Chronic absenteeism, defined as missing 10 percent or more of the school year, was already a challenge before the pandemic. In the years since, absenteeism rates have skyrocketed, with serious consequences for students’ academic achievement and social-emotional development. Our team continues to invest in research and innovations to address this growing absenteeism crisis. Anu Malipatil, vice president at Overdeck Family Foundation, sat down with Inside Philanthropy to discuss our grantmaking in this space. “We see chronic absenteeism as an issue that stretches across all of our foundation’s grantmaking areas, and impacts our grantees’ work throughout the Pre-K-12 education sector. We landed on this strategy because we realized that it doesn’t really matter how effective an intervention is at improving outcomes if a child isn’t at school to receive it.”
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Overdeck Family Foundation was founded in 2011 by John and Laura Overdeck with the goal of providing all children the opportunity to unlock their potential. We focus exclusively on enhancing education, funding efforts both inside and outside of school in the areas of early childhood, hands-on STEM education, and K-9 programs that include supporting educators and student-centered learning environments. Our grantmaking and strategic support focus on unlocking innovation, evidence, and growth opportunities for organizations and researchers that are committed to accelerating key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children. We fund both direct impact organizations and ecosystem efforts that clear the path to scale for our grantees and the work that they do.
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Afterschool, vacation, and summer programs were key beneficiaries of federal stimulus dollars. But the expiration of ESSER funds means these types of programs may be first on the chopping block for district spending. In a new op-ed, Emma Banay, manager of the Inspired Minds portfolio, points to the important role high-quality out-of-school-time programs play in children's holistic development. “What’s really special about them isn’t just the opportunity to improve academic skills. It’s that they are — simply put — fun.” Programs from grantees including FIRST, DiscoverE, Learn Fresh, National Inventors Hall of Fame, and National 4-H Council provide academic benefits while also supporting children’s social-emotional development, such as improved interpersonal skills and stronger peer-to-peer and peer-to-adult relationships. That makes them particularly important now. Read more in The 74 Media.
Perspectives: ESSER Deadline Puts Out-of-School Programs on the Chopping Block. That’s a Shame
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In Q3 2024, our foundation awarded 69 grants totaling over $16.5 million. On our blog, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter. cc: Afterschool Alliance, Ampact, Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab | The University of Chicago, BioBus, Challenger Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Click2Science, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, DiscoverE, Edtech Insiders, FIRST, Fishtank Learning, Imagine Science, Institute for Child Success, Khan Academy, National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), National Museum of Mathematics, National Summer Learning Association, PBS SoCal , Public Impact, Education Consultants, Raising a Reader, RAND, Reach Out and Read, Saga Education, Science Buddies, Springboard Collaborative, Teach Plus, Texas Tech University, The Los Angeles Trust for Children's Health, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, WestEd
Overdeck Family Foundation Awards $16.5 Million in Grants in Q3 2024
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Flexible, team-oriented school staffing models—like our grantees Public Impact, Education Consultants’ Opportunity Culture initiative and Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s Next Education Workforce—disrupt the traditional “one-teacher, one-classroom” approach, with benefits for both students and educators. “A student might spend some time receiving direct instruction from a master teacher, then work in small groups, or practice a skill by themselves,” explains Chad Aldeman. “From a teacher’s perspective, the teams replace isolation with collaboration and make the job more sustainable. Team members work together to identify student needs and plan instruction. This approach helps beginners transition into the classroom and gives team members time to compare notes, which can also help if the district is pursuing some large initiative such as adopting a new curriculum."
How Team-Based Teaching Can Support Student Learning and Reduce Teacher Burnout
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Since late 2022, my team at Overdeck Family Foundation has intentionally focused on exploring the potential of genAI to advance our mission. We’ve been closely monitoring the latest research, our grantees’ experiences, and activity and trends we’re seeing across the broader tech and education landscapes to inform our strategy for genAI investments. Over the last two years, we’ve made over $13 million in commitments across 16 grants with the primary purpose of building, scaling, or learning about AI-powered interventions. During that time, we’ve observed 20+ grantees using AI to deliver better, more cost-effective solutions that positively impact students, teachers, and families. In a new blog post, my colleague Jonathan Sotsky details five reflections from our genAI grantmaking efforts and observations from the field.
Spotlight on Innovation: Reflections on GenAI Investments and Trends in Education
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Decades of research demonstrate the importance of family engagement—students whose families are engaged are more likely to attend school, avoid discipline problems, achieve higher levels, and graduate. Our grantee National PTA teamed up with The Johns Hopkins University to develop Family Engagement Solutions, a free online tool designed to help administrators, educators, and advocates find programs that are proven to strengthen family engagement and family-school partnerships and improve student outcomes. Explore the full hub to find impactful ways to engage families: https://lnkd.in/g_wFfV_e
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Since late 2022, our team has intentionally been exploring the potential of #genAI to advance our mission. Over the last two years, we’ve made over $13 million in commitments across 16 grants with the primary purpose of building, scaling, or learning about AI-powered interventions in Pre-K-12 education. Recently, we took stock of what we’ve learned from our grantmaking efforts and trends we’ve seen in the broader landscape to inform how we pursue genAI investments in 2025 and beyond. On our blog, Strategic Impact & Learning Director Jonathan Sotsky shares five reflections that surfaced, focused on the progress, challenges, and dynamics we’re observing through the efforts of our grantees and others in the field.
Spotlight on Innovation: Reflections on GenAI Investments and Trends in Education
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“Rapid changes in technology and the speed of adoption are far outpacing the field’s understanding of impacts on teaching and learning. Every day there is a new story about an exciting AI-related development, but given the time it takes to conduct careful evaluation, very limited evidence exists about whether any of these tools have positive benefits for students.” In a recent The 74 Media op-ed, research and impact officer Meghan McCormick examines what the research tells us about the impact of #genAI on education, and what more we need to learn.
Perspectives: Generative Artificial Intelligence May Help Teachers. Does It Work for Students?
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Only about a quarter of teachers (26 percent) think the profession has role flexibility and opportunities for growth, and 63 percent want more time to collaborate with other teachers, according to a nationally representative survey from Educators for Excellence. Strategic staffing models have the potential to make teaching more sustainable and boost student achievement. Learn more in a new resource from our grantee, the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Reimagining the Teaching Role
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In the years since the pandemic, one in four—or even more—students have been considered chronically absent, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. The problem isn’t new, but it’s getting worse, with chronic absences more than doubling in some cases since pre-pandemic years. What type of messaging helps parents understand the importance of in-person learning and commit to sending their children to school every day, or nearly every day? Our grantee Ad Council set out to answer just that. With insight from Attendance Works, the team conducted a mixed-methods research study to understand the messaging and narratives that would effectively communicate to parents why consistent in-person attendance is critical to children’s development, and encourage them to attend. Read the full report and the accompanying toolkit to see how parents view education and school attendance, and how to best develop messaging that motivates them to send their children to school.
Chronic Student Absenteeism
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