The Education Impact Guide

Overview

Education is... students and teachers spending time in a place for learning with the right stuff and a system that supports success.

Using this statement as a scaffold, the Education Impact Guide broadly encapsulates the various Theories of Change that can be brought to education reform.

The education system is too big to work on all of it at once, especially on a volunteer basis. It is easy to become lost in the weeds; the Education Impact Guide helps us address this challenge. Using the Guide, it is easier to thoughtfully identify opportunities to support the very best change agents in their efforts to support students.

Any "Theory of Change" concept, stated alone, may seem simplistic. Still, deconstructing the elements of "what counts" in effective education makes it easier to discover brilliance and understand it.

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Praise for the Education Impact Guide

"The Education Impact Guide helps connect the dots among the many forces of change pushing and pulling education change – and shows why Full Circle Fund has rapidly become one of the Bay Area's most influential non-profit organizations."

  Ted Mitchell

  President, California State Board of Education

  CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund

"…should be required reading for anyone involved in educational policy or leadership."

  Dom Summa

  Assistant Executive Director,

  Negotiations and Organizational Development

  California Teachers Association

"…accomplishes more in 27 pages than thousands of pages' worth of articles and studies about school reform."

  David N. Plank

  Executive Director

  Policy Analysis for California Education

"…does a great job of pulling together the various issues facing education in California today."

  Ellen Moir

  Executive Director, New Teacher Center

"…asks important questions about education change, which is harder than it sounds."

  Mary Perry

  Deputy Director, EdSource

"…puts the essentials of California's school results into a readable form."

  Ted Lempert

  President, ChildrenNow

"…one of the most thoughtful – and thought-provoking – pieces on education reform I've seen."

  Merrill Vargo

  Executive Director, Springboard Schools

"…cuts directly through the hype. Here, in brief form, are the major factors driving or impeding change in California schools."

  Susanna Loeb

  Professor of Education

  Director of the Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice at Stanford

"…a crisp and clever summary of the many ideas that compete for attention among education reformers today."

  Bill Jackson

  President, GreatSchools

"Full Circle provides a clear and completely credible picture of the challenges facing California and manages in very concise terms to knock away the fog and get down to the real issues. They are a voice of reason that points to how California's future depends on improving its schools."

  Eric Hanushek

  Senior Fellow

  Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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The Education Impact Guide
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Education Impact Guide
BY: Jeff Camp, 2008
TEAM LEAD:
Evan Lurie

"Reading the Impact Guide helps our members understand how their work with Full Circle fits into the larger context of education change in California."

Jeff Camp

Chair,
Education Impact Circle