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Posted by Kari Nathon on February 23rd, 2010
Special thanks to Full Circle Fund Member Lindsay Norcott for contributing this article.
The Students Inquiry Team, focused on organizations that innovate around individualized student learning, is midway through a rigorous process to identify the next Education Circle grantee. The team is eager to begin working with the next grantee, but is performing due diligence on all organizations under consideration.
The grant inquiry process began with team members contacting local education experts to get a sense of what is making an impact for individual students. The expert insights included the vital role of charter schools in innovation, a trend toward customized school architecture, the need for teacher training to enable new methods to be integrated effectively, and a lack of college retention data to understand results and support students beyond high school.
The generosity of time and comments by the experts allowed the Students Inquiry team to narrow their focus and identify organizations that have been innovators around these trends. After conducting initial conversations with organizations that enable individualized student learning in various ways, the Students Inquiry Team met with the grant committee to narrow down the finalists. Next steps for the team will be to conduct site visits and scope out an appropriate Full Circle Fund project for each of the following finalists:
The Students Inquiry Team, which includes members Josh Neubert, Vijay Harrell, Nathan Fisher, Robin Tsai, Sylvia Kidder Barry, Carolyn Davies and Lindsay Norcott, believes that all four organizations are very strong grant candidates. The final choice will be determined by how well the project fits Full Circle Fund’s grant criteria, which includes but is not limited to, the professional strengths and interests of the Full Circle Fund team.
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