TRANSFORM EDUCATION FOCUS AREA

KEY RESULTS & FUNDABLE ACTIVITIES

Education reform that enables all young people to learn and thrive is essential to individual well-being and regional prosperity. Our investments in this area focus on three Key Results through specific fundable activities:

1) Student Success
High quality schooling should be the norm for all young people.  

Key Result: Children are ready to enter school, stay on grade level, and graduate prepared to thrive in their post-secondary education/vocation.

Fundable activities:

• Efforts to support early childhood education policy change, systems reform, implementation of Quality Rating Improvement Systems (QRIS), or specific constituent-based activities and approaches for school readiness for low-income and children of color in P-K education.
• Evidence-based practices and innovative approaches that are showing effectiveness in reducing educational disparities and increasing student achievement for students of color in grades 1-12.
  
• Activities that prepare high school students to thrive in post-secondary education.
• Research and advocacy organizations that encourage policy and systemic improvements in P-12.

2) Effective Public Education

A sound, equitable education system is at the core of our democracy and the promise of equal opportunity.

Key Result: Public schools systems exist where children are assured academic success.

Fundable activities:

• Support the implementation of the Minneapolis Public School’s strategic plan.
• Support efforts for policy change, and school systems reform to improve teacher quality and quality education for all students, especially students of color.

3) Community and Parent Engagement
Parent engagement and community support are critical to improving success for individual students and the quality of educational systems.

Key result: Parents, communities, and school systems work together toward shared goals.

Fundable activities:

• Programs that build parent leadership and help parents advocate on behalf of their children in educational systems to advance educational equity.
• Community-based initiatives that address achievement gaps in education, and advocate for reform and policy change.
  

Amy Hertel

Director of Impact Strategy
Transforming Education
(612) 672-3863
ahertel@mplsfoundation.org