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The
Foundation supports efforts to expand educational opportunities
at all levels. We are particularly interested
in programs that:
- Encourage
a love of learning early, before children reach
kindergarten
- Motivate
students to achieve and gain the skills that allow them
to reach their academic and career goals, including vocational
training
- Increase
educational choice through charter schools and scholarships
to private secondary schools, vocational schools, colleges
and universities
- Encourage
girls and young women to prepare for and achieve careers
in math, science and technology
- Strengthen
the teaching profession through technology training and
other professional development opportunities
Featured
Grants:
Raising
A Reader | www.pcf.org/raising_reader/program.html
Raising
A Reader® is a take-home book bag program that promotes
daily "book cuddling" between parents and their children
from birth to age 5, cultivating a shared story experience
that fosters a love of reading important to school success.
It reaches the toughest, most critical population: low income
families where parents are poor readers or do not speak
English well. Six independent evaluations show that Raising
A Reader significantly improves family reading behavior
and kindergarten readiness. Parents in the program showed
a 33% increase in the time spent sharing stories with their
children, and Spanish-speaking families increased their
use of public library services by 56%.
Currently,
the Raising A Reader program is being offered to child care
providers and their agencies across the nation. The program
is designed to be easy and enjoyable for busy families.
Friendly and accessible, Raising A Reader inspires even
illiterate or limited English-speaking families to gather
around a book with their children and fall in love with
reading. The Morgan Family Foundation supports high impact
programs that prepare children for kindergarten.
Raising
A Reader is a Social Venture Fund of the Center for Venture
Philanthropy, a program of the Peninsula Community Foundation.
Earn
While You Learn, Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill
College | www.foothill.edu/kci
The
mission of the Center for Innovation is to create a regional
center in Silicon Valley to empower educators and students
to dramatically improve learning outcomes through technology
and the scholarship of learning. The Center encourages collaboration
and mentoring of teachers with their peers on "Best Practices"
in lesson plan development across grade levels and curriculum
areas both on-line and in-person. It also provides access
to research and development in up-to-date teaching methodology
to meet the various needs and learning styles of today's
students.
Earn
While You Learn is a year-long project-based learning
program available to San Francisco Bay Area teachers. Teachers
are selected through a competitive application process.
Participating teachers earn continuing education units as
well as a stipend upon completion of the program. Teachers
learn models of pedagogy and curriculum for technology integration,
strategies to maximize technology integration for student
learning, and best practices for integrating the Internet,
word processing, data organization and multimedia into their
curriculum.
The
Morgan Family Foundation is committed to supporting professional
development programs to strengthen the teaching profession.
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