Education Innovation Forum Exhibitors
Learn about investment-ready non-profit and for-profit education innovations and high-scoring i3 projects to be featured at the Education Innovation Forum and Expo.
The Waterford Vocabulary Project will use technology to increase the effectiveness of vocabulary instruction for high-need students over a four year period (K-3) by providing a 15- minute daily intelligent multimedia whiteboard lesson delivered by the teacher.
Sesame in Schools
Sesame in Schools is designed to support young children's learning and healthy development utilizing Sesame Street's research-based content and a ""whole-child"" curriculum that emphasizes home engagement, as well as ongoing data-driven practice and professional development to support instruction.
Minnesota Reading Corps, a strategic initiative of ServeMinnesota, demonstrates the unique and powerful role AmeriCorps members can play in ensuring that a student's teacher has both the data they need to direct instruction, as well as the supportive human touch for a child's individualized tutoring to help students before they fail.
California Open Campus Initiative
The California Open Campus Initiative (CAOCI) project will provide access to innovative tools and resources designed to meet the unique learning needs of students, including students with disabilities and/or limited English proficiency in the participating 16 California school districts.
NewSchools was founded in 1998 as a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm with a mission of transforming public education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children -- especially those in underserved communities -- have the opportunity to succeed.
The Center for the Education and Study of Diverse Population's (CESDP) project will improve the educational trajectory for rural secondary students who are predominantly Native American, Hispanic, and ELL and the first in their families to graduate from high school and college.
NHPS TALENT Program
The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has committed to ambitious goals through the New Haven School Change initiative, which aims in five years to close the gap between the performance of NHPS students (over 80% minority and almost 80% qualify for free and reduced lunch) and Connecticut's state-wide average, cut the dropout rate in half, and to ensure that every graduating student has the academi
National Center for Technological Literacy
The National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL), based at the Museum of Science, Boston, develops engineering education programs that engage educators and students in the engineering design process: identify a problem, design a solution, test and improve the design.
Citizen Schools, in partnership with 20-25 middle schools in diverse districts, will implement a bold Expanded Learning Time (ELT) turnaround model that will make schools more fun and more effective -- supporting teachers, engaging families and community resources, and setting high standards for improvement. Read More
Understanding Science is transformative professional development. It brings teachers face to face with their own misconceptions, challenges them to make sense of the science for themselves, and grapple with instructional choices.
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