DOWNLOADABLE CONFERENCE MATERIALS & LINKS

Materials below are presented in three sections:

• Breakout sessions (alphabetical by session name)
• Plenary sessions (alphabetical by speaker name)
• Foundation Leaders Institute

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** BREAKOUT SESSIONS **

A Tale of Two Cities

• Boston outcomes frameworks for out-of-school time systems under development

• Pittsburgh outcomes frameworks for out-of-school time systems under development

• Slides from this conference presentation

Engaging Parents from the Start

• Giving Latino Children a Stronger Start is a publication of New Journalism on Latino Children with an early childhood focus. NJLC offers fresh viewpoints and evidence on Latino children and their schools.
• The Cultural Strengths of Latino Families is a publication of New Journalism on Latino Children challenging conventional thinking about Latino families and presenting the researched facts.
• This is a brochure for Abriendo Puertas: Desarrollando un Futuro Mejor/Opening Doors: Building a Better Future highlights this initiative of Families in Schools, the nation’s first evidence-based, comprehensive training program for Latino parents with children ages 0-5, Sandra Gutierrez, National Director.
• This streaming YouTube video features the Abriendo Puertas: Desarrollando un Futuro Mejor/Opening Doors: Building a Better Future program. Produced by Multimedia/Multicultural video producer Marshall Thompson.

Making the OST-STEM Connection: Forging More Effective Teacher and Student Pathways

• This video by The After-School Corporation shows the difference training can make in preparing informal educators to effectively and confidently lead science activities with kids.
• This Resource Guide from The Collaborative for Building After-School Systems relies on the Frontiers in Urban Science Education (FUSE) model for strategies that advance informal science education in after-school settings.
• This overview of 4-H shows it to be a great youth development program for communities.
• This summary of research shows how the impact of youth development programs like 4-H can play an important role in the lives of America’s young people.
• This is an overview of the Bay Area STEM Summer Institute that provides teacher participants with an introduction to science and science careers, intensive math skill building, and training to become STEM learning leaders in after school programs.
• More information about Bay Area STEM Teacher Pathway Initiative, with details on the After School Teacher Pathway Program model.
• This slide show walks through the details of the Bay Area STEM Summer Institute.

Measure What You Treasure: Evaluating Advocacy and Public Policy Grantmaking

These resources provide an overview of advocacy evaluation challenges and solutions, as well as examples of two foundations that are evaluating and learning from their advocacy work.

• measuring_the_immeasurable
• psgs_outcome_indicators
• btw_evaluation_capacity_diagnostic_tool
• gfe_advocacy_evaluation_ppt_1010

Measuring the Immeasurable

• This is the session slide show, laying out practical techniques and considerations for building grantee capacity to evaluate hard-to-assess efforts.
• This evaluation capacity diagnostic tool is designed to help organizations assess their readiness to take on many types of evaluation activities.
• This example of a set of practical outcomes and indicators was designed for the Parents and Students for Great Schools Collaborative.
• This briefing document helps funders figure out how they can best help their grantees develop the capacity to measure progress towards outcomes on initiatives that are difficult to measure.

Scaling up Educational Excellence - Strategies for Grantmakers

• This concise and well annotated reading list provides resources for grantmakers.
• This extensive resource list, References on Scaling Social Impact & Related Topics, is grouped into several high level categories. It’s compiled by Growth Philanthropy Network, Duke’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and Duke’s Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society.
• This is the set of slides from the conference presentation..

The Federal Education Role-What Does Winning/Losing Mean for Disadvantaged Children

• This article titled The Myth of Charter Schools, written by Diane Ravitch and published in the New York Review of Books, asks for a deeper look at the problems facing disadvantaged schoolchildren today, beyond popularly promoted ideas that don't often ring true.

The Other Twenty Percent: Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence and Equity in Rural Education

• This set of slides highlights the challenges and successes of reshaping education programs in struggling rural communities, with a focus on the powerful impact that investing in nontraditional education options can have on education outcomes.

The Power of P-16: Strengthening and Aligning Systems to Drive Student Results

• This is the session slide show, touching on how P-16 collaboratives can align systems to improve student success, and identify challenges/rewards of collaborative efforts across systems and sectors. It also gives practical ideas for how to create or improve similar collaboratives.

The Promise of Expanded Learning Opportunities and School Transformation

• This video features The After-School Corporation’s Expanded Learning Time / New York City model, in which schools partner with community organizations to give kids get 30 percent more time for academic instruction and support every year, as well as diverse enrichments and sports.

This Must Be the Place: New Orleans and Real-Time School Change Efforts

• This set of slides was from the presentation by Leslie Jacobs of Educate NOW.

** PLENARY PRESENTERS **

Kati Haycock, President, The Education Trust

• Presentation slides for  A Sense of Crisis, a Call to Action: Good Intention, Great Commitment and New Roles for Grantmakers (original PowerPoint)

• Presentation slides for  A Sense of Crisis, a Call to Action: Good Intention, Great Commitment and New Roles for Grantmakers (converted to pdf)

Gary Knell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sesame Workshop

• Presentation slides for  New Media, New Partnerships and New Ideas for Learning (original PowerPoint)
  Caution: Large file - 25 MB

• Presentation slides for  New Media, New Partnerships and New Ideas for Learning (converted to pdf)

Hilary Pennington, Director of Education, Postsecondary Success and Special Initiatives, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Video presentation from  Redefining the Finish Line: Educational Attainment for All

** FOUNDATION LEADERS INSTITUTE **

James Honan, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

• A white paper supporting the October 29, 2010, presentation given by James Honan:  Bridging the Archipelago: Toward More Effective Coordination and Collaboration in Philanthropy.
  

 

Join us October 3-5, 2011 in Los Angeles

Save the dates for our 15th annual conference. GFE members will receive the Call for Session Proposals in early 2011. Members also receive early registration discounts. To learn more about our Los Angeles conference, contact John Branam, john@edfunders.org or 503.595.2100.

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