Best Practices in Remote Learning
Promise in the time of Quarantine
Kairos Academies was featured in a new study by Bellwether Education Partners as a case study for best practices in remote learning and COVID-19 response.
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Empowering Families: Meet Krystal Barnett, a St. Louis Mother Leading a Campaign to Ensure Every Child Has a Learning Recovery Plan
Catalyzing Innovation: The Opportunity Trust Helps Launch Virtual Network of Best-in-Class Innovators in the Midst of COVID
Increasing Access: Blending Online and In-Person Engagement, Navigate STL Schools Reaches Nearly 8,000 Families In Its First Enrollment Campaign
The world’s economy and job markets are changing, and St. Louis is not keeping up. Many of our schools are struggling to prepare children with the basic skills required. Existing approaches to solving regional problems are not yielding the results we need.
It’s time to chart a new path forward.
At The Opportunity Trust we are working to ensure that every child in St. Louis is prepared to lead a life of choice and dignity.
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Reimagining School: Investments in New School Models Bring St. Louis to the National Forefront
Remote learning has exposed the ways that traditional school models are failing to meet the needs of children today. While the format of school has moved online, the content has remained...
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Applications for the 2021-2022 school year open as early as October 1 of this year.
Increasing Access
Watch KMOV's interview with Anna-Stacia Allen, Executive Director of Navigate STL Schools, to learn more about how they're supporting families through the school search process
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Empowering Families: Meet Krystal Barnett, a St. Louis Mother Leading a Campaign to Ensure Every Child Has a Learning Recovery Plan
Krystal Barnett launched Bridge 2 Hope in 2019 to unite parents and grandparents exasperated by the lack of quality school options to demand responsiveness from school system leaders. The young organization,...
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In St. Louis, majority White school districts receive an average of $1,698 more in funding per student than majority Black school districts.
Reimagining Education
Still Separate, Still Unequal
Explore Forward Through Ferguson's released a new community accountability and advocacy tool that examines these inequities and serves as a call to level the education playing field in St. Louis.
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Advocating for Change: An Interview with the Chair of Missouri’s Senate Education Committee
In February 2020, Senator Cindy O’Laughlin from District 18 covering 14 counties in the northeastern part of the state was named Chair of the Missouri Senate Education Committee. As a senator,...
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