EL Education
For General Operating Support
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The national school network Expeditionary Learning, one of our leading Deeper Learning exemplars, has recently seen demand for its services expand enormously. It has grown from a small network of 100 schools to a major curriculum and professional development organization serving the state and city of New York, Delaware, Newark, and several other major districts and states. The network is now facing the challenge of rapidly building its internal capacity to deliver these services. This general operating support grant would provide flexible funds to meet this challenge and take advantage of Expeditionary Learning’s growth opportunity.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.eleducation.org
Address
247 West 35th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for Content Stance development communications and wellness
EL Education develops deeper learning school environments committed to meaningful, adventurous, and challenging work and fosters an expanded view of achievement that focuses on student character, high-quality work, and mastery of knowledge and skills. Through its national school network, as well as its district and school literacy partnerships, EL Education supports students and educators and facilitates the implementation of high-quality educational materials (including an open educational resource English Language Arts curriculum). EL Education continues to develop approaches to improve its instructional model, increase its capacity to expand impactful professional learning opportunities for educators, and scale its reach and impact on student achievement. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the organization with developing and codifying a set of robust, coherent and fully vetted content “stances†that will codify into one unifying document the organization’s most important positions on educational equity, teaching and learning that will then be used to ensure consistency in messaging when engaging various internal and external stakeholders. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose. (Sub-strategy: Content, Tools and Services)
for general operating support
EL Education develops deeper learning school environments committed to meaningful, challenging work and fosters an expanded view of achievement that focuses on student character, high-quality work, and mastery of knowledge and skills. Through its national school network as well as district and school literacy partnerships, EL Education supports students and teachers and facilitates the implementation of high-quality educational materials (including an OER English language arts curriculum). EL Education will continue to develop approaches to improve its instructional model, increase capacity to expand professional learning strategies, and scale its reach and impact on student achievement. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for support of organizational diversity, equity and inclusion capacity to advance educational equity
EL Education is a national school support network that develops K-12 curricula based on open educational resources and aligned with deeper learning. This organizational effectiveness grant supports their internal work to deepen awareness, knowledge, skill, and capacity about educational equity. Helping our grantees become more aware, prepared and competent around internal issues of equity will ensure that their field-focused work - and the field of education more broadly - reflects the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
