Teachers Network Affiliate Directors Annual Meeting

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Teachers Network Affiliate Directors Annual
Meeting
New York University May 2, 2008
Strategic Philanthropy Advisors, LLC
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• Measuring Teacher Student Success
• The Funders Perspective

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• Panelists
• Julia Bator, The Heckscher Foundation for
  Children
• Cyrus Driver, The Ford Foundation
• John MacIntosh, SeaChange Capital Partners
• Moderator
• Michael Feller, Strategic Philanthropy Advisors

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Teachers Network Vision
Our leadership will empower all teachersto
transform public schools into creative learning
communitiesso every student will succeedand
contributeto the public good.
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No Child Left Behind
Teachers Network Online Survey ? Only 1 of
teachers find NCLB an effective way to
assess the quality of schools ? 69 report it
is pushing teachers out of the profession.
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Public Elementary/Secondary Education
Revenues/Expenditures 2005 2006
? Revenues 520.6 Billion 90.9 State
local government 9.1 Federal government ?
Current expenditures for day-to-day
operation of schools 449.6 Billion ? Per
pupil expenditures 9,154 25.1 increase
since FY 95 Source National Center for
Education Statistics
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Foundation Giving Trends, 2008The Foundation
Center
Total Giving 19.1 Bn 4.3 Bn for Education
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How Many Billionaires Does It Take to Fix a
School System?
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The Heckscher Foundation

• The primary aim of the Heckscher Foundation's
  grantmaking is to "level the playing field"
  for needy youth by providing access to education
  and the varied experiences that make for a
  richer, forward-reaching life.

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The Ford Foundation

• Meaningful citizenship and democratic practice
  cannot thrive without strong public schools and
  higher educational institutions that are
  accessible and equitable in providing challenging
  educational opportunities. Our work supports
  educational institutions at all levels to expand
  access, innovate in the classroom, evaluate their
  efforts and share best practices.

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SeaChange Capital Partners

• SeaChange Capital Partners seeks to enhance the
  flow of growth capital from wealthy donors to
  select high-performing nonprofits. We will do so
  in collaboration with foundations, venture
  philanthropy firms, and others, and contribute to
  the vital long-term effort of creating more
  efficient financial capital markets for the
  social sector.

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Goals for Today

• ? Gain a better understanding of program
  evaluation metrics of traditional funders and of
  social entrepreneur investors.
• ? Examine the perspectives of funders as well as
  fund- seekers on metrics, such as growth
  metrics and impact metrics.
• ? Generate ideas on how to measure teacher and
  student success/creativity beyond quantitative
  test scores, with additional focus on teacher
  quality, teacher retention, student learning
  (i.e. how do funders look for/measure success in
  these arenas?)
• ? Generate ideas on how to sell creativity as
  a metric and how to transform schools into
  creative learning environments.