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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...

Event

6.5.20 @2:00pm-3:00pm

Recovery to Reinvention

Recovery to Reinvention: A Discussion with Transcend About How To Effectively Resume School This Fall Join us for an hour-long discussion via Zoom with Sujata...

Teachers & School Leaders

5.6.2010.16.20

Promoting Ingenuity: An Update on the Remote Learning Innovation Fund

By Eric Scroggins In response to school closures due to the coronavirus, we launched the Remote Learning Innovation Fund to help ensure all children in...

Uncategorized

3.16.205.6.20

Resources for Remote Teaching and Learning

Last Updated April 13 It has been about a month since schools in St. Louis closed their doors and began to move to a remote...

Schools & Districts

2.13.202.24.20

Transforming Systems: How the Normandy Schools Collaborative is Using Data to Accelerate Change

Five years ago, the Normandy School District lost its accreditation, which triggered Missouri’s transfer law allowing families to move to an accredited district. The district...

Schools & Districts

1.18.202.26.20

Catalyzing Innovation: How City Garden and Kairos Academy are Reimagining School

Every parent knows that what one child needs to thrive might be different from another. This belief drives The Opportunity Trust’s investments to develop innovative...

Research, Learning, & Policy

1.18.202.24.20

Creating Better Measures: Partnering with Schools to Assess and Improve Social-Emotional Learning

We spent nearly a year meeting with families and educators to hear what they wanted and needed from schools to set children up for success....

Parent & Community Resources

1.18.202.24.20

Empowering Families: How WEPOWER is Building Parent Capacity to Lead Change

We believe every parent or guardian wants the best for the children in their care. However, families in St. Louis are often held back by...

Teachers & School Leaders

1.18.203.20.20

Developing Leaders: Meet Three New Leaders Committed to Bold Change in St. Louis

In education, as in any sector, talent and leadership are paramount. The Opportunity Trust is focused on developing local talent pipelines and recruiting national talent...

Research, Learning, & Policy

5.15.192.24.20

Why The Opportunity Trust for St. Louis?

Listen as Founder and CEO Eric Scroggins describes the need for The Opportunity Trust and the potential we have to change the course of history...

Schools & Districts

3.15.193.2.20

Bridging Divides: Building The Community Lab School Model

Genevieve Backer and Colby Heckendorn, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at The Opportunity Trust, believe passionately that education is the key to unlocking the future of St. Louis. But...

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