Partners
Interested in adding your organization's name to our growing list of partners?
Contact us at info@rethinklearningnow.com.
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Advancement Project
The Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice, was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1998. Our mission is to develop, encourage, and widely disseminate innovative ideas, and pioneer models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy!
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Alliance for Childhood
The Alliance for Childhood is a partnership of individuals and organizations committed to providing a healthier, more creative childhood for all children. It focuses on areas critical to children's well-being, including the restoration of play.
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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is a national alliance of educator preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development of teachers and school leaders in order to enhance PK-12 student learning.
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Antioch Center for School Renewal
The Antioch Center for School Renewal has 25-years of experience in providing high quality professional development for educators across New England. As the service division of the Department of Education at Antioch University New England, our unique staff of highly skilled, experienced K-12 teacher-leaders and core university faculty are part of an educational institution that dates back to Horace Mann and embodies the values of progressive, student-centered education.
The mission of the Antioch Center for School Renewal is to support and nurture the creation of equitable, inspiring, personalized learning communities and to make them the common experience for young people and educators everywhere.
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ASPIRA
ASPIRA is the only national Hispanic organization dedicated exclusively to developing the educational and leadership capacity of Hispanic youth. Since 1961, ASPIRA has been working at the grass-roots level to provide programs that encourage Hispanic students to stay in school, prepare them to succeed in the educational arena, develop their leadership skills, and to serve their community.
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Center for Civic Education
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries. The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Programs focus on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; American political traditions and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; constitutionalism; civic participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Center for Collaborative Education
The mission of the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) is to transform schools to ensure that all students succeed. We believe that schools should prepare every student to achieve academically and make a positive contribution to a democratic society. CCE partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.
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Center for Inspired Teaching
Center for Inspired Teaching is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational reform organization in Washington, D.C. dedicated to ensuring schools make the most of children's innate desire to learn. We do this by investing in teachers through courses and mentoring, school partnerships, research, and advocacy. Inspired Teaching’s programs embrace both accountability and creativity as a means for raising student achievement. Since 1995, Center for Inspired Teaching has provided training for more than 5,000 educators throughout the DC metropolitan area, improving instruction for over 125,000 students by creating the capacity for teachers to serve as agents of change in their classrooms, schools, and beyond.
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Education Law Center
Founded in 1973, Education Law Center (ELC) advocates on behalf of public school children for access to an equal and adequate education under state and federal laws. ELC's work is based on a core value: if given the opportunity, all children can achieve high academic standards to prepare them for citizenship and to compete in the economy.
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EdVisions
EdVisions Schools mission is to create schools that will enhance relationships and build relevant learning environments that empower students, parents and teachers to make choices. These learning environments utilize self-directed, project-based learning to build student autonomy through relevant learning opportunities; create student belongingness through full-time advisories; and empower teachers via teacher-managed, democratically collaborative schools. EdVisions has two divisions: one focuses on school development, including ongoing school coaching; and two, the EdVisions Leader Center, which supports school development through best practice dissemination, institutes, research, and a variety of technical assessment tools.
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Fair Test
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. FairTest also works to end the misuses and flaws of testing practices that impede those goals.
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The Five Freedoms Project
The Five Freedoms Project is a national organization that provides leadership development, coaching and support to address two of America’s greatest challenges — improving the performance of our public schools, and strengthening the quality of our civic discourse — at the same time.
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The Forum for Education and Democracy
The Forum for Education and Democracy is a national education "action tank" committed to the public, democratic role of public education - the preparation of engaged and thoughtful democratic citizens. At The Forum, we work to promote a public education system worthy of a democracy, one characterized by strong public schools, equity of educational resources, and an informed, involved citizenry.
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Foxfire
Foxfire (The Foxfire Fund, Inc.) is a not-for-profit educational and literary organization based in Rabun County, Georgia. Founded in 1966, Foxfire's learner-centered, community-based educational approach is advocated through both a regional demonstration site (the Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center) grounded in the Southern Appalachian culture that gave rise to Foxfire, and a national program of teacher training and support (the Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning) that promotes a sense of place and appreciation of local people, community, and culture as essential educational tools.
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IDEA
What if all young people had the freedom to be creative, curious, collaborative learners? IDEA envisions an American education system based on respect for human rights and democratic values of freedom and responsibility, participation and collaboration, and equity and justice. IDEA seeks to frame the national dialogue about education, build a diverse network of participants, and catalyze sustainable action at the local, regional, and national levels.
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Justice Matters
Justice Matters is a national racial justice movement building organization focusing on creating education policy rooted in community vision. Justice Matters employs a comprehensive multi-tiered approach that includes community organizing, communications, and policy. We believe that young people of color thrive in public schooling that engages each student’s brilliance and communities through joyful, culturally responsible practices. This educational experience prepares the next generation of leaders to build a more just and healthy world.
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NAACP
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
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National Alliance of Black School Educators
The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) is dedicated to improving both the educational experiences and accomplishments of African American youth through the development and use of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement.
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National Congress of American Indians
The NCAI was founded in 1944 in response to termination and assimilation policies that the United States forced upon the tribal governments in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereigns. NCAI serves to secure for ourselves and our descendants the rights and benefits to which we are entitled; to enlighten the public toward the better understanding of the Indian people; to preserve rights under Indian treaties or agreements with the United States; and to promote the common welfare of the American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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New York Performance Standards Consortium
The New York Performance Standards Consortium, a coalition of 31 small, diverse public high schools across New York State, exemplifies education reform based on a strong commitment to school-as-community, on-going professional development, and active, inquiry-based learning. Consortium schools have designed a system of challenging performance-based assessments to gauge student learning and fulfill graduation requirements.
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Natural Learning Research Institute
The Natural Learning Research Institute is a not for profit organization dedicated to researching and introducing natural learning into education at all levels. It was created by individuals from many educational settings, including public and private schools, university professors and researchers, the public service and human resource development. The Institute's work is grounded in the system principles of natural learning developed by Renate and Geoffrey Caine and on the theory and processes that they have been developing and testing for almost 20 years. It constantly explores other fields of research that support its efforts, including current understanding about the nature of expertise, the design and impact of video games, authentic leadership, organizational development, communities of practice and systems theory.
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The New DEEL
The mission of the New DEEL is to create an action-oriented partnership, dedicated to inquiry into the nature and practice of democratic, ethical educational leadership through sustained processes of open dialogue, right to voice, community inclusion, and responsible participation toward the common good. We strive to create an environment to facilitate democratic ethical decision-making in educational theory and practice which acts in the best interest of all students.
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The Orion Society
Since 1982 Orion has published work that challenges conventional wisdom and offers ideas to promote cultural and environmental change. In ensuing years programs in education, and grassroots activism have been added, as have workshops and conferences. Orion has pioneered the approach called Place-Based Education and offers a summer workshop called "Educating in a Changing Climate." Its current education focus is promoting whole-child alternatives to narrow accountability mandates.
The evolving mission of The Orion Society, which with The Myrin Institute publishes Orion, is to inform, inspire, and engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and community.
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PlusTime NH
PlusTime NH strives for a day when every child in New Hampshire is safe, supported and inspired afterschool. The mission of PlusTime NH is to provide the guidance, leadership, and support essential to improve, and sustain afterschool programs in New Hampshire communities. We do this by providing funding, professional development, and human resources to the afterschool field in New Hampshire.
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Public Education Network
Public Education Network (PEN) is a national constituency of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to increase student achievement and advance public school reform in low-income communities across America. PEN believes that an active, vocal constituency is key to ensuring that every child, in every community, benefits from a quality public education.
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Public Schools for Tomorrow
Public Schools for Tomorrow is a national group of public school superintendents, former superintendents, and friends. Our goal is to bring about fundamental change in the schools and in society so that all children learn to high standards, nurture their personal growth and talents, and develop their capacities. Please see the website for the PSFT Principles.
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Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools began in 1986 as a local effort to create classrooms for hope and social justice as an alternative to test-driven standardization. It has grown into a prominent publisher of educational materials and a national voice for grassroots educators committed to social justice. Rethinking Schools is an activist project, addressing both classroom and policy issues with materials written by and for teachers, parents, and students.
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Small Schools Workshop
The Small Schools Workshop is a group of educators, organizers and researchers who work in collaboration with teachers, principals, parents, and district leaders to create new, small, innovative learning communities in public schools.
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Spark
Spark is the only youth empowerment program in the country that addresses the dropout crisis by re-engaging at-risk students through one-on-one apprenticeships. These workplace-based apprenticeships — in professions each student has identified as a "dream job" — are complemented by a leadership curriculum, workshops, and field trips. The Spark experience creates a powerful sense of relevance for students, while providing the skills and confidence necessary to be successful in school and in life.
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Strengths Movement
The Strengths Movement in Schools is a non-profit 501(c )3 with the mission to help young people discover their unique paths in life by leveraging their strengths rather than focusing on their weaknesses. We believe that young people who discover their Activity, Relationship and Learning Strengths will experience greater success, satisfaction and significance by understanding how to make a meaningful contribution in life. We do this by working with parents, teachers, schools and organizations responsible for the care and raising of young people. Our goal is to put technology based, media driven strengths development tools into the hands of 2 million teens by 2015.
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The Teacher Salary Project
The Teacher Salary Project addresses the urgent need for a complete cultural shift in the way our society values effective teachers. Based on the New York Times bestselling book Teachers Have It Easy, the project is a feature-length documentary film, social media and advocacy outreach campaign that is documenting the collective story of the 3.2 million teachers in America and how they are critical to our democracy.
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United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries
The United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries' mission is to speak and act prophetically through community mobilization, leadership training, issues education, public witness and public policy advocacy in support of the social action policies of the United Church of Christ's General Synod, its biennial governing body. Historically the United Church of Christ has worked to strengthen public schools especially valuing their public role in our democracy, and spoken out against policies that weaken public education - including inequity, racism and xenophobia, an over-focus on standardization and high stakes testing, and privatization.
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University Council for Educational Administration
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is an international consortium of prestigious research universities committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of children, schools and society. UCEA, as a consortium, symbolizes an important aspiration--advancing significantly the field of educational leadership through inter-institutional cooperation, communication, and contribution.
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WorldBlu
The purpose of WorldBlu is to unleash human potential and inspire freedom by championing the growth of organizational democracy worldwide. Our vision is to build a more democratic world, one organization at a time, and our goal is to see the creation of 20,000 democratic workplaces around the world by 2020. We inspire and support this global movement by offering a range of programs and services that enable business leaders to design, develop, and lead the most successful democratic organizations in the world.