To organize and host a national convening to highlight and share promising practices and common pain points with implementing new competency-based and student-centered assessment systems
To explore how communities and states can create ecosystems where learning does not just happen at school and develop a strategy to raise, organize and direct the kind of significant funding that will be necessary to fund new ways of organizing, supporting and credentialing learning
To implement a subgrants program to support its Protecting Our Dignity coalition's vision for coordinated youth leadership, youth wellness and student enrichment activities
2022
Education
$350,000
Council of Chief State School Officers
To build state and district capacity to adopt and advance student-centered and personalized learning models
To support a program that integrates social and mental health into schools that lead to lifelong learning
2022
Education
$500,000
International Society for Technology in Education
To support a cohort of at least three school districts to create and use new resources that will ensure they are purchasing digital assessments that meet the needs of teachers and students
2022
Education
$353,274
Northeastern University
To help a cohort of six WFF grantee organizations meaningfully solicit and apply the input of users (e.g., parents, educators, students) to their program and policy design
2022
Education
$499,736
Chalkbeat, Inc.
To support the continued national and regional news coverage on topics impacting parents, students and educators
To support programming work to increase opportunities for Black youth and build awareness of promising practices to increase social and economic mobility
2022
Education
$500,000
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research, Inc.
To launch the Cooney Learning Lab, which will allow education product developers to co-design new products directly with youth, helping ensure these products meet their needs and ultimately improve their learning outcomes
2022
Education
$260,000
Driving Force Group, Inc.
To subgrant to awardees of an RFP seeking to identify community engagement innovators and potential partners for innovation across the country
To continue providing technical assistance to Birmingham, Charleston and Washington, DC, as they develop plans to support the priorities and strategies outlined in the applications for the federal Good Jobs Challenge (GJC)
To develop the framework, network, and materials necessary to launch a fall 2022 Texas marketing campaign to better connect youth with careers that will connect their core purpose, talents and passions
2022
Education
$336,000
United States Department of Education
To support a prize competition to identify cost-effective, scalable interventions to accelerate student learning for the nation's lowest-performing students
