August 21, 2024 — The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is thrilled to announce the Phase II grantees of our Innovative School Systems Grant (ISSG). In partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, the first phase of this grant provided funding for 11 school districts to refine and pilot bold ideas for lasting systemic change. Over the past nine months, CRPE has had the pleasure of working closely with this cohort of true innovators through coaching, site visits, and deep collaboration. The three grantees participating in Phase II of the grant will receive an additional $1M each to continue solidifying the bold innovations underway in their districts.
Through this grant, BCPS is cultivating a district-wide professional learning culture rooted in student agency, problem-solving, and mastery learning, in alignment with its graduate profile. This year, it trained a cohort of 100+ teachers in core competencies and innovative teaching practices, coached teachers to create new mastery performance indicators, and ran lab classrooms to pilot project-based learning techniques. In Phase II, BCPS will expand these core pillars of project-based learning, competency-based assessment, and teacher professional development to 25 campuses.
CRPE will report regularly on the progress of the Phase II grantees through blogs and reports. If you’re interested in systemic change and district innovation, make sure you’re following CRPE on X and LinkedIn to get the latest updates. You can also subscribe for updates on our latest work.
CRPE wishes to extend heartfelt thanks to our Phase I grantees—we are so proud of the work we’ve done together over the past nine months and look forward to continued collaboration, conversation, and co-creation of lasting solutions.
You can find more about ISSG, the participant cohort, and resources for system innovation on our website.