PBLWorks
For Support Of Organizational Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Capacity To Advance Educational Equity
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/25/2017
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Buck Institute for Education prepares students for success in college, career, and life by helping teachers, schools, and districts adopt project-based 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.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bie.org
Address
3 Hamilton Landing Suite 220, Novato, CA, 94949, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity centered leadership development program
PBLWorks builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school system leaders to design, implement, and facilitate impactful and equitable project-based learning (PBL), a deeper learning instructional approach in which students work collaboratively to investigate rigorous, authentic, and complex challenges aligned to grade level and subject area standards. This grant is an organizational effectiveness grant that will support the development of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) senior leadership development pathways program. (Sub-strategy: Content Tools and Services)
for designing a performance assessment system and content platform for OER PBL curricular units
PBLWorks builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school system leaders to design, implement, and facilitate project-based learning (PBL), an instructional approach in which students work collaboratively to investigate rigorous, authentic, and complex challenges aligned to grade level and subject area standards. To achieve this, PBLWorks is designing and delivering Open Educational Resource (OER) PBL units, paired with professional development and enabled by an online platform. This grant supports strategic planning and the generation of an aligned performance assessment system for these PBL units. (Substrategy: Content Tools and Services)
for business planning and organizational redesign
PBLWorks (Buck Institute for Education) builds capacity among teachers, school leaders, and school systems to design, implement, and facilitate project-based learning, an instructional approach in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate an authentic, complex challenge. This grant will support strategic planning and analyses of business, financial, and organizational implications to create and share project-based learning curricula.
