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- EIN 58-6365702
- (561) 408-0633
- 1025 W Indiantown Rd Ste 102 Jupiter FL 33458-6852 USA
- www.pewfund.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations, Human Services
Mission: To positively impact children's lives by providing access to high-quality instruction and educational enhancements. To improve public education for economically disadvantaged children in palm beach and martin counties by developing, testing and implementing new strategies for learning in classrooms, schools and neighborhoods and to support educational enrichment programs unavailable as part of the regular curriculum.
Programs: Support of the innovate extension project - $299,750currently in process of implementing year one of a project in which discovery education provides professional development in five high-poverty schools to assist teachers in grades k-5 create innovative, transdisciplinary, literacy-rich and hands-on learning classroom environments
preventing the summer reading slide - $227,687high-poverty public schools received grants of up to $10,000 to assist in addressing the summer reading slide by providing access to print rich environments. Children were provided with up to ten self-selected "just right" books to read over the summer. Most schools offered opportunities for the children to exchange books over summer months. Schools within walking distance opened their media centers for book checkout and exchange during the week. Opportunities to discuss books were offered. The original goal of this effort was to help children maintain their reading levels. A florida atlantic university evaluation of the sy16-17 summer slide grantees reports that 87% of the students who had the opportunity to select up to ten high-interest, "just right" books to read over the summer either increased or did not change their independent reading score when returning to school in august 2017.
supporting efforts to expand inquiry problem-based solutions - $95,937three high poverty elementary schools received support to increase student achievement across content areas through a variety of project, problem and inquiry-based learning activities and professional development opportunities. The goal is to build capacity among faculty so that a comprehensive approach to stem instruction through pbl becomes the school culture for teaching and learning.