As Siegel Family Endowment continues to invest in reimagining the education system, we’re supporting organizations that reconsider what should be taught in a more future-resilient and inclusive system.
For the last four years, Siegel Family Endowment has worked with Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) as it has expanded the scope, scale, and focus of its community-driven education programming.
The pandemic’s exposure of our education system’s inequities and inadequacies and has set the stage for a complete reevaluation of how we educate.
Siegel Family Endowment’s Katy Knight argues in City Limits that we cannot let the digital divide leave more of our students behind.
In 2020, SFE grantee NYC FIRST faced a challenge experienced by most organizations that provide direct services to students and young learners: how to translate highly nuanced, interactive educational programming to a remote context.
The group discussed a wide range of topics including New York City students, parents, and school communities.
We recently partnered with Creo College Prep to expand their COVID-safe pod learning program in order to reach under-resourced students, and to challenge the idea that these structures are only available to those with expansive resources at their disposal.
This discussion centered on asking why the panelists and organizations they represent choose to make computer science education a major priority in their giving.
While the upheaval of the last year has been persistent and far reaching, our years of experience navigating uncertainty have served us well, and set us up to engage with new challenges while continuing to address the long term societal changes that define our work.
Making learning an impactful experience for as many students as possible is much more than a policy issue, and has many component factors - including design.
What do architects, educators, and technologists have to teach one another about the future of learning? What do effective learning environments look like in a world that is highly technology-infused?
One of the core philosophies that I ask the members of our team to keep at the top of mind in all of our work is the belief that "context is key." In order to be the most effective thought partners and grantmakers possible, we need to fully understand the conditions and circumstances under which our grantees do their work.