clients

Collaborative provides the Alliance for Excellent Education with advise and expertise on a wide range of issues, including research and analysis, project management, the development of written policy and advocacy documents, and the development and coordination of public engagement events.

Collaborative provided Achieve Hartford! with trusted advice and researched recommendations on developing an effective strategic and communications plan for this emerging local education fund.

Collaborative provides the School District of Collier County (FL) with expertise and ongoing consulting on the design and strategic planning process of the school district.

The Nevada Public Education Foundation utilizes Collaborative’s knowledge and expertise on planning strategic initiatives, as well as facilitating sessions with high-level leaders, policymakers, and decision makers.

Collaborative facilitated a retreat with the Clark County Ready for Life Coalition hosted by the Nevada Public Education Foundation (NPEF) to support and promote excellence in Nevada public education programs. Collaborative continued its work with NPEF to facilitate a retreat for the organization's board in 2007 and 2008.

For the past 9 years, Collaborative has served as trusted advisor to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation by providing critical management of their member networks, research and analysis on seminal publications, and coordination services for conferences that bring to together practitioners, policymakers, and key stakeholders.

Collaborative supports the Mott Foundation’s work on national and statewide initiatives, as well as managing all aspects of the Statewide Afterschool Network, including the Web site, ongoing conference calls, Webinars, and marketing pieces. In addition, Collaborative partnered with the Mott Foundation to develop a Time, Learning, and Afterschool Task Force, whose primary goal was to develop recommendations that will integrate afterschool programs and formal schooling. The result, A New Day for Learning, is an influential publication that rethinks how child and youth use their time for learning.

Collaborative provides the Department of Defense Education Activity with research, writing, and publication production expertise. Collaborative serves as lead researcher, writer, and designer for a comprehensive print and online guide, for the Department of Defense Education Activity. The guide will assist multiple sectors to support military children's educational transition.

Collaborative produced Students at the Center, a guide to help military families, military leaders, and school leaders understand the hurdles faced during a child’s educational transition. It contains information on school choice, Impact Aid, No Child Left Behind, and a number of other critical resources. In addition, Collaborative assisted in the development of a Web site that will bring elements of the print publication online for easier access, including links to valuable resources. The publication and Web site will be available in April 2009, and is the latest effort of educational support for families and communities from the Collaborative team.

With the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, Collaborative serves as advisor on online tool and technology development. The Forum sought out Collaborative’s knowledge and expertise to develop an online toolkit dedicated to improving mathematics instruction for early adolescent learners.

The toolkit, produced by Collaborative, organizes resources developed by four partner organizations, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of mathematics teaching and learning. Tools focus on high level mathematics instruction for English language learners and students with special needs, as well as mathematics instruction in rural settings.

Collaborative worked hand-in-hand with the Forum and partner organizations to create the online navigation and architecture of the overall toolkit. Collaborative also provided design and content for the toolkit, as well as working with the partner organizations to create Web-specific presentations of their individual tools.

The Council of Chief State School Officers sought out Collaborative to advise on member network support, Web site content, and online tool and technology production, particularly in the development of a tool to help professionals network.

Collaborative developed an award-winning, fully comprehensive online network development tool that enabled professionals to connect, pose dilemmas, and learn in public and private forums. Specifically, we provided monthly content for the site, identified main themes and aided in the overall maintenance of the site. Our team also developed interactive tools for the Web site to further enhance the learning experience of site visitors. These tools simulated live assessments in system redesign and strategic planning.

The Web site was awarded the 2006 Best in Class Interactive Media Award which honors individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement in Web site design and development. The Web site was also recognized as an Official Honoree of The 2005 Webby Awards. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence in Web design, creativity, usability and functionality.

Collaborative serves the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind on issues such as commission management, publication and content development, and strategic planning on the dissemination of the Commission’s materials.

Collaborative produced the Commission's final report and outreach materials, including research, writing, editing and design. The redesigned Web site aligned with the release of the report and supported every aspect of communications around the release including media outreach, production of press materials and event logistics.

After the report’s release, Collaborative designed a post-release strategy to keep the Commission’s recommendations fresh in the field and to continue to lead the dialogue around the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act. Collaborative provided consulting and support for advocacy strategies such as coalition-building, and on-going communications strategies such as research and regular e-mail alerts.

Collaborative helped the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) demonstrate to key stakeholders throughout the state the coordinated system of professional development opportunities for education leaders. This was particularly important to legislators and other state policy makers as they make decisions about continual and expanded support of professional development statewide. The development of an online statewide mapping tool of professional development opportunities was also important to education leaders themselves, as a tool to navigate their professional development options.

The online mapping tools was accompanied by a broad-based communications strategy Collaborative developed for the Department, focused on increasing understanding and awareness of this system of professional development options as well as other efforts at the state level to increase learning opportunities for all children.