Envision Education
For The Bay Area Performance Assessment Network
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Amount$812,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The mission of the four Envision Education schools is to transform the lives of students, especially those who will be the first in their families to attend college, by preparing them for success in college and life. This approach integrates arts and technology into core subjects, offers students real-world experience in workplaces, and uses a uniquely rigorous assessment system focused on deeper learning. More than 90 percent of Envision high school graduates go on to attend either two- or four-year colleges, compared with just 40 percent of all California high school graduates. Hewlett Foundation support would enable the assessment group, Envision Learning Partners, to expand and deepen its work via the Bay Area Performance Assessment Network. The key educational strategy of this partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education is to increase the acceptance and implementation of performance assessment in a growing number of schools in the region.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.envisionschools.org
Address
111 Myrtle Street, Suite 203, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Grants to this Grantee
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)
