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Rose Community Foundation’s goal in education is to create lasting and positive change to ensure that every child has access to high-quality education.
Colorado’s substantial education reform in recent years emphasizes statewide standards, assessment, accountability, and the underlying principle that all children – not just an elite few – must achieve at high levels. Research increasingly links students’ academic performance with the quality of teaching they receive.
The Foundation’s grantmaking in education reflects the principle that school programs, policies and practices should ensure the highest possible quality teaching in our community’s classrooms. That is why Rose Community Foundation invested nearly $4 million in ProComp, the groundbreaking teacher-compensation system adopted by Denver Public Schools in 2005.
While the Foundation focuses its resources on efforts that lead to improved student achievement, it places greatest emphasis on two priorities in prekindergarten through grade 12.
The first is quality teaching. Research consistently shows that more than any other factor in school, the quality of a student’s teacher has the greatest impact on his or her performance. As a result, Rose Community Foundation values efforts to recruit, develop and retain great educators.
The second priority is systemic change in individual schools and in public education. While the root causes of low student performance are many, schools and school districts do not always have the systems in place to advance learning and close persistent learning gaps between high-achieving and low-achieving students. As a result, Rose Community Foundation supports efforts that seek to close the achievement gap and that produce quantitative student achievement results so that the success of the projects is measureable.
With its focus on teacher quality and student achievement, Rose Community Foundation is helping to create lasting change in the state’s educational system.
Click on the following links to see Rose Community Foundation's Grant Guidelines for Education, or to contact Janet Lopez, Program Officer in Education.
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