Spotlights

Education Forward DC works to advance quality and equity in DC public schools. Read the stories behind this transformation.

Transforming teaching at Johnson Middle School

Something powerful is happening at John Hayden Johnson Middle School in Southeast DC, and it is empowering teachers to be more creative, innovative, and collaborative. Through a partnership with CityBridge Education, supported by Education Forward DC, Sixth Grade Academy teachers at John Hayden Johnson Middle School designed and implemented a new team teaching approach with […]

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Building bridges between educators and parents of students with disabilities

Parents’ voices are critical to student success, especially for students with special educational and health needs. “For neurodiverse children, there’s a whole alphabet soup of letters out there, vocabulary-wise,” said Sherry Persaud, a parent at Bridges Public Charter School. From assessments to Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings, every piece of special education can seem overwhelming […]

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Engaging student voice in DC education research

Gustavo Rosas Cardoso and several fellow student researchers from the Columbia Heights Educational Campus (CHEC) earned the unique opportunity to present their research at one of the most prominent education conferences in the world with the help of the DC Education Research Collaborative. The CHEC team was selected to present at the 2023 American Educational […]

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Incubating the next generation of leaders 

“Education Pioneers was like the family I needed to re-instill the confidence and courage that I knew was in me, so I could make the transition into a career in education,” said Malaika Ogukwe. Education Pioneers builds the knowledge and capacity of new education leaders through its fellowship program that matches early career fellows with […]

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Advancing equity through academic rigor

Students at Two Rivers Public Charter School now have an English Language Arts curriculum that offers a wide range of diverse perspectives, challenging assignments, and differentiated instruction after working with TNTP to make data-driven instructional decisions. “The question we asked was, how do we, as an organization, really get a hold of both the expectations […]

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Supporting emerging leaders committed to equity

We can’t build an education system that results in success for Black and brown students without new leaders who are committed to better outcomes for them. In 2022, Education Forward DC supported the DC expansion of the Surge Academy as part of our work to develop the next generation of Black and Latinx education leaders. […]

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A first-class educational experience

Kiye Corbitt, joined Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys in the fourth grade as a founding student. Early on, he understood that Statesmen was more than just the school he attended. “It felt like they were teaching each one of us individually. They cared a whole lot about all of us and they loved us,” […]

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Developing the next generation of innovators

At Digital Pioneers Academy (DPA), tenth grader Caron Owens spends a lot of his time experimenting, building, and creating, inside the classroom. Learning animation design, building robots, and writing code, are just a few of the skills he has learned as a scholar at the computer science immersion program for middle and high school students. […]

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Reflecting on 5 Years of Education Forward DC

Reflecting on 5 Years of Education Forward DC In July 2021, Education Forward DC celebrated our five year anniversary. In that relatively short amount of time, our investment of over $40 million in more than 80 unique grantees to build greater equity for DC students has supported meaningful gains for DC’s public schools and the […]

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Spotlights

Transforming teaching at Johnson Middle School

Building bridges between educators and parents of students with disabilities

Engaging student voice in DC education research

​Incubating the next generation of leaders

Advancing equity through academic rigor

Supporting emerging leaders committed to equity

A first-class educational experience

Developing the next generation of innovators

Reflecting on 5 Years of Education Forward DC

Incubating the next generation of leaders 