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Parent, Teacher, Coach, Organizer: Domari Dickinson’s Many Roles
Domari Dickinson, like other parents across the country, is taking on multiple roles during the pandemic to help expand opportunities for every learner.
Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerates Innovation for Pair of Atlanta Educators
Until March 2020, Mikala Streeter served solely as the founding principal of The LIFE School, a project-based independent high school in downtown Atlanta. Then the pandemic hit, and calls started coming in from her high school students’ families. Could Streeter do...
Baltimore Program Utilizes Dirt Bike Culture to Teach STEM-Related Skills
With B-360, Baltimore native Brittany Young has brought an outside-the-box idea to the out-of-system learning space.
DELTIC Prep Creates Community, Opportunities for Homeschool Families
For more than 10 years, homeschooling for families near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border has not just happened at home. Thanks to DELTIC Prep, a homeschool co-op, children learn at home Monday-Thursday and then come together on Fridays for an assortment of...
In Charlottesville, International Neighbors Helps Make Sure All Students Receive the Support They Need
The coronavirus pandemic has created myriad issues for schools, from determining the right conditions for in-person learning to developing student and staff schedules to ramping up technological capabilities and more. In Charlottesville, Virginia, teachers and area...
How Engaged Detroit is Helping Students and Families #MeetTheMoment
With support from the National Parents Union, a Meet the Moment grant partner, Bradley launched Engaged Detroit, a homeschool co-op. The co-op is part of a network started specifically to serve Black families in response to the pandemic and the continued challenges in Detroit Public Schools, where 82 percent of students are African-American and just 6.5 percent of sixth-graders are doing math on grade level.
RELEASE: New Microschooling Option for Nevada Families Selected in Education Fund’s Inaugural Round
Grant for MicroschoolingNV helps Meet the Moment during pandemic, educational crisis The VELA Education Fund announced today that MicroschoolingNV, an initiative of Nevada Action for School Options, will receive a grant of up to $150,000 through the Meet the Moment...
RELEASE: New VELA Education Fund Launches with $1M Meet the Moment Grant Program
VELA Education Fund will support innovative, out-of-system, student-centric opportunities Meet the Moment grant program provides fast grants in response to COVID learning disruptions With millions of students facing school disruptions this fall, the newly launched...