Our Community Programs
Nike School Innovation Fund
Portland Public Schools
Kindergarten Academy – $250,000
The academy will give select kindergarten students the opportunity to attend an additional five weeks of instruction during the summer between kindergarten and first grade. This will ensure that each child is in the best position to excel when entering first grade.
Elementary and Middle Schools: Leadership Teams – $500,000
This initiative will create and support leadership teams at select elementary and middle schools. It will develop and implement coaching practices that focus on high quality instruction, ensuring the success of every student.
High Schools: School Business Managers – $250,000
This program will help high school principals by supporting a pilot project to recruit and train school business managers. It will give principals more time to focus on educational leadership, support, and mentoring rather than administrative and operational issues.
Beaverton School District
Leadership Academy: $350,000
This initiative will create three programs that provide leadership development for master teachers, aspiring principals/administrators as well as support for new principals.
Teacher Leader Program
Select teachers will participate in a year-long professional development course. It will help create a network of expert peer mentors and coaches who can enhance teacher effectiveness and impact achievement for all students.Aspiring Principals/Administrator Program
With a focus on increasing diversity among district principals and administrators, select teachers will participate in a two-year program. Through in-depth mentoring and interactive training, this program will prepare them for transformational leadership in Beaverton schools.First Years Support Program
To build a foundation for higher learning and student achievement, new principals/administrators will receive one-on-one coaching, monthly leadership development workshops as well as technical assistance.
Kindergarten Summer School: $50,000
This initiative is inspired by a Beaverton Education Foundation award which created a 2006 summer school pilot program for at-risk kindergartners. The Nike grant will create a Kindergarten Summer School that will prepare hundreds of at-risk kindergarten students for academic success in their first year of school. Each student will receive intensive intervention in critical reading, writing and math skills. With the Nike grant, five additional Kindergarten Summer School sites will be opened and hundreds of children will have the opportunity to enter Kindergarten with a greater ability to succeed in school.
Hillsboro School District
Primary Years Literacy Initiative
This initiative will create reading enrichment programs for students at seven schools identified for additional support. Programs will include: a four-week summer literacy academy for incoming kindergartners and first-graders, as well as after-school and Saturday-school enrichment programs for students needing additional support in the primary grades.
Sustainable Leadership
This initiative will create a Leadership Academy that will support ongoing efforts to provide deep and sustainable professional development for principals, aspiring administrators and key teacher leaders.
