Building Better Teachers

The Curry School of Education is poised to transform education across the nation by improving the effectiveness of current teachers with proven professional development tools and by radically changing the way new teachers are prepared for the classroom.

Funding Opportunities

Transform K-12 Education

• $10 million per district – Will allow us to implement our teacher professional development model in five high-need urban school districts over a three-year period. By building better teachers in locations where the need is greatest, we’ll provide further evidence for the effectiveness of our approach and be positioned to replicate it nationwide.

Transform Teacher Education

• $10 million – The Curry School’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) has already created and tested an approach to improving the skills of practicing classroom teachers. Using this approach, we now know how to build a competency-based teacher education program. We seek funding to redesign the teacher education program in concert with four to six other top schools of education with whom we will develop a replicable and effective approach for training teachers.

Transform Early Childhood Education

• $15 million – Will bring our proven professional development tools to all 50,000 Head Start preschool classrooms nationwide. Building better early childhood teachers in Head Start means our nation’s neediest children will receive the support they need for a successful academic future.