Coaching for Change (C4C)

Coaching for Change (C4C)

Coaching for Change helps at-risk high school students stay in school, graduate on time and pursue a meaningful post-secondary program. C4C teaches young people to become leaders by coaching after school youth sports programs, organizing school-wide athletics tournaments, and running youth sports clinics.  C4C’s primary program, the Coach Leadership Academy (CLA), is a coaching apprenticeship program where high school students learn organizational and study skills from local college students.  The high school students are then able to apply these skills and build their self-confidence by coaching and tutoring at their local elementary or middle schools.  High school students participate in a 10-15 week program for two hours per day, four days a week after school, each semester.  C4C is in the early stages of developing its model and programs with pilots currently running in the cities of Brockton and New Bedford. Coaching for Change Website Back to All SGP...
The Achievement Network (ANet)

The Achievement Network (ANet)

The Achievement Network’s mission is to work alongside school leadership teams to strengthen their school-wide practice and culture of using learning standards and achievement data to get breakthrough results for students in underserved communities. ANet partners with teachers and school leaders to boost student learning with great teaching that is grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on successful practices of educators across the country. ANet also works closely with school district and charter management organization leaders to turn best practices into systemic improvements in teaching and learning.  ANet works with over 500 schools and 170,000 students in ten geographic networks. Achievement Network Website Back to All SGP...
The Boston Compact

The Boston Compact

The Boston Compact brings district, charter and Catholic school educators together in order to provide equitable access to high-performing schools and excellent instruction to all students.  The Compact seeks to address three barriers to student achievement: opportunity and achievement gaps, shortage of school quality, and lack of family-friendly, equitable systems.  A particular focus of the compact over the next three years is to develop family-friendly, equitable systems to access high quality schools close-to-home, such as a unified enrollment system, across the charter and district sectors. The Boston Compact Website Back to All SGP...
The Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs)

The Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs)

EDLab’s mission is to provide reliable scientific evidence to support impactful decisions in education in the United States, particularly the education of minority students and students living in poverty. In 2008, Dr. Roland Fryer, a celebrated young economist at Harvard, founded The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard (EdLabs). What sets EdLabs apart is the determination to drill down and discover what really works and then determine whether and how these answers can be applied in large urban district settings where most low-income children are educated. As an innovation lab, EdLabs performs rigorous research to understand the underlying causes of the achievement gap (in order to inform potential solutions), evaluates others’ work in order to identify high impact interventions, and designs and implements experiments to test new approaches.  Putting academic research into practice to create a learning feedback loop makes Dr. Fryer’s work very different from a traditional approach to educational evaluation. The Education Innovation Laboratory Website Website Back to All SGP...
Boston Public Schools (BPS)

Boston Public Schools (BPS)

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) has won national recognition for its success improving instruction and assessment, especially at the elementary level. Even with this success, the achievement gap is too large, drop‐out rates too high, special education results too low and school performance too uneven to declare victory. Recognizing this, Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson has outlined ambitious student performance goals and key initiatives to meet them through the “Acceleration Agenda”. SGP has partnered with other local funders to support an in-depth year long strategic planning process to help make this vision a reality. BPS Website Back to All SGP Completed...