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All Points North Foundation Announcement
All Points North Foundation is one of the few foundations focused on public middle-school education (grades 6-8) in underserved communities (both rural and urban). The foundation recognizes the vital importance of the middle-school years in shaping the future of our...
GRP1 Announcement
GRP1 is a clothing company featured in 27 stores across the country and committed to comfort, elegance, and responsible production: We believe that we have an obligation to adhere to more responsible methods of production. As such, GRP1 has based our enterprise in...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announcement
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s K-12 Education strategy is to support educators and district leaders in K-12 public schools in their work to improve student outcomes for Black, Latino, and students experiencing poverty. Breakthrough has received a grant...
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies Announcement
As part of its education strategy, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies invest in organizations that are building an equitable society in which Black and Latinx students from low-income backgrounds are able to access a high-quality, culturally relevant...
Summer 2021: Breaking Barriers Through Virtual, Hybrid & In-Person Learning
With the new school year upon us, we look back at this summer with pride and exultation for the Breakthrough affiliates around the country who filled their summer programs with learning, growth, and incredible Breakthrough spirit! Despite the unparalleled obstacles...
Celebrating Summer Learning Week!
#SummerLearningWeek this year has been filled with joy and accelerated learning for thousands of Breakthrough students and Teaching Fellows across the country! We are honored to be part of the national effort to make this a special summer after a challenging school...
Teaching Fellow Alumni Spotlight: Jasmine Lane
"Breakthrough changed my life. Breakthrough is the reason I am a teacher today." - Jasmine Lane Growing up in the Twin Cities area, Jasmine Lane was a first-generation college student. When she joined Breakthrough as a teaching fellow and started speaking to her...
Podcast: Lessons in Adolescence
Join us in celebrating the release of part 1 of Lessons in Adolescence podcast. This episode features a conversation with three leaders of the Breakthrough Collaborative on the importance of student/teacher relationships in the Breakthrough community, exploring the...
Breakthrough Stands with the AAPI Community
Thank you to our Breakthrough Greater Boston colleagues and national team members for sharing the resource list below: Learning Resources Learning for Justice: Responding to Anti-Asian Violence and Georgia Shootings Learning for Justice: Addressing Anti-Asian Bias ...
Breakthrough’s scalable solution to pandemic learning loss: College Students stepping in as Teaching Fellows
Timely reflections from Breakthrough Collaborative's National CEO Elissa Vanaver Read insights from our newly-released White Paper titled INSPIRING STUDENTS, DEVELOPING TEACHERS: How a Corps of College Students Closes Opportunity Gaps & Diversifies the Teacher...
Miami Herald Op-ed Feature: Breakthrough’s college corps closing pandemic learning gaps for vulnerable students | Opinion
NOTE: This article was originally posted on the MiamiHerald.com on Monday, August 24, 2020 Read original article here. By: Elissa Vanaver, CEO of The Breakthrough Collaborative Even the most cautious medical experts foresee the day when the COVID-19...
Breakthrough’s Purposeful Pivot to Virtual Summer Programming
Breakthrough’s Purposeful Pivot: How we're shifting in-person programs to "virtual," and learning with thousands of students this summer “We’re excited that Breakthrough programs already underway are seeing up to 93% of their middle-school students engage. Only by...
