NewSchools Venture Fund
For The Design Of An Open Formative Assessment Item Bank
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/13/2010
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Term9.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
NewSchools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit venture philanthropy firm that seeks to transform public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs. During a decade of learning from school systems and high performing charter management organizations, NSVF observed that the best operators were struggling to use manually-built systems to keep up with their rapid growth and ambitious achievement goals. The Academic Systems Initiative (ASI) was launched in 2008 to increase the effectiveness of teachers and instructional leaders by developing a new generation of high-quality "academic systems"—technology, content, and service. These tools will enable teachers and schools to use student-level data in rigorous cycles of inquiry so they can provide targeted and highly-effective educational experiences for each child and enable effective management and development of this kind of instruction at scale. This grant is to support a planning and design phase for and Open Item Assessment Bank platform that will establish scalable Open formative assessments to evaluate and promote Deeper Learning.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newschools.org
Address
1616 Franklin St. 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA, 94602, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for sponsorship of the 25th anniversary celebration
New Schools Venture Fund has, since 1998, provided support for innovative education ventures, including investments in innovative public schools, diverse leaders, and education technology. This grant supports their 25th anniversary celebration. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)
for the design of an open formative assessment platform
New Schools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit philanthropic venture that seeks to transform public education. In 2008, the Fund launched the Academic Systems Initiative to increase the effectiveness of teachers and instructional leaders by developing a new generation of high-quality "academic systems" encompassing technology, content, and service. These tools will enable teachers and schools to use student data to target each child’s educational experience. They also will enable this kind of instruction to be managed and developed at scale. This tie-off grant would support the completion of a business and operating plan for an Open Item Assessment Bank platform, which will provide scalable formative assessments to evaluate and promote deeper learning.
