Irvine Foundation Awards Linked Learning Grant

The James Irvine Foundation awards $1.4m one-year grant to the Institute for Evidence-based Change to continue data support for the Linked Learning District Initiative and expand support to regional hubs across California.

NOW AVAILABLE – Real World, Contextualized Curriculum: Math, English and Career Technical Education Guides

The Strategic Linking of Academic and Technical Education (SLATE) project has built on the known advantages of contextual learning by teaming high school and college English and mathematics faculty with faculty from career technical education sectors and pathways. The result: Contextualized lessons and guides ready for teaching at the high school and college levels.

Lumina Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant to Institute for Evidence-Based Change in Support of Tuning USA

Lumina Foundation has awarded IEBC a $1 million, three-year grant to support continuation and expansion of Tuning USA, a faculty-driven process that makes explicit for students, faculty, employers, and others what students know, understand, and are able to do at the completion of a degree in a given discipline or professional program.

IEBC Releases Final Report of Landmark Foster Youth Study That Reveals Low Educational Outcomes

The study is the first time longitudinal data on foster youth education outcomes have been compared to other at-risk student populations. The study reveals the substantial challenges faced by foster youth and provides insight into factors affecting their academic performance over time, including multiple out-of-home placements and multiple school changes.

IEBC Around the Country

IEBC teams are spread out this November, with several days in Oxnard, California on data use, a team in Idaho working on technology and data use and its relation to student college and career readiness, and another in Montana with two-days of faculty meetings working on Tuning.