The Modern Classrooms Project Inc

“The organization has established a finance committee which is composed of 5 members of the board of directors. The duties and responsibility of the finance committee include the independent audit report review function and the form 990 review. Specifically, the form 990 is provided electronically to all finance committee members, and to any other board members upon request. Board members forward any comments or questions directly to the organization's president prior to filing.”

“Consistent with the organization's conflict of interest policy, the organization's president will monitor proposed or ongoing conflicts of interest and disclose them to the finance committee. After consultation with the finance committee, the president shall determine whether a material conflict exists, and in the case of a material conflict, whether the contemplated transaction may be authorized as being necessary for a compelling reason, just, fair, and reasonable to the organization. The president will present his determination to the executive director, who will have final responsibility for making this decision, in the interests of the welfare of the organization and the advancement of its purpose. The president will provide an annual update to the board of directors on conflict-of-interest disclosures.”

“The process of determining and approving the compensation of the organization's top management officials included 1) review and approval by the board of directors, 2) use of the guidestar nonprofit compensation report as comparable comparison, and 3)contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping. 1)review and approval. The compensation of top management officials was reviewed and approved by the entire board of directors at the organization's annual meeting. Any persons with conflicts of interest left the room while compensation was reviewed and approved. 2)use of the guidestar nonprofit compensation report as to comparable compensation. In making its decisions about compensation, the board of directors used data as to comparable compensation for similarly situated and qualified individuals in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. For the 2019 fiscal year, four distinct similarly situated organizations were considered. 3)contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping. There is contemporaneous documentation and recordkeeping with respect to the deliberations and decisions regarding executive compensation, including but not limited to the meeting minutes for the board's annual meeting.”

“Massachusetts, maryland, maine, michigan, minnesota, mississippi, north carolina, north dakota, new hampshire, new jersey, new mexico, new york, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode island, south carolina, tennessee, virginia, washington, wisconsin, west virginia”

“The organization's most recent financial statements and form 990 (with donors names omitted) are made available on the organization's website. All prior financial statements, governing documents, conflict of interest policy are made available to the public upon request.”

“Volunteers consist of board members and pro bono lawyers who donated their time and services.”

“Virtual mentorship program this is our flagship program. Educators from around the world enroll in an online course, through which they work hand-in-hand with one of mcp's expert educators to design blended, self-paced, mastery-based instructional materials of their own. Each educator receives one-on-one coaching, feedback on lesson materials, certified credentials, and other support to help implement mcp's instructional model. The modern classrooms project provides a collection of educator-created courses intended for graduates of mcp's virtual mentorship program. These courses push educators to refine their practice with content specific guidance, deep dives into core practices, and more. Mcp also offers a free self paced and self-guided online course that gives any teacher, anywhere, the materials and best practices to launch a modern classroom. Mcp's free course contains every resource, guide, template, and exemplar mcp has ever created for mcp's teachers.”

“Partnership development the modern classrooms project continuously evaluates the effectiveness of its programs and products to ensure it delivers its intended results through an ongoing process of collecting and analyzing data. The organization has been driven by data from the start and collects data from a variety of sources across the year both for evaluative and continuous improvement purposes and by integrating action-oriented data review into its team's standard activities. Through our program development and evaluation work, we assess teacher growth through our virtual mentorship program and free course and use the data to continuously improve the training experience. We seek to understand educator implementation practices and use the data to continuously improve our implementation support services. And we measure the impact of our model on teachers, students, and schools.”

“Implementation support: the modern classrooms project work with partner schools and districts to provide: site visits and convenings: conduct classroom visits coupled with in- person gatherings to observe and evaluate implementation, coach teachers, and strengthen leaders' understanding of the model. Instructional leader capacity building: coach leaders as they work to align the mcp model to school and district initiatives and seek to internalize mcp's implementatino rubric as they support their educators. Teacher leadership cultivation: identify elite implementers of the mcp model and coach them through mcp's teacher leadership pathways to build a community of new york city distinguished modern classroom educators and expert mentors. Data, research and evaluation: the modern classrooms project conducts ongoing research and evaluation of mcp's teacher-training efforts. The modern classrooms project also collect and manage data on the progress of participants in mcp's teacher training programs.”

“Content creation 621,958 0 0 stipends and fellowships 1,011,210 0 0 mentoring services 622,021 0 0 community engagement 62,271 0 0 translation and communication 1,059 5 0 research 92,340 0 0 business ambassadors 25,642 0 0 program facilitation 4,504 0 0 strategic planning 65,822 11,894 3,884 marketing and sales consultin 40,862 2,243 1,216 implementation support 25,350 0 0 graduate credits 22,965 0 0 other consulting 441,437 31,051 544 total 3,037,441 45,193 5,644”