Pearson Foundation

The Pearson Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Pearson PLC, one of the world's leading media and education companies. The Pearson Foundation extends Pearson's commitment to education by partnering with leading nonprofit, civic, and business organizations to provide financial, organizational, and publishing assistance across the globe. It has served as a critical partner to the NEA Foundation in moving forward 21st Century learning skills development in several NEA schools and communities through joint funding of Digital Arts Alliance projects (student scripted and produced videos).

Website: http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/

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University of Connecticut

NEA Foundation is partnering with the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education to fund and run the research component of the Connecticut Alliance for CommPACT Schools, a collaboration of six state educational organizations to help the state’s most challenged public schools close the achievement gaps by placing educators at the center of reform.

The NEA Foundation, the Neag team, and their local and state partners have been providing extensive support within and across the CommPACT network through research, assessments, and professional development for teachers.

Website : http://www.education.uconn.edu/research/commpact/

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The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

This project began in 1998 as a partnership among a faith based community organizing group, a local teachers union, and a school district in an effort to address the cycle of blame between parents and site personnel at several Sacramento schools. It has blossomed into a nationally recognized parent engagement model especially where there is a pervasive history of low student achievement, high levels of poverty, and where high percentages of children enter school as English learners. Parent Teacher home visits are currently being implemented with support from the NEA Foundation in Seattle Public Schools as a participant in the NEA Foundation's Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative.

Website: http://www.pthvp.org/

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education

An important resource used by the NEA Foundation to inform its Theory of Change for closing the achievement gaps, NCPIE's mission is to advocate for the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all of the nation's young people. The group monitors legislation, initiates projects, and shares information and ideas about relevant research, programs, and policies.

Website: http://www.ncpie.org/

Center for Teaching Quality

The Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) seeks to improve student learning and advance the teaching profession by cultivating teacher leadership, conducting timely research, and crafting smart policy — all in an effort to ensure that every student in America has a qualified, well-supported and effective teacher. CTQ has been a critical partner in helping the NEA Foundation to shape a coherent vision for teaching capacity building in all of its funded Closing the Achievement Gaps sites.

Website: http://www.teachingquality.org/

National Commission on Teaching and America's Future

For more than a decade, NCTAF has been a leading voice on what matters most for student learning: quality teaching in schools organized for success. NCTAF calls on policymakers and education leaders to provide every child in America with 21st century teaching. With support from the NEA Foundation, NCTAF prepared the 2007 report "Reducing the Achievement Gap through District/Union Collaboration: The Tale of Two Districts." This report features key lessons generated by the NEA Foundation Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative in Hamilton County TN.

Website: http://www.nctaf.org/