The document summarizes interviews with grantmakers about a convening with state and local education leaders. Key points include:
Grantmakers appreciated the opportunity to engage directly with government officials they rarely interact with. There was enthusiasm for education reform despite state budget crises. Future convenings should have more consistent high-level participation from state teams and define specific challenges and outcomes. Grantmakers and officials need to be clear about their priorities and be willing to provide political cover for each other.
Federal Funding for Mentoring: Past, Present & Future presented by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota; April 6, 2011; features panelist Joellen Gonder-Spacek. Part of monthly Quality In Action webinar series.
Federal Funding for Mentoring: Past, Present & Future presented by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota; April 6, 2011; features panelist Joellen Gonder-Spacek. Part of monthly Quality In Action webinar series.
Making Vibrant Connections: Higher Education and the Business CommunityMelissa DeFreest
On June 20th, a panel of distinguished higher education leaders highlighted the resources they have available to Somerset County’s business community for student engagement, program support and strategic research.
The panel includes representatives from Raritan Valley Community College, Rutgers University, NJIT and Princeton
University.
Understanding the Public Policy Landscape: Lessons From a Retrospective Evalu...Innovation Network
These slides accompanied a presentation at the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in October 2013 in Washington, DC.
Innovation Network evaluators Veena Pankaj and Kat Athanasiades discussed how the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy was used in a retrospective evaluation of a large scale philanthropic public policy campaign. The framework helped to identify and plot grantee strategies across two dimensions - target audience(s) and desired outcomes. Using bubble charts to illustrate the strategic focus of each grantee, the evaluation team was able to recognize trends among the grantee partners, identify gaps and provide an aggregate overview of the types of strategies being supported. Presenters highlighted how the framework was used in selecting and developing appropriate data collection methodologies based on the strategic focus of the grantees. These methodologies were created to specifically correspond to the outcome areas and target audience(s) highlighted by the framework. Finally, the presenters reflected on lessons learns and share insights for improving advocacy evaluation at the portfolio level.
The presentation's handout is available here: http://www.innonet.org/resources/node/728
Innovation Network is a nonprofit evaluation, research, and consulting firm. We provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results. To learn more, visit www.innonet.org.
Transforming Health Systems grants tackled four health systems concerns: stewardship and management, financing, information systems, and universal health care (UHC) policy and advocacy. In each target country, the grants provided transformative support to address key challenges.
Bangladesh faced serious constraints in its health sector workforce and weak health information systems. Thirty one grants helped provide training for health care professionals, assess and improve health information systems, and introduce UHC concepts to health sector stakeholders. The interventions increased awareness and commitment to UHC, contributed to improved and standardized medical education, and aided the development of integrated health information systems.
Ghana sought to build public sector capacity to steward and manage its mixed public-private health system. The program partnered with the International Finance Corporation, which assessed the private health sector. Thirteen grants subsequently sought to build capacity within the private sector unit in the Ministry of Health and to create a platform to facilitate engagement with the private sector. The interventions strengthened public sector capacity, increased policy dialogue around UHC, and strengthened the country’s National Health Insurance Scheme.
Rwanda’s health system reforms have sought to increase health service use, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures, and improve health indicators. Eleven grants focused particularly on building eHealth and technology platforms. The grants resulted in improved capacity to develop and implement sustainable eHealth solutions, as well as creation of a custom electronic medical records system and a Health Enterprise Architecture. Most grants included plans for sustainability beyond the life of the grant.
Vietnam wanted to find ways to expand coverage, improve financial protection, and reduce inequality, particularly through improving its provider payment system. Sixteen grants funded research to support reforms and design and test alternative capitation methods. The initiative built capacity in academic and research institutions, strengthened government capacity in health system management and planning, increased support for payment reform, and generated evidence to shape universal health insurance policies.
Making Vibrant Connections: Higher Education and the Business CommunityMelissa DeFreest
On June 20th, a panel of distinguished higher education leaders highlighted the resources they have available to Somerset County’s business community for student engagement, program support and strategic research.
The panel includes representatives from Raritan Valley Community College, Rutgers University, NJIT and Princeton
University.
Understanding the Public Policy Landscape: Lessons From a Retrospective Evalu...Innovation Network
These slides accompanied a presentation at the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in October 2013 in Washington, DC.
Innovation Network evaluators Veena Pankaj and Kat Athanasiades discussed how the Framework for Public Policy Advocacy was used in a retrospective evaluation of a large scale philanthropic public policy campaign. The framework helped to identify and plot grantee strategies across two dimensions - target audience(s) and desired outcomes. Using bubble charts to illustrate the strategic focus of each grantee, the evaluation team was able to recognize trends among the grantee partners, identify gaps and provide an aggregate overview of the types of strategies being supported. Presenters highlighted how the framework was used in selecting and developing appropriate data collection methodologies based on the strategic focus of the grantees. These methodologies were created to specifically correspond to the outcome areas and target audience(s) highlighted by the framework. Finally, the presenters reflected on lessons learns and share insights for improving advocacy evaluation at the portfolio level.
The presentation's handout is available here: http://www.innonet.org/resources/node/728
Innovation Network is a nonprofit evaluation, research, and consulting firm. We provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results. To learn more, visit www.innonet.org.
Transforming Health Systems grants tackled four health systems concerns: stewardship and management, financing, information systems, and universal health care (UHC) policy and advocacy. In each target country, the grants provided transformative support to address key challenges.
Bangladesh faced serious constraints in its health sector workforce and weak health information systems. Thirty one grants helped provide training for health care professionals, assess and improve health information systems, and introduce UHC concepts to health sector stakeholders. The interventions increased awareness and commitment to UHC, contributed to improved and standardized medical education, and aided the development of integrated health information systems.
Ghana sought to build public sector capacity to steward and manage its mixed public-private health system. The program partnered with the International Finance Corporation, which assessed the private health sector. Thirteen grants subsequently sought to build capacity within the private sector unit in the Ministry of Health and to create a platform to facilitate engagement with the private sector. The interventions strengthened public sector capacity, increased policy dialogue around UHC, and strengthened the country’s National Health Insurance Scheme.
Rwanda’s health system reforms have sought to increase health service use, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures, and improve health indicators. Eleven grants focused particularly on building eHealth and technology platforms. The grants resulted in improved capacity to develop and implement sustainable eHealth solutions, as well as creation of a custom electronic medical records system and a Health Enterprise Architecture. Most grants included plans for sustainability beyond the life of the grant.
Vietnam wanted to find ways to expand coverage, improve financial protection, and reduce inequality, particularly through improving its provider payment system. Sixteen grants funded research to support reforms and design and test alternative capitation methods. The initiative built capacity in academic and research institutions, strengthened government capacity in health system management and planning, increased support for payment reform, and generated evidence to shape universal health insurance policies.
Educational Leaders Must Strive To Increase Resources Available For Their Sch...RajaDastan
Contemporary educational leaders function in complex local contexts. They must cope not only with daily challenges within schools but also with problems originating beyond schools, like staffing shortages, problematic school boards, and budgetary constraints. There are some emerging patterns and features of these complex contexts that educational leaders should recognize. Educational leaders face a political terrain marked by contests at all levels over resources and over the direction of public education.
The Expansion of School-Community Partnershipsnoblex1
Across the country, states and communities are mobilizing to focus attention on young children and families, and many benefits could accrue from an integration of community–school efforts with early childhood initiatives. Ample evidence from research supports such integration.
Source: https://ebookscheaper.com/2021/02/10/the-expansion-of-school-community-partnerships/
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Vera Discussion:
This was a really interesting class and writing policy much more complicated than I had ever dreamed. With each assignment, we learned that every move and the intended outcome had a consequence. Some were good and others not as positive. Below are some of my learning moments. If I am in a position to write a higher education policy, I now know that I’ll need a lot of research, a solid plan, and a committee with representatives from all stakeholders.
1. Higher education is vital to the community and a college policy can affect change in a town or region. A downturn in enrollment, modification in coursework, or an infrastructure upgrade will be felt in the surrounding area.
2. State and Federal funding must be considered in the policy. Crafting policy to benefit the institution must not damage the ability to obtain funding. Monies to the college come from many sources but governmental funding is vital.
3. Staffing and operations must be thought through carefully. If enrollment or courses change it affects the faculty and staff. When faced with the loss of employment or salary changes a policy can become unpopular rapidly.
4. Change must be monitored and measured. The policy may seem successful but there are so many potential hurdles that crop up along the way.
5. The ability to adapt, flex, and make modifications if important to any new plan. Things will not go exactly as planned. Be prepared for some failures, fix them, and move on with the outcomes that do work.
As I look at the greater picture of higher education, I think tuition, access, and retention continue to be issues that need resolution. The high student debt cannot continue. An emphasis on quality college and pathways to higher education access for all has long been our countries goal but we are not accomplishing that currently (Mitchell & Gauner, 2020). The online and distance learning scenario has become even more necessary over this last year. This shift has accelerated the need for and use of virtual platforms. While schools may go back to a more normal pace in the coming months, many things will change and technology will improve in these areas (Fuscaldo, 2019).
I believe change will come but I’m not sure in what form. More government support for higher education seems unlikely soon, and the move towards performance-based funding is underway. While this scheme’s success is not yet known, the political environment makes it very popular. It may drive institutions’ towards changing admissions criteria to be even more selective in hopes of producing better quality results (McLendon & Hearn, 2019). This is the exact opposite direction to the desire for inclusion and diversity, and hopefully, the push for free or cheaper tuition will offset this trend. Federal and state funding in the future should work to make it more accessible to all students. The current methods are allowing tuition to rise too rapidly and not contributing to.
Indonesian Perspective Analysis: With a Little Help from Our Friends: Private...Wajoku Digital Library
One of the problems that always hit education in various parts of the world is the budget. The limited education budget will affect the quality of education services provided to the community. Therefore, increasing public awareness to participate in education funding is important. Not only for better quality but also to make education a shared responsibility. Good & Nelson in their article entitled With a Little Help from Our Friends: Private Fundraising and Public Schools in Philadelphia, highlights the practice of educational funding that is mostly carried out by non-profit organizations based on the school environment with various pros and cons and explains what strategies can be taken to support availability of an education budget that involves community participation (Good & Nelson, 2021). This paper will also discuss its practical application in the context of education in Indonesia with various intrigues and conflicts related to public education funding.
Improving Outcomes for All Students: Strategies and Considerations to Increas...Mohammed Choudhury
This brief provides information to support school districts and stakeholders seeking to improve student diversity in their schools through voluntary, community-led programs as part of an overall effort to increase equity and excellence for all students. Diversity can include many factors, such as race, national origin, disability, socioeconomic status, and language proficiency. What follows is an action-oriented summary of considerations when embarking on efforts to increase student diversity, starting with possible steps to consider when conducting a diversity needs assessment and planning for implementation. Potential diversity strategies and a few examples from the field are included, as well as thoughts on efforts to sustain an inclusive environment once diversity strategies are being implemented.
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In the United States Primarily, the responsibility of education is vested upon individual states. This, however, does not exonerate the federal government from the education sector. The national government plays a supporting role in providing finances as well as funds and assistance in a bid to provide a lifeline whenever states are overwhelmed by the burden of overseeing the education within their jurisdictions. The funds from the feral government come in handy in helping millions of Americans, some of whom financial circumstances have impeded them from seeking education and particularly higher education. It is also judicious to note that the federal government does not only offer monetary support but also other forms of support in ways that will be discussed below.
Environment necessary for the excelling of education is also a burden of the federal government. A common myth is that the environment suitable for study which entails security, classrooms, sanitation and tranquility away from noisy environs of industries and busy towns, is only a necessity of the primary and secondary levels. However, it has since been discovered that the same environment is also needed by the tertiary level. The federal governments after providing these basic needs necessary for the thriving of the education sector in states, the states are then mandated to ensure the growth of the sector (In Inoue, 2019). Deductively, the states play a major role in determining the type of educational prospects it is going to provide for its residents.
The past centuries have experienced investment in the education sector by both the federal government and the state government and notably, the investment spread over the past fifty years is immense (Heller, 2016). These investments can be attributed to the opinion bored by the relevant stakeholders of the service to the public interest that these investments will give. The opinion further digresses from the profit-making point of an investment concept to reveal that the investments will be a stepping stone for the residents whose ambitions and desires have been just aspirations. It is at this juncture that we realize that the investments are in the form of policies. A perfect exemplar of such a policy is the enactment of the Higher Education Amendment Act of 1972 (Rose, 2018). This Act achieved the feat of assuring the public that financial incapability will not be an impediment anymore to those that sought education past high school.
In respect to policies, it is important to realize that there are no two states that are alike in their conception, designing and implementation of their policies. Each state has a unique way that they go about their public policy. This is because, unlike other public policies that target infrastructures development an.
Strategies by Luis Valentino to Drive Educational ReformJimmyGFlores
The educational reform movement in America is diverse and growing. Several constituencies form the heart of this movement but all are working to restructure public and private institutions and to influence the public policies that affect those institutions.
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2. differentiate between the following (4 marks)
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b) Graphical user interface and command -line operating system
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4. explain advantages of ICT ( 2marks)
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HOW CAN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROMOTE STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT?.......................................................... 2
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND DISTRICT
OFFICIALS IN PUBLIC.................................................. 3
WHAT IS THE PRINCIPAL'S ROLE IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT?.... 4
HOW CAN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FACILITATE STUDENT
SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT?..................................... 4
HOW CAN SCHOOLS MAINTAIN THE LONG-TERM SUPPORT OF
KEY STAKEHOLDERS?................................................. 5
RESOURCES................................................................... 6
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School systems have long recognized the need for public support and participation, but
now many districts are renewing their commitment to strengthen the ties with their
communities. More than ever, school districts realize they are dependent on community
support to meet mandated state and national performance standards, develop
innovative programs, and secure financial resources.
To build lasting community support for schools that facilitates student achievement,
school boards are developing communication strategies that routinely reach diverse
community groups. The process of building such partnerships, called public
engagement, is ongoing, two-way communication between a school d ...
Strategies for Community Engagement in School Turnaround.docxjohniemcm5zt
Strategies for
Community Engagement
in School Turnaround
March 2014
The Reform Support Network, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, supports the Race to
the Top grantees as they implement reforms in education policy and practice, learn from each other,
and build their capacity to sustain these reforms, while sharing these promising practices and lessons
learned with other States attempting to implement similarly bold education reform initiatives.
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Takeaway 1: Make Engagement a Priority and Establish an Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Takeaway 2: Communicate Proactively in the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Takeaway 3: Listen to the Community and Respond to its Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Takeaway 4: Offer Meaningful Opportunities to Participate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Takeaway 5: Turn Community Supporters into Advocates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Appendix : 11 Turnaround Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
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Introduction
Across the United States, school districts and State
education agencies (SEAs) have turned their attention
to the chronically lowest performing schools and drop
out factories, investing resources and implementing
a wide range of strategies in an effort to dramatically
improve student achievement . In many States, the
focus on “turnaround schools” has been spurred by
investments from the Federal School Improvement
Grant (SIG) program, changes to State accountability
systems and State initiatives to turn around low-
performing schools through Race to the Top and other
Federal programs . Many school districts also have
undertaken turnaround as a core reform strategy .1
This report examines one key strategy for making
school turnaround more effective: community
engagement . The purpose of community engagement
is to ensure that school improvement is done with
the community, not to the community . It recognizes
how integral schools are to their communities, and
how much parents a.
The Importance of Higher Education Issues in Americanoblex1
Survey respondents were asked to rate the importance of 31 higher education issues, using a five-point scale of '1' equaling "not important" to '5' equaling "very important." Respondents were directed to consider the importance of these issues for the state overall, not simply to reflect their own viewpoints or their agencies' agendas. Readers should keep in mind that our sample size is small, even though it represents nearly the entire universe of state higher education agencies. Mean scores should be treated as approximate, and small differences between items should not be over-interpreted as representing meaningful differences or trends.
The top issues in the states are:
- teacher preparation and professional development
- workforce preparation
- effectiveness and accountability
- K-16 systems/linkages between K-12 and postsecondary
- instructional technology/distance learning.
Many other issues are rated high as well, revealing the large number of "front burner" issues facing higher education today.
Perhaps most interesting, however, is how issues are shifting in importance over time. When we last collected this information in 2014, the dominant issue was adequacy of overall state financial support, reflecting lean years in state appropriations. While this issue is still an important one, it ranks relatively lower than several other issues.
Several substantive issues have grown in importance over the years. Teacher preparation has made a dramatic comeback after declining in importance since 2014. Interest in workforce development and K-16 systems have both shown gradual increases over the past decade. Effectiveness and accountability, while a more important issue area than ten years ago, ranks relatively lower today than it did in 2014. Instructional technology/distance learning, a relatively new and quite important issue in 2000, still ranks very high but is no longer as singularly dominant on the policy agenda of states. Access and diversity, rated quite high in the early part of the last decade had dropped significantly the last time we surveyed. Now this issue area is rising again in importance, most likely a result of challenges to affirmative action being made around the country and consequent concerns. Finally, it is noteworthy that in 2020, concern about faculty salaries is slightly more important than concern about faculty workload and productivity, though neither issue is currently in the top half of the list. This contrasts with the policy environment in 2014 when concern about faculty workload and productivity was significantly higher than concern about faculty salaries.
We briefly explored differences between coordinating board states and governing board states, and found that by and large, the overall patterns are similar.
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1. Moving Education Reform Forward
Grantmakers Reflect on a Convening with State and
Local Government Education Leaders
Steven Lawrence
Director of Research
June 2011