Envision Education
For A Comprehensive System Of Deeper Learning Performance Assessments Enabled By Online Technology
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Amount$590,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Deeper Learning Student Assessment Initiative was created by four partner school systems—Envision Schools, New Tech Network, ConnectEd, and Asia Society—to establish a new paradigm of achievement and accountability for students and teachers. The Initiative seeks to create a comprehensive way to assess deeper learning performance with online technology: the Deeper Learning Student Assessment System. This openly licensed system of instruction and assessment is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and uses performance assessment practice to drive students’ achievement in deeper learning.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.envisionschools.org
Address
111 Myrtle Street, Suite 203, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of leadership transition
Envision Education works with students, schools and districts to improve student outcomes through the use of its portfolio defense approach. Envision also hosts the Deeper Learning Leadership Forum, a cohort-based leadership program that aims to develop, strengthen, and support a group of educational leaders to work at the intersection of equity and design thinking. This organizational effectiveness grant supports the transition of a new executive director.
for the Deeper Learning Leadership Forum
Envision Education hosts the Deeper Learning Leadership Forum, in addition to working with students, schools, and districts to improve student outcomes through the use of its portfolio defense approach. The Leadership Forum is a cohort-based leadership experience that aims to develop, strengthen, and support a group of educational leaders to work at the intersection of equity and design thinking. The grant enables Envision to support education leaders who are knowledgeable of deeper learning and equity issues and positioned to implement necessary changes inside their systems. (Substrategy: Educator Capacity)
for development of a communications strategy
Envision Education operates three high schools and shares its model of education with other schools and districts through its consulting division. With Envision's plan to incorporate staff and projects that are currently part of the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE), this OE grant will enable them to engage a consultant to develop a strategic communications plan that captures their new combined body of work.
