Center for the Collaborative Classroom

Filing Period

Nov 1, 2012 to Oct 31, 2013

Signed

Jun 23, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$23,235,590

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Other projects, both grant supported and non-grant supportedalthough the previously mentioned projects have been important focal points of the past year, developmental studies center has also been engaged in a number of other projects. Highlights of some of these include the following:* the caring school community(r) program in the oakland unified school districtwith continued funding from the s. D. Bechtel, jr. Foundation, developmental studies center continues work begun in 2011* that is focused on expanding and deepening the implementation of the caring school community (csc) program in the oakland unified school district (ousd) in oakland, california. Csc is a schoolwide, classroom-based character development program that helps schools become caring communties of learners characterized by:- caring relationships- respectful collaboration among students, staff, and parents- a sense of common purpose- a clear commitment to norms and values of kindness, respect, responsibility, and learning.* the original grant was funded by the s. D. Bechtel, jr. Foundation, the san francisco foundation, and the mendelson family fund at the east bay community foundation.* afterschool kidzscience(tm) with lawrence hall of scienceanother area of our work is with afterschool kidzscience, which we publish in collaboration with lawrence hall of science. In 2013, we published "sunlight science" (march 2013), which joined "crime lab science" and "mystery detectives" (2012). The kits include all of the materials needed for the activities, a handbook featuring science background information and a glossary, a facilitator's guide for each activity session, question cards to extend children's learning, multiple additional print components, and video clips to help after-school leaders conduct the activities.* the lesson study initiative planin 2013, dsc completed year three of "the metlife foundation lesson study initiative"--an initiative to support the refinement and dissemination of lesson study. Through the collaborative research process of lesson study, teachers learn to build trusting, collaborative relationships, working together to improve their classroom practice and, so, better support students' learning. From the start, we at dsc had two main goals for this work. First was to learn the most effective strategies for disseminating lesson study nationally. The second was to complete our lesson study support kit--the resource, now named learning lesson study course, which dsc created for scaling up lesson study--as well as to develop online tools to further support lesson study. * social media: putting it to workdsc's ever-increasing repository of blogs continues to attract readers. Overall, social media/online marketing, search engine optimization (seo), and website development efforts continue to have an increasingly positive effect on visits to our website, resulting in a 48 percent annual increase in organic traffic over last year. (this does not include traffic contributed by google adwords.) a significant effort to support a series of common core state standards (ccss) webinars and in-person events contributed to this statistic. We currently have a pool of approximately 30,000 opt-in prospects and customers.* technology enhancementsas part of developing/enhancing developmental studies center's literacy offerings, the organization is exploring new technologies to infuse into our programs. This work is ongoing, and while we will continue to study the possibilities, several themes have begun to emerge: - electronic teacher manuals: we hope to develop a new generation of teacher manuals, which will include embedded videos that show exemplary practices.- interactive white boards. For use, at first, with the making meaning and being a writer programs, we are exploring use of interactive white boards, which will provide an easy way to display program materials, including, for example, directions for students and prompts for teachers. This technology

Activity 3

Dissemination of afterschool kidzlit(r) and afterschool kidzmath(tm)in 2013, developmental studies center continued its work with the new york life after-school initiative, a project supporting the national dissemination of dsc's after-school reading and mathematics enrichment programs through funding provided by the new york life foundation. For this most-recent two-year piece of grant work, we focused on national dissemination efforts. This was an extension of the work of the original grants (2007, 2008), which centered dissemination efforts in a targeted set of cities.the primary goal of the initiative, which concluded in february 2014, has been to make dsc's afterschool kidzlit and afterschool kidzmath programs available to after-school sites serving disadvantaged children. Through this effort, greater numbers of low-income/high-need young people have had the opportunity to engage in the high-quality literacy and math enrichment experiences that these after-school programs offer. In total in the past two years, we have taken the afterschool kidzlit and afterschool kidzmath programs into 2,870 after-school sites, touched 6,240 site staff with the accompanying professional development, and engaged approximately 287,000 children in these rewarding programs.

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EIN

94-2311291