Sentences with phrase «charter school growth fund»

The national advisory team, that includes Julia Freeland (Christensen Institute), Eduardo Briceño (Mindset Works), Sasha Barab (School for the Future of Innovation in Society / Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University / Center for Games and Impact), Tony Lewis (Donnell - Kay Foundation) and Alex Hernandez (Charter School Growth Fund), engaged in a thoughtful conversation that explored insights around measuring social and emotional learning and the importance of student outlets for articulating ownership of growth.

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has a history of supporting charter schools, hoping to «increase the number of academically strong seats in charter networks that serve students of color and low - income populations» («Charter School Growth Fund»).

In November, we partnered with Kathy Hamel at Charter School Growth Fund, Sajan George at Matchbook Learning, Paige McLean at Achievement First Charter Network Accelerator, and Ben Rayer to bring together more than 30 operators who have either committed to restarting struggling schools or are interested in exploring the opportunity.

The Broad Foundation grant, which comes on the heels of $ 6 million in support from the Charter School Growth Fund, will help Rocketship expand its network of schools nationwide.

Note: my non-profit, the Charter School Growth Fund, is a philanthropic investor in Summit Public Schools, Mastery Charter Schools, Aspire Public Schools and KIPP LA.

In 2000, the foundation helped launch the Charter School Growth Fund, which offers start - up and facilities financing, multiyear program grants, technical and other supports to a select number of charter networks each year.

He also led the field research for Charter School Growth Fund and the Clay Christensen Institute for the 2014 publication, «Schools and Software: What's Now, What's Next».

In addition to the Walton Family Foundation, she currently serves on the boards of The Aspen Institute, Charter School Growth Fund, EdVoice, and Stanford University Graduate School of Education.

Alex Hernandez (@thinkschools) is an EdSurge columnist and a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit that supports the growth of the nation's best public charter schools.

Alex Hernandez, a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund, led our first group discussion of a blended learning school model, First Line Schools based in New Orleans.

Kevin has been CEO and President of Charter School Growth Fund since 2009.

All attendees will receive a copy of the Charter School Growth Fund's Student Enrollment Playbook.

Last week, Michael Petrilli, CEO of the D.C. - based Fordham Institute, and Eric Chan, a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund, were a few of the latest to drop in on Detroit.

At the Charter School Growth Fund we're increasingly doing more and more convenings around specific topics.

Replicating Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High - Performing Charter Schools and Networks, a new report by Public Impact for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and the Charter School Growth Fund, argues that these changes could pave the way for a dramatic shift in K — 12 quality, creating excellent opportunities for a million more students over the next decade.

Following Stanford's release of the study, the Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) shared this statement, «Families just want good schools for their kids.

Prior to STRIVE, Alesha was the senior director of talent for the Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), a national nonprofit that identifies the country's best charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact.

By 2012, Aspire had secured an additional $ 400,000 from the Charter School Growth Fund to bring blended learning to another school: Titan.

As a growing network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 schools.

As a growing, intentionally diverse network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades K - 11.

That created an environment for the Tennessee Charter School Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashville.

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operators.

Hear from our founder and co-director, Jon Clark, as well as representatives from the Charter School Growth Fund, and Alex Finkelstein, our newest board member.

If you are interested in learning more about the Director of School Operations role, tune in to this podcast, recently published by the Charter School Growth Fund.

As a cohort, these schools have also received an additional $ 1.7 million in total grant support from the Charter School Growth Fund, Louis Calder Foundation, New School Venture Fund and 4.0 Schools.

In addition to its work with KIPP, the Fisher Fund is a longtime philanthropic supporter of the California Charter Schools Association and the Charter School Growth Fund, which supports the expansion of high - performing charter school networks.

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As the Charter School Growth Fund's Alex Hernandez writes, the shift to online learning will produce a «fire hose of real - time student data.»

He donated to a nonprofit, the Charter School Growth Fund, which invested in DreamBox.

The Charter School Growth Fund, seeded by the Pisces and Walton foundations, among others, aims to create 100,000 seats in high - performing charter schools by 2015.

Although there are plenty of great charters with only one or two schools, a large CMO will find it easier to attract top talent and then aggregate that talent, said Kevin Hall, CEO of the Charter School Growth Fund.

The Charter School Growth Fund invests in CMOs that operate networks of high - quality charter schools, providing grant and loan financing packages that enable these organizations to expand their capacity to serve more low - income and minority students.

In this forum, Robin Lake of the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) CEO Kevin Hall discuss what we know about the strengths and frailties of CMOs, what the future holds, and what promising alternatives might be.

Similarly, systematic efforts to cultivate and develop quality ideas and organizations focused on elementary, secondary, and possibly even postsecondary education, perhaps modeled on the Charter School Growth Fund or NewSchools Venture Fund, must be created.

Founders of a public academy will tread the same terrain — without an existing network of support such as that provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program, the NewSchools Venture Fund, or the Charter School Growth Fund.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other public schools.»

Perhaps the bigger reason, though, is what Alex Hernandez, a partner in the Charter School Growth Fund, called «a superclear mission.»

Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Major funders like the Charter School Growth Fund and NewSchools Venture Fund are helping other high - performing charters expand as well.

(These figures appear consistent with an unpublished analysis conducted by the Charter School Growth Fund on the CMOs it has supported.)

Since then, NewSchools has helped launch and grow many more CMOs, mostly in California, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Working alongside NewSchools have been national funders like the Walton Family Foundation, the Fisher Fund, the Robertson Foundation, the Dell Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Charter School Growth Fund (see «The $ 500 Million Question,» forum, Winter 2011).

In particular, EdSurge with the Charter School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.»

NewSchools Venture Fund, the Charter School Growth Fund, and other individual foundations are focusing a great deal of attention on large states.

Benjamin Riley, founder of Deans for Impact, makes the case for an abundance of caution, while Alex Hernandez, a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, supports continued efforts to get personalization right.

Author Bio: Alex Hernandez is a partner and leads the «next - generation» learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund.

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

Its top recipient is the Charter School Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school nationwide.

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As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

Astorino has said he supports the growth of charter schools in New York and blames Cuomo for the failure of a tax credit proposal that would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.