of power in all three branches of the federal government. With Corporation support, POGO will produce quality research on ways to reform Customs and Border Protection and ensure that it respects the rights and dignity of all persons with whom the agency engages.
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For capacity building efforts to improve postsecondary advisement to include multiple pathways and persistence
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Student Leadership Network (SLN) supports young people from diverse underserved communities to access educational opportunities that prepare them to lead successful lives. SLN’s CollegeBound Initiative (CBI) program boasts nearly two decades of successful college access program provision, supporting nearly 19,000 young adults to enroll in college. Past Corporation support allowed SLN to build on their Alumni Engagement Team’s (AET) capacity building and programming to further develop SLN’s alumni engagement strategy both generally and in response to COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on their alumni whose postsecondary momentum has been upended. Continued Corporation support will allow for further development of alumni strategy, including strengthening collaboration between AET, CBI, and partner organizations, maximizing their online communication tools, refining current programming, and expanding their newest initiative, Bridge Through College.
Project Title
For the development of practitioner-focused communications on systems change
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
8 months
Description
Enacting true systems change within the education system is challenging; stakeholders require an understanding of multiple approaches to systems change along with aligned knowledge and tools to bring to their efforts. The Compassionate Systems Approach is one such method for addressing major challenges confronting education systems in the U.S. and around the world. With prior support from the Corporation, the Center for Systems Awareness developed materials that explain and illustrate the Compassionate Systems Approach to system change. Continued funding from the Corporation will allow the Center to expand these materials and develop a body of material that can be shared more widely. It will also allow a focus specifically on how the tools and methods and general approach to change embedded in compassionate systems is being used to address equity.
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For promoting institutional advancement within the African Research Universities Alliance
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Global philanthropy is expected to grow over the next decade. As Africa becomes more prosperous, African universities are well placed to benefit from philanthropic opportunities within the continent and globally, yet few have expertiseand infrastructure to access philanthropic funding. University of Stellenbosch (SU), based in South Africa,has become a leading university fundraiser on the continent in recent years. Through membership in the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), a network of sixteen emerging research universities,SU will collaborate with ARUA fundraisers toexchangelearnings, establish a network of fundraising practitioners, and expand philanthropic opportunities for ARUA. Corporation support will contribute to research, workshops, and dissemination.
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For project support for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program is designed to tackle: 1. The national shortage of high-quality STEM teachers, 2. The lack of opportunities for students from underrepresented groups to participate in STEM enrichment activities during the summer, and 3. The need for meaningful professional development and leadership opportunities for STEM teachers. The TEU program developed a model of a summer STEM program that effectively addresses these issues, and it offers undergraduate STEM majors an opportunity to explore and deepen their interest in teaching with a cohort of peers through an immersive experience that integrates a discipline-specific pedagogy course with a teaching practicum on STEM enrichment for predominantlyhigh-need secondary students. Past Corporation support funded a TEU site basedin New York City and developed through a partnership between the AmericanMuseum of Natural History (AMNH) and Barnard College. Continued Corporation supportwill allow for a scale-up of the project to include evaluation and research tocompare sites in terms of implementation and effectiveness.
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For research and evaluation of mental health strategies aimed at students of color
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2014, the Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color as they transition from high school into higher education, throughout their higher education experience, and as they transition to the workforce. This is a period during which more than 70 percentof mental health challenges first present. Research shows a troubling inequity in both access to mental health care and outcomes for young people of color. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded these stressors, which have not abated as young people return to their classrooms. Operating at the intersection of race and mental health, the Steve Fund addresses gaps in access and services for our nation’s young people of color by 1. Building knowledge and thought leadership, 2. Delivering impactful programs and strategic partnerships, 3. Promoting awareness and dialogue, and 4. Producing immediate impact through tech innovations. Corporation support will allow the Steve Fund to deepen understanding, knowledge, and skills for conducting evaluations that provide valuable learnings into how to support the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color.
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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.
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For a new framework for U.S.-China economic relations and U.S. quantum technology strategy
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Sino-American relations have veered into a realm of zero-sum competition and disruptive decoupling. The strategic benefits of economic integration have been devalued as leaders on both sides seek to minimize perceived economic and security risks arising from commercial ties. Scientific and technical ties are equally strained. The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) proposes a two-part project to address these issues. Drawing on an analysis of past economic negotiations, part one will assess options for bringing the United States and China back to the table for constructive engagement on economic issues. This work will culminate in a report outlining a framework to guide this relationship that balances security concerns with the continued benefits of trade and investment. Part two will involve a case study on quantum science and technology as a window into the intricacies of U.S.-China technological competition. It will assess the current state of research, technical hurdles, and implications of quantum in China’s military-civilinitiatives. The two projects will inform, and benefit from, their respective work and findings
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For general support and support of the Boulder Fund
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization committed to ensuring young people of color have the supports needed to thrive, capitalize on opportunities, and build generational wealth. To achieve this vision, they work to dramatically increase the number of effective, values-aligned leaders of color serving in high-level positions in education and adjacent fields where they can be a transformative force in the lives of children, families and communities. EdLoC’s cross-sector approach places education at the center, addressing issues of equity within and across adjacent sectors such as employment and housing. Prior Corporation funding provided general support to launch the organization and targeted funding to launch the Boulder Fund, their philanthropic arm; this grant renews support for both.
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For the Postsecondary Pipeline Big Idea and a research project on the impact of COVID
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Since March of 2020 the pandemic has disrupted almost every facet of education. Now, with most students back in schools and the availability of ESSER funding, there are increasing calls to “rebuild” or “re-envision” the sector. Bellwether Education seeks to build a learning and improvement agenda to both help students recover from the pandemic and seed enduring changes to the contexts and conditions of the education sector. This grant will support two initiatives: (1) helping the field learn from this moment via data and research to understand how COVID-era policies are impacting students; and (2) generating new solutions to critical challenges through leveraging Bellwether’s ‘do-tank’ approach to surface new thinking and build the more nimble, generative, and flexible contexts and conditions necessary for improvement, with a focusaround postsecondary pathways.
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For continued work on the Coherence Lab Fellowship
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Disconnected and sometimes dueling education reform initiatives cause inefficiency, confusion, alienation and lackluster results. This lack of integration occurs at the federal, state, district and school levels due in part to lacking organizational capabilities, structures, and incentives for effective cross-agency integration and collaboration. With support from the Corporation, the Coherence Lab Fellowship was launched in 2017 as a practical solution to addressing these challenges. To date, the Fellowship has worked with five state education agencies to build the mindsets, skills, tools, and processes to address systemic barriers to coherence. This grant will allow the development and testing of a scaling strategy that (a) includes improvements to the model to capitalize on learnings, (b) increases the number of individuals who engage with the coherence challenge, and (c) deepens and sustains the organizational impact for participants.
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As a one-time only grant for a pilot project on rebuilding trust in post-conflict countries
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
42 months
Description
Violence and conflict erode community trust and social cohesion. In the aftermath of conflict, peacebuilding depends on identifying opportunities to rebuild communal bonds. With Corporation support, Washington State University, in partnership with Accountability Lab Zimbabwe and Tree of Life Zimbabwe, will pilot different community-level trust-building initiatives to study their efficacy and efficiency in reducing politically motivated violence. The project’s findings will contribute to understandings of social cohesion on peace and stability and support practical project design for peacebuilding programs.
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For the AWARD leadership program for emerging African women in science
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Globally, women account for a significantly smaller portion of scientific research output, leading to an increased demand in the African scholarly community to expand women’s professional leadership programs to build a pool of capable, influential women leaders in science. Successful interventions require targeted programs to addressimpediments to women’s progress into leadership. The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Leadership Program for Women in Science will equip women with skills and access to networks to build capabilities and confidence to grow in leadership positions. Corporation support will target 50 competitively selectedearly-career scientistsfor an immersive virtual leadership program. This grant will support professional and academic skills training, coaching, and networking activities.
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For the Center for Peace and Development partnership with the Security in Context Network
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
For decades the Arab region has been a theater of internationalized armed conflicts, foreign policy interventions, and shifting geopolitical orders that require analysis and communication by scholars and researchers. In response to these changing circumstances and with Corporation support, scholars have formed Security in Context (SiC), an interdisciplinarynetwork of university nodes promoting collaborative research, policy analysis and outreach on key questions regarding peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, and international norms. Since 2020, the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Peace and Development has served as a node of the network in the southern United States under the thematic title “Peace, Conflict, and International Political Economy.” In complementarity to partner nodes in the network, this hub will focus ontransnational financial and economic trends affecting the Middle East and other regions. Renewed Corporation funding will supportworking groups,publications, public events, and partnerships with Middle Eastern and Global South institutions.
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For project support to create and launch a national expansion support model
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Build UP is an early-college workforce development model that provides low-income youth career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships with industry-aligned secondary and early postsecondary academic coursework leading them to become educated, credentialed, and empowered civic leaders, professionals, homeowners, and landlords. Throughout the full-time, year-round program, youth split their time between academic and career development settings, gaining knowledge directly applicable to paid apprenticeships in high-demand fields. Build UP’s student apprentices collaboratively rehab blighted abandoned homes and lots and relocated donated homes that would otherwise end up in landfills, creating affordable and sustainable options for achieving like-new, multi-unit homeownership. Support from the Corporation will allow Build UP to continue to pursue a financially sustainable model expansion by ensuring funding streams are effectively braided from state, regional, and local sources, including public, private, and philanthropic, to fully leverage all relevant funding opportunities.
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For a project to build capacity for and develop a science pathway for their Standards Institute
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
High-quality professional learning must be grounded in the intersection of standards, content, aligned curriculum, and equity, and is essential for closing the opportunity gap caused by systemic bias and racism. UnboundEd envisions a world in which educators actively work together to dismantle systemic racism by providing grade-level, engaging, affirming, and meaningful instruction. Since its inception, their Standards Institute has offered pathways for math educators, English Language Arts educators, and leaders centered on these components. They are now ready to embark on the creation of a new pathway for science educators and play a role in helping science teachers make the shifts the Next Generation Science Standards require and that high-quality instructional materials, like OpenSciEd, enable. As with other pathways, this experience will be the professional development educators need to accelerate students to grade level and beyond, enabling all students to thrive in school and in life. Through this work, UnboundEd will a) build the design of the science pathway and associated outcomes, objectives, content, and measures, b) consult with experts in the field, and c) include the science pathway in their marketing materials for Winter 2023 Standards Institute.
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For a project to build awareness of available high-quality science instructional materials through in-person and virtual professional learning opportunities
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
33 months
Description
Although there isstrongdemand for high-quality science instructional materials, the supply in the education communitycontinues to belacking. There are, however, national projects that serve as both exemplars ofhigh-qualityscience instructional materials designed for theNext Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and professional learning opportunities for educators and leaders seeking supportinstructionalshiftsin teaching science.Foralmost a decade, the National Science TeachingAssociation (NSTA) has played an important role as a major convener and source of high-quality resources for the science education community.In this project, NSTA proposes a three-pronged approach to increase awareness and understanding of high-qualityscienceinstructional materials through dissemination using professional learning at NSTA national conferences, through a web seminar series, and through development ofonlineprofessional learningcourses.
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For support of Bridges to Tech, addressing the digital divide in public housing
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
EveryoneOn works to create social and economic opportunity by connecting low-income families to affordable internet service and computers, and by delivering digital skills training. Since 2012 EveryoneOn has connected over 890,000 people to high-speed internet, deployed thousands of devices, and facilitated hundreds of digital trainings across the nation for the most vulnerable among us. The current pandemic exacerbates the negative impacts of the existing digital divide, namely the lack of high-speed internet at home and a reliable internet connection, and access to resources and support to prepare for postsecondary education, on low-income students. Corporation support will facilitate the continued implementation of EveryoneOn’s Bridges-to-Tech program building pathways to digital resilience and equity, college access, and career exploration and readiness for high school students and adults in the Bay Area, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, South Salt Lake, and Jersey City.
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For the promotion of holistic admission practices that increase admission of students of color, students from low-income households, and other historically underrepresented groups
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) is an association of more than 11,000 higher education professionals representing approximately 2,600 institutions. Its mission is to provide professional development, guidelines, and voluntary standards regarding the best practices in admissions, enrollment management, administrative IT, and student services. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many colleges and universities opted to go test-optional in their admissions practices creating a crisis that exacerbated, rather than address, race and income inequality in college admissions. With Corporation support, AACRAO launched the first convening of these institutions, seeking to highlight the challenge and stimulate proactive approaches to the problem. With continued Corporation support, AACRAO will launch the next phase of this work, providing necessary resources and expertise to institutions attempting to understand and implement holistic/equity admissions.
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For support of high school model development and capacity building efforts
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
9 months
Description
In order to advance a vision in which all students are prepared with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need for postsecondary success, the New Designs portfolio supports the creation of innovative schools that personalize student learning, as well as the capacity-building of adults and systems in support of these efforts.BES has a twenty-year history of supporting leaders to create new schools in their communities and to sustain andimprove them over time.BES Fellows have designed and launched 195 public schoolsacross the countryserving over63,000 students per year, the majority of whom are students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.WhileBES schoolseach have unique designs and prioritiesthat areresponsive to their local communities, they have all achieved strong outcomesandmost schools outperform theirlocal districts on state assessments inmathematics and English language arts. With Corporation support, BES will support a cohort of fellows through the school design process and improve the organization’s ability to support fellows who are launching new high schools.
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For the Roundtable on Military Cyber Stability
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
As societies have come to rely on modern information and communications technologies, new potential sources of error and instability are being introduced into military systems, operations, and force postures. By analogy to the nuclear era, there is a need again to develop shared understandings across the major powers of how to manage the cyber instabilities that could arise from cyber attacks, errors in information systems, interactions of complex systems, misunderstood doctrines, third party actors, changing assumptions underpinning previously stable force postures, and more. The Roundtable on Military Cyber Stability (RMCS), administered by Igarape Inc, provides a vehicle for U.S., Russian, and Chinese scholars and practitioners to discuss cyber security and generate risk mitigation and confidence building measures.
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For support of the 2022 Summit on Improvement in Education
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
5 months
Description
We will never meet our rising aspirations for student achievement without building capacities across the education field for a robust national improvement infrastructure, one that can accelerate the needed transformation in education. In response to this challenge, in 2014, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) launched their Summit on Improvement in Education with a simple but ambitious idea: if education leaders combined the discipline of improvement science and the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning, then the rate and spread of improvement in education might accelerate dramatically. CFAT is now preparing to host its eighth annual Summit, bringing together close to 2,000 education stakeholders with the aim of building the field’s capacity to learn through practice to improve – continuing the focus from the 2020 Summit on increasing the diversity of attendees. This grant provides support for the 2022 Summit.
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For the project, "The Chicago Story: Lessons for Building an Educational Improvement Infrastructure"
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
8 months
Description
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) seeks to describe the development of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure over the past thirty years, serving as both a clarion call and a blueprint for collective action and civic commitment for public education. With Corporation support they have engaged in a process that (i) convened key architects and actors responsible; (ii) investigated and documented the work over time; (iii) illuminated the current state of Chicago’s educational improvement infrastructure; (iv) identified strategies for strengthening core supports; and (v) distilled key lessons that can be used by leaders in other metropolitan seeking to build a similar educational improvement infrastructure. This grant will allow CFAT to complete the work, including addressing key learnings and expansions to scope that were unanticipated but prove core to our common goals.
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For continued work to advance a learning systems approach in education
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
COVID-19 has refocused both priorities and actions within the education system. It has also shone a light on long-standing challenges and inequities in the system, strengthening the case for a learning systems approach that supports efforts to set explicit equity goals and then engages in evidence-based, data-informed, and continuously improving actions to achieve them. With prior support from the Corporation, EducationCounsel has engaged in work to shift the education system to function as a learning system. Additional support from the Corporation will allow EducationCounsel to continue these efforts to (i) strengthen as well as drive coherence across efforts to advance the R&D infrastructure, (ii) promote a strategy to shift the U.S. Department of Education towards implementation of a learning systems approach across its multiple activities, and (iii) manage and grow the Learning Systems Leadership Network.
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As a final grant to support the Global Science of Learning Education Network (GSoLEN)
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The Global Science of Learning and Education Network (GSoLEN) is a global network aimed at promoting the wide-scale and effective implementation of Science of Learning (SoL) in education. Their international network includes over 700 researchers, organizations, and leaders from over 60 countries representing the education, research, policy, and philanthropic communities. Key to their work to advance the implementation of SoL in education is a focus on Action Collaboratives, where network members investigate and apply key learnings within targeted areas such as digital learning, social media use for minors, the science of adolescent learning, and knowledge brokering. Continued support from the Corporation will allow GSoLEN to continue building its network and the associated infrastructure to support this collaboration as well as facilitate key action collaboratives.
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For the COVID Constituency Project
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
6 months
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Over the past year, with support from the Corporation, The Hunt Institute in partnership with Gov. Bob Wise established the COVID Constituency in direct response to the pandemic and its long-lasting impact on students, families, and our education system. The COVID Constituency has sought to cut through the political headlines to gather first-hand experiences, perceptions, and recommendations from those most impacted by our education system. Through mediums such as polling, focus groups, and surveys, the Constituency has gathered opinions from parents, teachers, and others to identify a shared set of priorities and lift up demand for a transformed education system. Additional grant support will allow the Constituency to engage in policy development and implementation with state and district leaders, continue to identify parent needs and priorities, grow their partner network, and implement a robust media strategy.
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For support of a project to enhance and expand an online citizenship application platform
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
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Despite the clear benefits of citizenship—including expanded employment opportunities, protection from deportation, and the right to vote—less than 10 percent of the nearly 9 million eligible legal permanent residents choose to naturalize each year. Low rates of naturalization are attributable to a range of factors, including an arcane and complex process, high fees for private legal assistance, and limited availability of nonprofit providers. Created by the Immigration Advocates Network (housed at Pro Bono Net), Citizenshipworks is a technological platform designed to make the naturalization process more accessible to immigrants. Citizenshipworks enables anyone with internet access to screen for eligibility, complete their forms, and connect to virtual or in-person legal assistance.With Corporation support, the Immigration Advocates Network will continue to reduce barriers to naturalization, improve user accessibility, and ensure the platform’s sustainability.
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For providing work-based learning opportunities to high school students
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
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While the nation has made impressive strides toward greater high school completion, college and career readiness have not kept pace and achievement gaps remain. In response to these gaps, the Corporation has long articulated the need for a more robust high school experience that blends academic and applied learning. DreamYard Project, Inc. (DreamYard) has over two decades of experience engaging a broad coalition of stakeholders to transform the educational and career pathways available to students in the Bronx. Prior Corporation support enabled DreamYard to launch HERE to HERE, which is now an independent organization bridging the gap between education and the world of work, and to support a network of ten partner schools providing work-based learning (WBL) opportunities to their students. Continued support will allow DreamYard to expand WBL opportunities for high school students in the Bronx, create the tools and resources needed for schools to implement WBL, and develop a WBL demonstration site to share learning with other schools across the city.
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For building the capacity of #DegreesNYC's Data Co-Op and Youth-Led Research
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
15 months
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While there is a robust set of community-based organizations supporting young people in New York City, particularly with the goal of preparing them for college and career, these organizations often work in siloes and lack the mechanisms needed to share learning and measure impact. #DegreesNYC is a collective impact initiative focused on improving postsecondary access and completion in New York City by bringing organizations together under a shared set of goals and structures. In partnership with the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, #DegreesNYC facilitates a data co-op with twenty-two community-based organizations and school networks to equip them with the data and skills needed to improve programming and post-secondary outcomes for students. Prior Corporation support enabled #DegreesNYC to expand data co-op membership by seven organizations, advance policy efforts focused on career pathways, and report on systemic inequities in the postsecondary education pipeline through the “Changing the Odds” report released in January 2022. Continued support will allow #DegreesNYC to expand youth-led research opportunities and build the capacity of the data co-op to use data to inform the field and achieve better outcomes for youth.
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For applying the science of adolescent learning to school improvement strategies
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
18 months
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The science of adolescent learning and development illuminates key lessons for how to craft developmentally responsive learning environments that more effectively and equitably support student success. However, this knowledge has not yet been broadly disseminated into the education field nor translated into practical recommendations that educators and leaders can enact. With Corporation support, the Opportunity Institute (OI) launched the Adolescent Learning and Development Project (ALDP), which provides science-informed training and coaching to city, district, and school leaders in underserved communities and shares resources and recommendations with a broader national audience. Continued Corporation support will allow OI to deepen and expand this work in targeted school districts, disseminate resources and findings to a national audience, facilitate training and a community of practice for educators and district leaders, and work with policymakers to support the development of policy roundtables in ALDP communities.
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For a project to continue the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership to support OpenSciEd state and district leadership teams
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
17 months
Description
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Framework for K-12 Science Education require teachers to shift instruction to engage students in relevant phenomena using science and engineering practices. As a result, there is a growing demand for high-quality science instructional materials designed for the Framework and the NGSS. As theOpenSciEdmiddle school science curriculum is completed, many schools and districts around the country are ready to formally adopt and implementOpenSciEd. WestEd and BSCS Science Learning are developing the capacity of state and district leadership team through the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership. They will provide professional learning and supports to a cohort of four state and eight district leadership teams to lead effective implementation of theOpenSciEdmiddle school curriculum in their individual contexts. Through this grant for Year 2 of the NEXUS Academy, WestEd and BSCS will co-lead annual institutes, webinars, convenings, and technical assistance for each leadership team, and share learnings about the program to the field.
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For a project to plan and launch a curriculum-based professional learning network to implement the newly revised Standards for Professional Learning
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
21 months
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Implementing new instructional materials is a significant undertaking that requires focused and coherent curriculum-based professional learning aligned to research-based Standards for Professional Learning to build educators’ capacity to achieve the curriculum’s goals and related student standards. Learning Forward helps improve the capacity of education leaders to establish and sustain highly effective professional learning. They recently releasedthe revised Standards for Professional Learning, which are considered the gold standard for designing and assessing effective professional learning. This grant will allow Learning Forward to design a two-year Curriculum-Based Professional Learning (CBPL) Network for districts and schools that are implementing high-quality curriculum.
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For a project to complete reviews and revisions of interim assessments aligned to the OpenSciEd middle school curriculum
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
9 months
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With therecentcompletion of the OpenSciEd middle schoolsciencecurriculum, and three state-level science adoptionscoming up in2023-24,itis a crucial time to fortify curriculumprogramswith aligned, high-quality interimassessments andperformancetasks.Fortunately, the Lawrence Hall of Science(LHS)and Learning Tapestryhavedevelopeda set of interim assessments to be a bridge between curriculum and standardized assessments.To date, the item sets have notbeen aligned to the OpenSciEd curriculumandhave not been externally reviewed.CenterPointEducation Solutions’efforts are focused on improving access to high-quality curriculum and aligned assessments, and on empowering educators to use these resources through effective professional learning.Over the course of the proposed project, CenterPoint will oversee review and revisions to the LHSinterim assessmentitemsand align them tothe OpenSciEd curriculum. The CenterPoint team willalso conductinitial market research and planning for marketing and sales of the packaged aligned tasks.
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For a project to build capacity in the Instructional Materials and Professional Development Network of states focusing on improving science education
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
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To date, the primary focus in states has been on the adoption and implementation of high-quality instructional materials and aligned professional learning in English Language Arts and math. States are committed to building on the progress in these content areas and are interested in taking deliberate steps to expand this important work to include science. Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has led the Instructional Materials and Professional Development (IMPD) Network for the last five years, dedicated to ensuring that every student, every day, is engaged in meaningful, affirming, grade-level instruction. CCSSO’s IMPD Network supports twelve states as they work with their districts to adopt high-quality instructional materials and provide professional development opportunities aligned to those materials. Through this grant, CCSSO will support states to take deliberate steps to integrate science into their broader strategies. This project will allow CCSSO to: a) add a science expert to their IMPD experts to continue building capacity for the internal team and coaches, as well as provide strategic support to Network states, b) onboard science leads from each state into the Network, and c) support states in planning for the collection and reporting of data on science adoptions and use.
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For a project to provide district-level curriculum-based professional learning tools and resources and to provide standards-aligned online professional learning
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
6 months
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Rigorous standards have been adopted throughout the country, but they themselves cannot raise student achievement levels. Teachers and system leaders need guidance on how to implement standards-aligned and high-quality instructional materials with effective, job-embedded curriculum-based professional learning. Student Achievement Partners (SAP) is an organization that has been instrumental in preparing educators at all levels – from classroom teachers to state level policy leaders. They have played a key role in supporting teachers to understand and deliver clear instructional priorities to accelerate learning for all students. Through this renewal grant, SAP will continue to a) provide district-level professional learning designers and decision-makers with curriculum-based professional learning tools and resources and b) provide free or low-cost, high-quality, standards-aligned online professional learning.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Science education, like many areas in the K-12 education field, is fragmented and lacks coherent implementation of innovations that lead to improvements in student outcomes. Curriculum, assessment, teacher learning, organizational change, and policy are frequently siloed from each other by people and organizations who only have expertise in one of these components. This expertise and knowledge are also not easily accessible by the school districts that need it most. BSCS Science Learning transforms science education through research-driven innovations to overcome the challenges of compartmentalization and concentration of knowledge that is a barrier to a coherent system. Through this general support grant, BSCS will improve implementation of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning and develop a theory of action to implement reform.
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For a project to design and pilot a district-based professional learning program and facilitator credentialing program based on the Standards Institute
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
18 months
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The adoption of college- and career-ready standards is one of the most important changes in U.S. education policy in recent decades. However, teachers and school leaders lack deep knowledge of these standards and high-quality instructional materials designed to support standards-based instruction. UnboundEd currently provides immersive, standards-aligned professional learning opportunities through their week-long Standards Institutes for teachers and instructional leaders focused on ELA and mathematics. They are now ready to scale these types of professional learning opportunities at the local level and expand the Standards Institute to include science education. Through this project, UnboundEd will complete their facilitator credentialing program and develop a Science Pathway for the Standards Institute.
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