Updates
Learning Lessons: U.S. Public High Schools and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spring 2020, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access
COVID-19 Resources for Educators: Californians Together
The ILC Handbook: A resource guide for leading sustainable professional development and advancing instructional capacity: Instructional Leadership Corp which is a partnership among the California Teachers Association (CTA), the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), and the National Board Resource Center (NBRC) at Stanford University.
Meeting the Learning Needs of Historically Underserved Students During and After California School Closures: WestEd, May 2020
Restarting and Reinventing School: Learning in the Time of COVID and Beyond: Learning Policy Institute, August 2020
Improving the Quality of Distance and Blended Learning: EdResearch in collaboration with PACE, August 2020
Every School. Every Community. Beyond COVID-19. California Partnership for the Future of Learning’s Need Assessment Findings (April 2020)
No Longer Optional: Why and How Expanded Learning Partnerships are Essential to Achieving Equity in School Reopening and Recovery: Opportunity Institute and Partnership for Children and Youth, August 2020
Continuous Improvement in Schools in the COVID-19 Context: A Summary Brief: PACE, August 2020
Beyond Alignment: Striving for Coherence among Technical Assistance Organizations, Schools, and Districts: Stanford Center for Opportunity and Policy in Education
The California Labor Management Initiative Spotlight, October 2020: This series is a research-based examination of labor-management practices in school systems that have built intentional partnership strategies to improve outcomes for students and staff.
From the Field - Students Experiencing Homelessness, Foster Care and the Juvenile Justice System
State of Crisis – Dismantling Student Homelessness in California: UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, October 2020
Report and Recommendations of the California Advisory Task Force on Alternative Schools: Building knowledge and consensus to improve education outcomes for California’s 350,000 alternative school students: John Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, September 2020
From the Foundation
Foundation Statement
Read moreDear Colleagues: The January 6, 2021 assault on the United States Capitol was a violent attack on our democracy and the rule of law, fueled by a dangerous failure of leadership, conspiracy theories and racist rhetoric. The disproportionately light police response was as troubling as the events themselves. As we process these deeply unsettling events, we know this: More than ever, our children need the capacity to discern fact from
November 2020 Foundation Update
Read moreDear Colleagues, In mid-October, I joined a broad group of leaders in philanthropy in a joint statement expressing our shared concern for our constitutional democracy during a fragile moment, when division and raw feelings are perhaps more on the surface now than they have been in our lifetimes. As we wait for all votes to be counted and digest the tense aftermath
Foundation Update
Read moreWe are inspired and guided by the work of our grantees and partners who are elevating the need to renew the promise of public education and to disrupt longstanding inequities, and to make schools places that foster intellectual curiosity and that center shared human connection by build strong relationships between educators and students – especially for students of color, foster
June 2020 Foundation Update
Read moreDear Colleagues, As I write to you, my heart is breaking. We had been grappling with the disruption of a pandemic of unknown severity and duration. Now we must reckon with deep and historical racism and pain that none of us can ignore. Like you, the Foundation team is profoundly sobered by this pandemic-turned-economic crisis and its yet unknown –
COVID-19 Statement to the Field
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education, the economy, and life as we know it. But even as the immediate horizon is difficult to see, this much is certain: We will get through it.