Collective leadership: A catalyst for school improvement
By: Jonathan Eckert and Grant Morgan, Baylor University
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Aug. 1, 2023
Arnold Ventures’ (AV) Evidence-Based Policy team invites grant applications to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of social programs in any area of U.S. policy in which:
(i) AV will fund the RCT, and government or another entity will fund the program’s delivery; and
(ii) The RCT meets the additional selection criteria set out below.
Equity
Arnold Ventures (AV) is a nonpartisan philanthropy whose core mission is to invest in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. The Higher Education initiative seeks to identify and scale effective practices that improve student success and address equity gaps in higher education. Even as access to higher education has significantly expanded, we still struggle to help students complete their credentials and secure a strong return on their investments.
Evidence is essential to innovation and we are committed to promoting smart, evidence-led investing.
Research plays a central role: as a source of innovative ideas, and as a tool for assessing their impact, cost-effectiveness and scalability. We are very interested in supporting policy reforms that could improve the equity or efficiency of public sector performance. We support investments in public, private and non-profit activities, using all available financial instruments.
Arnold Ventures (AV) is a nonpartisan philanthropy whose core mission is to invest in evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. This Request for Proposals—a joint effort of AV’s Criminal Justice and Evidence-Based Policy initiatives—seeks grant applications to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of criminal justice programs and practices (“interventions”) in the United States that fall into one of three tiers:
Educators in nearly 50 schools in Arizona are now teaching in teams, a model that aspires to improve outcomes for learners and experiences for teachers. Soon, a new wave of educators in California schools will join them thanks to a grant from Silicon Schools Fund that connects California schools to national resources via an educational nonprofit.
Three Colorado organizations — the Colorado Department of Education, the Public Education & Business Coalition and South Central Board of Cooperative Education Services — have teamed up with Arizona State University to help Colorado schools build team-based school staffing models that make the job of teaching more appealing and sustainable, support equity and improve learning outcomes in Col
Turnaround for Children is now the Center for Whole-Child Education, a part of Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation.