Expanding Opportunity: The Leadership School Opens Its Doors
Seven-year-old Shannon rested her chin on her hand and smiled as she considered what she likes best about second grade. “I like my teacher,” she...
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Improving Outcomes: Educator Fellowships Help Accelerate Learning
Eighteen seventh graders at KIPP Inspire Academy took their seats as their math teacher, Devon Palmer, announced they’d spend the hour on an eighth grade unit....
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Empowering Community: Investing in Children’s Mental Health and Wellness
Fifteen initiatives supporting the mental health and wellness of children are receiving $90,000 from The Opportunity Trust’s Reinvention By Community Fund. Nonprofits and schools across...
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Reimagining High School: Creating High School Options That Meet Today’s Challenges
More than 100 trades men and women worked in choreographed effort inside the 16-story patient care tower under construction at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Jacobi Reed, a freshman...
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Sharpening talent: Aiming to improve student outcomes
The room was quiet as 20 educators worked through the mathematical word problem displayed on two large screens. Mickey Wagner, director at TNTP, walked around...
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Good news and bad news on local student performance
By Keith Williamson This opinion piece originally appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch In August, Missourians learned that student achievement declined significantly across the state...
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Increasing Transparency: Improving access to state education data
The Opportunity Trust has launched a new website that provides data-informed content about education in St. Louis and across Missouri. The site, Learning To Improve,...
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Catalyzing Change: Focusing school boards on student outcomes
A.J. Crabill introduces himself as a student outcomes evangelist. He calls out school boards for prioritizing adult interests over student learning, and coaches them to...
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Expanding Access: STL Pre-K Cooperative grows high-quality seats
The number of children attending high-quality pre-Kindergarten programs in St. Louis’s most underserved communities has grown – exponentially. The STL Pre-K Cooperative has quadrupled the...
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Reimagining Education: Transforming the student experience through Catalyst
The Opportunity Trust is excited to announce its 2022-2023 Catalyst fellows — 15 education leaders from across the St. Louis region who have begun reimagining, building,...
Parent & Community Resources
Changing Systems: Bridge 2 Hope turns parent frustration into activism
Samantha was floored. The data on the screen indicated that her youngest son was attending a failing school – when she thought it was high-performing. ...
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Ensuring Success: City Garden Montessori closes the kindergarten readiness gap
Last spring, City Garden Montessori School nearly eliminated the kindergarten readiness gap among racial and economic groups in its preschool classrooms. Eighty-four percent of Black...
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