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Parent & Community Resources

12.16.2012.16.20

Increasing Access: Blending Online and In-Person Engagement, Navigate STL Schools Reaches Nearly 8,000 Families In Its First Enrollment Campaign

With school schedules and enrollment timelines in flux, families are faced with even greater barriers to finding the best school for their children. Many of...

Parent & Community Resources

12.14.2012.17.20

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...

Teachers & School Leaders

12.10.2012.16.20

Catalyzing Innovation: The Opportunity Trust Helps Launch Virtual Network of Best-in-Class Innovators in the Midst of COVID

In the pursuit of creating something unprecedented, it is easy to run up against the limitations of our own perspective. Nowhere is this more apparent...

Schools & Districts

12.10.203.4.21

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...

Teachers & School Leaders

10.22.20

St. Louis Teacher Residency Helps Teachers Thrive in High-needs Classrooms

The St. Louis Teacher Residency, a partner of The Opportunity Trust, was recently highlighted by Washington University for its innovative approach to improving local teacher...

Teachers & School Leaders

10.16.2010.1.21

Welcome to the 2020-2021 Catalyst Fellowship Cohort

The Opportunity Trust is pleased to announce the nine outstanding education leaders chosen for our fourth Catalyst Fellowship cohort. Catalyst Fellows are educators and entrepreneurs...

Research, Learning, & Policy

8.3.208.7.20

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...

Parent & Community Resources

8.3.208.6.20

Empowering Families: Parent Voices Catalyze a New Organization Helping to Evaluate School Options

The city’s history of segregation and subsequent attempts to integrate schools have left St. Louis with a fractured school landscape full of options but lacking in...

Schools & Districts

8.3.208.6.20

Catalyzing Innovation: How the STL Pre-K Cooperative is Increasing Access to High-Quality Early Childhood Education

Decades of research point to the importance of high-quality pre-K, but St. Louis children and families struggle to access high-quality early childhood education (ECE). A...

Schools & Districts

8.3.208.7.20

Transforming Systems: Normandy Schools Collaborative’s Leadership Stewards a Bold Plan to Accelerate Learning Outcomes

Normandy’s schools have persistently ranked among the lowest performing in the state and have had an outsized impact on America’s understanding of race and public...

Teachers & School Leaders

8.3.2012.10.20

Promoting Ingenuity: Supporting Educators as they Respond, Recover and Aspire to Reinvent School

When schools suddenly closed in March, The Opportunity Trust quickly pivoted to meet the needs of students and educators by launching the Remote Learning Innovation...

Event

8.11.20 @4:00pm CST

Catalyst Fellowship Virtual Info Session

Join us on August 11 for a virtual information session to learn more about The Opportunity Trust’s Catalyst Fellowship. We are gearing up to launch...

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