Education

Goal - Children should be equipped with a basic education in reading, writing, math, and science. They should develop the character and relational skills necessary to be successful, contributing members of society.

Education Grants Program Director - Cathy L. Vaughn

Active Education Grants as of August 2007:

Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School – Graduate Support Program – This program provides a principle source of transitional tools, placement guidance, academic, social, and peer support for graduating students - allowing them the resources to sustain the exceptional education received at The Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School through their academic careers.

Greater New Orleans Education Foundation – Professional and Technical Support for New Orleans Public Schools –GNOEF provides professional and technical support to the New Orleans Recovery School District, New Orleans Public Schools, and Charter Schools.

Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation – WYES-TV Middle Level Teacher Instructional Media Project – This project is an eight hour videotape/DVD series on developmentally appropriate and responsive instructional strategies and curriculum for young adolescents ages 10 through 15 years.  The WYES series will be given to middle school teachers in selected middle schools in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes during the academic year to assist in professional development and middle school instructional training.

Healthy Lifestyle Choices – Children’s Education Collaborative Charter School Model – This grant provides funding for direct services essential to operational and cultural turnaround in public schools; funding for a community involvement planning process to solidify the changes; and small capital grants as incentives.

Healthy Lifestyle Choices - Healthy Lifestyle Choices –HLC implements a four-component behavioral health curriculum to reach local children ages 2-12 and provide them with knowledge and skills to make healthy choices before damaging behaviors are initiated.

Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans - Literacy Americorps Project - This project recruits, supports, and trains a large corps of full-time teachers and tutors to serve in the adult basic education programs in the Greater New Orleans area through the national Literacy Americorps program.

Loyola University of New Orleans - Creating Workforce Attachment for New Orleans' Most Vulnerable Population –This program organizes a multi-sector group of organizational leaders to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable response to a significant social concern: the life chances of vulnerable African-American young men, ages 19-30, by realigning resources so as to bridge turf boundaries, criminal justice, education and social services.

St. Bernard Parish School Board - Project STAR – This intervention is designed to stop students from dropping out of school, and subsequently catch-up to their age-appropriate grade level in middle school or to enter high school.

St. Bernard Parish School Board – Cybercamps for the 21^st Century Kid – The St. Bernard Parish Public Schools conduct a series of 'Summer Discovery' camps. This grant supports a supports the 'Cybercamps' where youth have a chance to learn the nuances of technology such as C++, Flash, 3D animation, robotics, and game modding. 

School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans - Supports the School Leadership Center - The Center trains principals and impacts school teams for the improvement of student achievement in the five-parish region.

Teach for America – Greater New Orleans Expansion - This expansion project to increase the Teach for America corps size in Orleans and Jefferson Parish Schools provides a much needed, immediate influx of highly qualified teachers to public schools in this region with the ultimate goal of dramatically impacting academic achievement.

United Way of Greater New Orleans - High Quality Childcare Project – This demonstration project implements standards and builds organizational capacity at three childcare pilot sites. Technical assistance providers partner with sites to develop appropriate training and determine and gather data and provide three accredited childcare organizations as mentors to the three pilot sites.

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