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Making the Most of Our Investments: How PK-3 Alignment Can Close the Achievement Gap from the Start
5/18/2006 to 5/19/2006
Chicago, IL, The Talbott Hotel
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Program
With high-stakes testing driving the educational future of all children, grantmakers must find new ways to help children reach third grade performance benchmarks and establish a strong foundation for future learning. Increasingly, elementary schools are recognizing that they can't afford to work in isolation and are aligning their instructional strategies with pre-kindergarten programs – particularly in schools serving the most disadvantaged students. As grantmakers, we can better leverage our investments by helping to make these connections.
This briefing provided funding and program models through which foundations from a diversity of sizes, regions and scopes can advance PK-3 alignment. It featured discussions with forward-looking school leaders, researchers and funder colleagues, as well as a site visit to Pershing Elementary School in south Chicago.
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Planning Committee
- Alfred Castle, Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation
- Annette Chin, Foundation for Child Development
- Joseph F. Dominic, The Heinz Endowments
- Jana Fleming, The Joyce Foundation
- Sybil J. Hampton, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
- Stewart Hudson, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
- Lisa Kane, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Laura Kohn, The New School Foundation
- Andrew Lachman, Connecticut Center for School Change
- Stephanie McGencey, Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
- David M. Nee, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
- Barbara Reisman, Schumann Fund for New Jersey
- Lois Salisbury, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Rosa A. Smith, Schott Foundation for Public Education
- Ruby Takanishi, Foundation for Child Development
- Greg Taylor, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Fasaha Traylor, Foundation for Child Development
- Sandra Treacy, W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation
- Sara Watson, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Sponsors
- Foundation for Child Development
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- The Joyce Foundation
- The New School Foundation
- Schott Foundation for Public Education
- William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
- The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
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