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As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week in 2021, we reflect on educators' roles pre-COVID, and three themes that have emerged over the past year that we see continuing in a post-pandemic world.
In a time of decreased budgets and increased need, education funders play a critical role in encouraging nonprofit leaders to stay focused on impact. This piece offers actionable ways foundations and funders can support nonprofits in additon to funding, and spotlights two organizations who have been nimble and responsive during COVID.
Over the past year, the Innovative Schools portfolio has increased its confidence in the ability of tech-enabled interventions to meet and measurably impact ever-growing needs for students across the country. Read more about our redefined strategy, and why we're focusing on leveraging technology to create and support student-centered, evidence-based K-9 learning solutions.
A look back on what we've seen and learned as a Foundation over the past 12 months, with a particular emphasis on the work our grantees have done to ensure that children, families, and educators had as much support as possible given the barriers to learning in 2020.
We caught up with leaders from FIRST, Learn Fresh, and Girlstart—three leading out-of-school STEM organizations—to find out how 2020 has affected their operations, plans, and future outlook.
When a school has high-quality working conditions like fair expectations and clear communication, teachers do better, even during challenging times.
In this op-ed, our Foundation's Vice President, Anu Malipatil, spotlights the incredible innovation our grantees have shown within the constraints of the coronavirus pandemic. Much of this innovation incorporates technology, something that was previously a nice-to-have and is now a necessity.
A strong family-school relationship is essential this year. We spotlight four grantees whose proven experience in connecting families with educators makes them uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful impact for children in an especially difficult time.
Parent coaching takes many different forms, but we’ve found two recurring themes that open the doors of possibility for parents and children.
In response to COVID-19 and grantee feedback, we updated our grantmaking to be more transparent and streamlined, focusing on understanding and meeting community needs more than ever before.