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1. Coaching Parents Digitally: ReadAskChat and the Mission to Close Achievement Gaps Before School Begins
2. An Innovative Bicultural/Bilingual Workforce Model
3. Cyber-ESL Model for Adult Education
4. The Creative Schools Initiative: Incentivizing the Arts in Chicago Public Schools through a Multi-Pronged Approach
5. Untapped Potential: Focusing Philanthropic Investment to Leverage the Reach and Social Mission of Public Institutions to Test and Scale Innovative Ideas
6. Faith in Place: A High Impact Lending Program for Faith Communities
7. Reverse-Engineering a Social Enterprise Model for Nonprofits
8. Literacenter: A Home for Literacy in Chicago
9. Mirrorable: Where Brain Science Meets Daily Life
10. Creating Life-Long Learners Among Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
11. Improving Educational Outcomes Through Assistive Technology
12. Changing Who Stays and Who Goes: Inclusive Approaches for Increasing Student Retention
13. Building a Culture of Strategic Data Use
14. Hacking Diversity: A Nationally Scalable Program to Increase Diversity in the Tech Sector
15. Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning
16. Merit Prep Personalizes Learning One Playlist at a Time
17. Apprenticing in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Motor City
18. What Social Entrepreneurs Need to Know: Developing Effective Curricula for Social Entrepreneurship
19. Culture Matters: The Importance of School Culture in Creating Postsecondary Success
20. Mayoral Candidates Discuss READ! by 4th Campaign
21. A New World for Children Who Are Deaf: Listening, Talking and Thriving Alongside Their Hearing Peers
22. Transforming Communities Through Leadership Development: A Conversation with David Castro, Founder and CEO of I-LEAD
23. Leading the Write Way: Mighty Writers’ Executive Director Tim Whitaker
24. Wanted: A Single Family Home with Modern Finishes, Easy Access to Public Transportation, Shopping and Good Schools: How CDCs are Creating Communities of Choice Using Education Innovation
25. Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition Innovation @ Penn GSE
26. Schoolyard Ventures: Out of the Classroom and into the Tank
27. Uncovering the Leader within- The Philadelphia Outward Bound School
28. Northampton Community College’s Benefits Access for College Completion
29. PHENND Continues to Build Community Engagement Through the Use of AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteers
30. Encouraging Student Success Through Innovative Pathways
31. Project Cygnet
32. School District of Philadelphia Partnerships Data Project
33. The State Of Literacy In Philly Schools, By The Numbers
34. Reading Development: Two Roads
35. Notebook Editorial: We Need This Campaign
36. Resources To Improve Early Literacy Skills
37. What’s New In Professional Development
38. Hite, District Make Literacy Crusade A Priority
39. No Shortage Of Reasons Why So Many Can’t Read
40. In Teaching Literacy, Assessments Are In Real Time
41. What’s New About Read! By 4th
42. From Reading to Community
43. A Child Language Expert Talks About The Literacy Gap And The '6 Cs' Of Learning
44. State Of The Art In Literacy Instruction
45. Springboard Collaborative: An Innovative Solution to Low-Income Literacy Challenges
46. Educating Philadelphia’s Job Seekers for 21st-Century Jobs
47. Team First Book Philadelphia
48. Rethinking the Approach to Solving America’s Literacy Challenge
49. Building Financial Sustainability for Near-Term Literacy and Long-Term Career Target Outcomes
50. CLI Social Innovations: Quality Matters in PreK Instruction for Reading by Fourth Grade
51. Shared Prosperity Philadelphia
52. Enlarging a Child’s World: Woodlynde School’s Approach to Reading
53. An Integrated Literacy Model: A Private-Public Partnership
54. Reimagining Higher Education Through Incorporation of Pedagogical Innovations
55. The Issue: Moving From STEM Engagement to Motivation to Persist
56. A Bold Hypothesis: Will Thinking Lean Save the School District of Philadelphia
57. Public Health Management Corporation’s Role as OST Administrative Entity
58. Out-of-School Time Participation and Student Outcomes: An Evaluation Brief
59. A Network Wide Approach to Professional Development: Mitigating the Impact of Line Staff Turnover through Professional Development
60. A Network Wide Approach to Professional Development: Standardizing Professional Development in the OST System
61. A Network Wide Approach to Professional Development: Professional Development in Out-of-School Time
62. A Network-Wide approach to Professional development: Introduction
63. Promoting Innovation in a Scalable Out-of-School Time System
64. A Collaborative Effort: Providing Out of School Time Programs in Philadelphia Public Schools
65. The Context and Content in After School Literacy
66. Play On, Philly!: Music as a Tool for Life and Learning
67. Philadelphia Implements Healthy Living Guidelines for Out-of-School Time Programs through Collaborative System Change
68. 21st Century Community Learning Center Evaluations: A Citywide Perspective
69. Leveraging Community Partnerships to Improve Graduation Rates
70. Statewide Quality and Outcomes Assessment
71. Out-of-School into the Workforce: An Innovative Approach to Extended Day Learning
72. Program Identity: Promoting Entrepreneurship for Older Youth
73. Building Capacity to Integrate Science into Afterschool, Home, and Community
74. Hiring OST Staff: Doing A Lot With A Little
75. Classroom Management in the Out-of-School Time Setting
76. Using Youth Culture to Develop Youth Leadership
77. Using Design-Thinking to Support Content Delivery in Project-Based Learning
78. Incorporating Family Engagement in Middle School Out-of-School Time Programs
79. The LAYC Career Academy: College and Career Success for Opportunity Youth in the Nation’s Capital
80. An Interview with Kate Shaw from Research for Action
81. An Interview with Lisa Nutter, President of Philadelphia Academies, Inc.
82. An Interview with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Siobhan Reardon
83. Education Transformation: From One Size Fits All to Student-Centered Learning
84. Is K–12 Blended Learning Disruptive?
85. Innovate or Perish? The School District of Philadelphia
86. EduCon
87. Creating a Culture Where Devices Complement Learning
88. Building the Missing Link between the Common Core and Improved Learning: How a state, a school district and a technical assistance provider are using their best resource—teachers—to implement the Common Core standards for improved teaching and learning
89. Does Blended Learning Offer A Realistic Solution to Projected Job Losses?
90. A Threefold Plan for Trainers and Educators in Today’s Diverse Learning Environments
91. The End of Schools
92. Watching Dr. Hite Succeed
93. Going to Scale: The Challenge of Replicating Innovative and Proven School Designs
94. The School Collective
95. Fostering Innovation: How the Education Sector Can Learn from Health Care
96. Opportunities, Obstacles and Outcomes in Educational Gaming: Teaching to the Common Core, 21st Century Skills and Beyond
97. Advancing Children With Learning Disabilities: How an Innovative Cyber Charter School Specializing in Serving Students with Reading, Math and Written ExpressionCould Foster Wide-Reaching, Breakthrough Innovation in Education
98. Building the Next Generation of Education Leaders
99. Blended Learning Transforming the Factory Style of Education
100. Coaching Philadelphia Students to Success
101. Philly Goes to College: Changing the College-Going Culture of Philadelphia
102. A Way Out
103. Analyzing the Global Frontiers in Education for Work: New Principles for Enabling Innovation
104. Building a Pipeline to Postsecondary Success: A Promising Workforce and Education Initiative Takes Root in California
105. A Philadelphia Social Innovation Becomes a Movement: Graduate! Philadelphia and the Graduate! Network
106. Philadelphia Leader Insights on Workforce
107. Getting to The Root of It
108. Philadelphia's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Its Students: A Pathway to Shared Success
109. Limelight Arts: Applying a Holistic Approach to Arts Education
110. Centers for Educational Excellence: “Urban Renewal” for Teachers and Educational Nonprofits
111. Hatching Eggs: A Curriculum Incubator
112. Closing the Literacy Gap in Philadelphia
113. Play On, Philly!: Music for Social Change
114. Teaching Children Hope Through Theater: 1812 Productions’ Arts Outreach in Philadelphia Public Schools
115. Using Schools as Centers for Urban Revitalization
116. Turning Poverty into Promise: From High School Remediation to College Degrees
117. A Young Philadelphia Social Entrepreneur Reflects on Expanding her Career through Social Investment
118. Diplomas Now: Providing Solutions to the Education Crisis in America
119. Clearing the Path: Creating Innovation Space for Serving Over-Age, Under-Credited Students in Competency-Based Pathways
120. Innovations in Education: It Starts with a Conversation
121. Overview and Introduction to the Education Reform in the 21st Century
122. The Rise of K–12 Blended Learning
123. The Children’s Literacy Initiative: Lessons for Success and Preparation for Challenges
124. Educational Vocational Models for Building Workforce Competencies
125. Bringing a Public Voice to the School Governance Debate: The Campaign for Better Schools and Mayoral Control in New York City
126. High Impact Philanthropy to Improve Teaching Quality: Focus on High-Need Secondary Students
127. Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education
128. The Free Public Library’s Role in Education
129. Widening the Circle of our Concern – Public Perceptions of the School District of Philadelphia’s Response to Intergroup Conflicts
130. Summer Search: The True Impact of Mentorship
131. Creating Social Entrepreneurs: The Catalyst for Reform of Public Education
132. Financing Public Education: Tax Increment Financing
133. What Kids Deserve
134. Better Recess for a Better School Experience: West Philadelphia Recess Initiative
135. Reforming the Education Conversation
136. Learning to Share: Filling Empty School Seats by Coordinating Facilities Planning
137. Corporate Support for Philadelphia Public Schools
138. The New Wave of Education Reform in Philadelphia: Change We Can Believe In?
139. Measuring Student Proficiency and Creating Capacity: The Move Toward End-of-Course Exams in Pennsylvania
140. Can The National Center on Time & Learning Bring Longer Schools Days to One Million Students?
141. Child Care, the Other Education System
142. A Voice and a Choice for Students with Special Needs
143. A Lifeguard Downstream: The Need for Innovation in Educating Working Learners
144. Capitalizing on the Strengths of Practitioners, Researchers, and Universities to Produce Top-Quality Teachers
145. Redefining the Role of Teachers and Their Unions in Reform Efforts
146. KIPP Open Book: Transparency and Accountability in Schools
147. Preparing Better Teachers by Improving the Student Teaching Semester
148. How Legislative Reforms Will Transform Schools in Pennsylvania
149. Giving Parents a Choice, Giving Children a Chance
150. Developing a Talent Mindset
151. Building the Next Generation of Philadelphia’s Leaders
152. Nominate an Innovation: Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia
153. Nominate an Innovation: Mighty Writers
154. Nominate an Innovation: Champions of Caring
155. The Department of Human Services’ Education Support Center: A Public/Private Partnership
156. Academy In Manayunk (AIM): Changing Learning Differences from Deficits to Assets
157. Social Innovations Tidbits
158. Data as the Critical Driver of College Access and Success Partnerships
159. Congreso: Building Nonprofit Partnerships and Determining Their Financial Costs
160. Using Income-Generating Activities to Educate Students for a Global Economy through 100% Market-Driven Education
161. Frontline Staff as Social Innovators
162. Graduate! Philadelphia: Turning Unused Credits into College Degrees
163. Sourcing a Solution
164. Rocket Science or Teaching: Which is More Difficult?