Envision Education
For Identifying, Cultivating, And Showcasing Exemplary Schools To Advance Deeper Learning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/17/2014
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Term9.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Over the past three years, the Program provided project support to the Deeper Learning Network (DLN), a "network of networks" consisting of ten school reform models totaling some 500 public schools across the country. The DLN has helped make the case for the viability of deeper learning, offering examples of it in action and providing locations for site visits by policymakers. We will provide "tie off" grants to the DLN in order to refocus our funding on research that addresses policy reform needs, development of new assessments of the harder-to-measure deeper learning competencies, and capacity building for educators to understand and make use of student achievement evidence.
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.
