To support a new network of politically moderate advocates and influencers who will coalesce around a policy agenda that prioritizes a student-centered approach to economic mobility
To support Launching Equitable and Accelerated Pathways (LEAP) in providing technical assistance to up to 13 state teams to design and launch equitable new pathways solutions
To advocate for an education system designed to deliver the experiences, pathways and tools for young people to learn how to live self-determined lives of passion and purpose
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 incubate 40 diverse entrepreneurs to develop and launch education ventures through the Camelback Fellowship and to convene communications and thought leaders and influential funding partners at the Guardian Summit
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 support a pilot cohort of school districts to create a competency-based assessment system
2022
Education
$299,400
President and Fellows of Harvard College
To support a suite of studies on long-term drivers of student achievement both within schools and beyond the classroom, including research on social capital, civic outcomes, drivers of long-term increases in test scores and charters
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