Education
Grants Awarded

Advance Illinois works to ensure a more equitable education system that enables all students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life.

Bank Street plans to support Cohort II teacher residents through graduation from our Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Teacher Residency Program, launch the first year residency for Cohort III teacher residents, and continue our work to secure government support to sustain the model.

LEAD Hubs identified improving equity competencies for district and building leaders as a key driver for school improvement. Funding will sustain leadership training and resources in LEAD Hubs through development of toolkit and by building organizational capacity to sustain Leaders for Equity and Leaders for English Learners Micro-Credentials.

BPE plans to assist approximately 1000 students through our neighborhood-based Teaching Academies while developing a diverse cohort of educators for Boston Public Schools (BPS) through our Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) program.

The Center for Collaborative Education’s statewide advocacy campaign supports to leverage state policy changes to transform Massachusetts’ current education assessment system.

The Chicago Public Education Fund plans to support their direct-to-principal programming. In the 2021-22 school year, they will serve more than 280 principals and aspiring principals and make our supports responsive to the needs of school leaders during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

This grant will strengthen Internationals’ capacity to create schools that close the achievement gap for MLLs. These activities will deepen Internationals’ impact on MLL educator practice within and beyond the network and build the organization’s capacity to advocate for policies and practices leading to more equitable educational opportunities for MLLs.

LPI seeks support for the Shared Learning Initiative, a collaboration with the California Partnership for the Future of Learning to build the capacity of key CA education stakeholders—grassroots groups, advocates, and policymakers—to understand and advance structures, policies, and practices to catalyze change for more equitable and racially just school systems.

NCTR proposes a partnership with the Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) to study the Black Educators Initiative (BEI) to strengthen the recruitment, preparation, and retention of Black teachers through teacher residency programs in the NCTR network. This evaluation will benefit teacher residency programs, teacher preparation, and most importantly, Black teacher candidates.

Funding would support (1) discounts to leaders and teams that want to attend our institutes but are struggling financially, (2) increasing our offerings of affinity learning communities, and (3) expanding access to our training offerings through the launch of asynchronous course(s).

NTC is a leader in education — one of few with proven results. With general operating support, NTC can embrace next-level leadership — establishing best practices for school systems, creating transformational change for educators, and accelerating students’ social-emotional and academic growth after the most challenging year in K-12 education.

Partners in School Innovation (Partners) employs a variety of service delivery models to introduce results-oriented continuous improvement practices as a means towards achieving lasting systemic progress. Using its assessments and protocols, Partners works to improve school climate and culture and instruction in traditionally low-performing schools serving predominantly Black and Latinx students from low-income communities. Many of these schools had challenges prior to the pandemic and these challenges have grown in response to COVID-19.

AQE will develop and execute a plan to influence how federal ARPA and state resources are invested in order to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of students and their families as our communities recover from the impact of COVID-19 and decades of systemic racism in education.

They will launch a school-level initiative to support integrating transformative social-emotional learning (TSEL) in Boston Public Schools. Schools will build capacity and develop plans for implementing TSEL schoolwide. Separately, we will also carry on policy reform efforts through Open Opportunity – Massachusetts, a cross-sector network of 40+ organizations.

Teach Plus delivers programs that empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key education policy and practice issues that advance equity, opportunity, and student success.

The general operating grant will be used to engage and support a coalition of Massachusetts equity advocates from civil rights, disability rights, parent, educator, and education reform communities to demand and secure policy and practice change to increase opportunity and achievement for low-income students and students of color.

This request was to support leadership coaching to monitor and assess the extent to which UIC novice school leaders are infusing elements of social-emotional learning into their practices.

This grant will support leadership coaching and EdD program improvement to assess, monitor, and continue to deepen the extent to which UIC school leaders are strengthening their ability to diagnose and develop the adult SEL capacity in their schools which will, in turn, strengthen the SEL support for students. In addition, scale up our sharing of strategies and learnings with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in a variety of ways that includes but is not limited to: engagement with the Office of Principal Quality, Office of Network Support (ONS), Office of Early Childhood, and most importantly the Executive Director of Social and Emotional Learning in the Office of College and Career Success (OCCS).

The general operating grant will be used to engage and support the work of the Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership (MEEP) – a coalition of civil rights, social justice, and education advocates from across the Commonwealth working together to promote educational equity for historically underserved students in our state’s schools.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support LPI to expand and strengthen its equity-focused, high-quality educator preparation through the Educator Preparatory Laboratory (EdPrepLab) and to extend on-the-ground community engagement on the implementation of community schools and relationship-centered schools in California through the Shared Learning Initiative.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education’s statewide effort to bring communities and schools together as partners to build voice and demand state policy changes to transform Massachusetts’ current education system to move away from a one size fits all and inequitable way of supporting schools and communities.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will launch Cohort 4 of the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) residency program, continue to secure sustainable funding for the model, and begin a process of documentation and dissemination of TESOL’s curriculum and design to support similar residencies.

This is a general operating grant to support the work of The Education Trust-New York.

Rennie Center will continue to partner with Boston Public Schools to build capacity for integrating transformative social-emotional learning into instruction by supporting SEL coaches who work directly with schools to embed SEL practices. Separately, Rennie Center will advance policy reform efforts through Open Opportunity – Massachusetts, a cross-sector network of 40+ organizations.

Building from the base of parents who engaged in fighting for Pre-K-12 funding, Public Policy and Education Fun will continue to work with parent leaders to build statewide demand for universal childcare. This birth-12 agenda will ensure that families and children have the support they need at every stage of development.

With general operating support, NTC will embrace next-level leadership — establishing best practices for school systems, creating transformational change for educators, and accelerating students’ social-emotional and academic growth after the most challenging year in K-12 education.

This general operating grant will support (1) discounts to leaders and teams that want to attend its institutes, (2) increasing its offerings of affinity learning communities, and (3) expanding access to its training offerings through the launch of asynchronous course(s).

This grant supports LiberatED’s general operations. Primarily, the grant will support creating secondary-level content and curricula through its educators’ Fellowship and Youth Leaders Program.

Thjis grant will  put in place strengthened data and measurement systems and improved data collection, management, analytics, and communication tools aligned with NCTR’s Strategic Levers for Equitable Residencies. Developing these data systems will enable NCTR to partner closely with its national network of teacher residencies to support a continuous learning approach in order to improve their support of Black educators and position itself to conduct a quasi-experimental study of the Black Educators Initiative in the fall of 2024.

This grant will strengthen Internationals’ capacity to create schools that close the achievement gap for MLLs. These activities will deepen Internationals’ impact on MLL educator practice within and beyond the network and build the organization’s capacity to advocate for policies and practices leading to more equitable educational opportunities for MLLs.

This grant will allow LEAD Hubs to create a Diverse Leaders Network (DLN) designed to mobilize a statewide collective focused on strategies for recruitment, development, placement, and retention of a leadership pipeline of district and school leaders that reflects the diversity of students in the state.

Given the growing spotlight on SEL and education across the political spectrum and the tremendous need to provide students with academic, social, and emotional supports, CASEL will strengthen strategies at the federal level to ensure SEL in policy and positively affect learning recovery at state, district, school, and classroom levels.

This grant provides general operating support to Advance Illinois for work to ensure a more equitable education system that enables all students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life.

This grant will support leadership coaching to monitor and assess the extent to which UIC novice school leaders are infusing elements of social emotional learning into their practice.

This grant provides general operating support to NYC Leadership Academy.

The general operating grant will be used to engage and support a coalition of Massachusetts equity advocates from civil rights, disability rights, parent, educator, and education reform communities to demand and secure policies that will increase opportunity and achievement for low-income students and students of color.

This grant provides general operating support to Teach Plus.

This grant provides general operating support to Partners in School Innovation.

This grant will support the growth and expansion of the EdPrepLab initiative to support education preparation programs with a focus on deeper learning, equity, and the science of learning and development.

This general operating grant supports the work of Chicago Public Education Fund.

This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education‘s statewide advocacy campaign with the goal of leveraging state policy changes to transform Massachusetts’s current education assessment system.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Bank Street’s TESOL Residency program and continued conversation with early childhood thought leaders toward further development of compensation strategies and policy solutions to move toward pay parity.