America Achieves selected Safal partners to be a thought partner and support them in their strategic planning work to enable large scale impact in education. America Achieves, founded by Jon Schnur, is a leading national education non-profit helping communities and states leverage policy, practice, and leadership to build high-quality educational systems.
GHCF commissioned our partner, EduStart, to research and draft this report to provide background information about the innovative blended-learning movement for the executive committee as well as for potential funders and partners. Our contribution included a section on Learning Management Systems and their impact on adaptive learning.
“To meet the needs of all students and accelerate achievement through educational innovation, the Austin Independent School District (“AISD” or “District”) and the Austin area partner public charter schools (“Charters”) have come together to share ideas, resources and infrastructure as a way to ensure that all students have viable educational options.” Austin District/Charter Compact executive [...]
GHCF asked our partner, EduStart, to conduct comprehensive research and analysis of blended learning models to inform its giving decisions. Our contributions to the project include: (1) Conducted research on Learning Management Systems and their influence on adaptive learning; (2) Contributed to a briefing paper to inform the field (3) Co-presented findings to a group [...]
Perhaps the ultimate success in education would be to have students who contribute to society, are confident in their abilities and hold their social responsibilities as a trust. Try measuring that, however. Instead, education is faced with a whole array of metrics trying to measure “Effectiveness,” none of which stand on their own as sole [...]
Teacher effectiveness, not surprisingly, starts with teachers themselves. Teaching is a skill that we all have to some extent and while degrees and certifications can help provide thresholds for competency, those credentials will never replace providing teachers support, an encouraging environment, and the right sources of motivation to continually improve at their job. As Dan [...]
The best recruiting identifies the types of candidates needed, creates desire by communicating those needs and then matches resources to opportunities. Identifying and communicating your needs is much simpler than you think. After all, that is why we have all those social media sites, jobs sites, your website and the Internet. The challenge of matching [...]
Designed & implemented college readiness program for middle schools (Challenge Network). Safal worked closely with Houston A+ as they redefined strategy and reinvented themselves as a non-profit that engaged with middle schools to enable post-secondary success. During the life of Safal’s work with the organization, Safal has designed and built many of its programs, continuously [...]
Austin ISD Charter Compact Collaborative Initiative Management “To meet the needs of all students and accelerate achievement through educational innovation, the Austin Independent School District (“AISD” or “District”) and the Austin area partner public charter schools (“Charters”) have come together to share ideas, resources and infrastructure as a way to ensure that all students have [...]
Safal Partners offers extensive experience in the design and implementation of Human Capital Management Systems (HCMS)…