Effective School Practices to Support the Whole Child
Solicitation Title: Effective School Practices to Support the Whole Child
Funding Amount: $300,000 to $750,000
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/effective-school-practices-to-support-the-whole-child/
Overview
<p>At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), we are committed to ensuring every young person enters adulthood with the skills and abilities they need to reach their full potential — and each teacher is equipped with the mindsets, tools and practices they need to support their students’ learning and development.<br>We believe this starts with taking an evidence-based, ‘whole child’ approach to learning — in short, expanding the definition of student success beyond academics to include the identity, physical, mental, cognitive, social and emotional development of students. We support this aim by providing teachers the tools, practices and resources they need to meet the unique needs of each student in the classroom, based on the latest research about how students develop and learn.</p> <p>By leveraging what we know from the science of learning and human development across multiple areas (academic, social, emotional, identity, cognitive, mental and physical health), we have an opportunity to develop new school practices grounded in science. We have been thinking a lot about how to help refine and share the great work of schools and organizations who are focused on both helping students build academic skills and develop competencies beyond academics.</p> <p>This Request For Applications (RFA) builds on the work that we have been supporting over the last two years in partnership with the Science of Learning and Development initiative and the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social Emotional & Academic Development, as well as through child development research, such as the Promise of Adolescence paper published by the National Academy of Sciences. Additional information, as well as summaries of these reports on these resources can be found in our summary — ‘An Overview of the Research We Ground In.’ We want to support schools to leverage the science to continue to advance their best practices.</p> <p>Our goal for this funding opportunity aims to:<br>1. Identify and improve school practices by leveraging the science of learning and human development, so that more teachers and schools have access to resources that help students build academic skills as well as competencies beyond academics; and<br>2. Leverage various ways to integrate research and practice to accelerate the application of adolescent development knowledge to the design and practice of learning environments.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>The grant recipients will be a part of a foundational cohort focused on practice and will be expected to travel to two in-person meetings annually during the term of the grant, for which travel and expenses will be reimbursed by CZI (and are not to be included as a part of the project budget). Awarded grantees will also be invited to participate in regular webinars and conference calls focused on problems of practice they are facing. Grantees will also be invited to join a peer collaborative, where they can build connections across the field.</p> Other Information:<p>The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications from US-based teams of schools, support organizations, and/or researchers who want to apply the science of human development to improve existing school-based practices that develop self direction and curiosity, specifically in adolescents (ages 11-18 years old). These practices may address foundational and precursory competencies, skills and mindsets, or “building blocks” (as theorized by frameworks such as Building Blocks for Learning), specifically for adolescents (ages 11-18 years old).</p> <p>This grant opportunity is intended to support specific projects that will:<br>• Identify a specific school-based practice;<br>• Use the science of learning and human development to refine and iterate the practice;<br>• Collect data to measure how the practice impacts the intended competencies, skills and mindsets; and<br>• Use data collected to improve the practice’s design.</p> <p>This grant opportunity is not intended for general operating support, program implementation, or systems for scaling.</p>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 653