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Education
Healthy communities strive for excellence in educating their children. Rose Community Foundation's strategic priorities in the Education program area reflect the belief that every child deserves a quality teacher in his or her classroom, and a school system that supports learning for everyone in it, including teachers. The Foundation considers proposals for a variety of programs that lead to improved student achievement, with greatest emphasis placed on efforts that address the following priorities in prekindergarten through grade 12:
Quality Teaching
Proposals may address efforts in the following areas:
- Support for the development of schools as learning organizations for teachers by making professional development part of the workday.
- Innovative teacher-training efforts.
- Raising standards for the teaching profession and measuring teacher performance against these standards.
Systemic Change in Individual Schools and in Public Education
Among other issues, proposals may address:
- school restructuring efforts;
- standards-based education implementation;
- contract negotiations;
- school board effectiveness and development;
- alternative governance structures for schools and/or school districts; and
- the development of schools as communities of caring, justice and democracy.
Rose Community Foundation also makes a limited number of grants for programs outside the school day that support the academic development of school-aged children.
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