St. Andrew's and CTTL Awarded $250,000 EE Ford Educational Leadership Grant

The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning has been doing tremendous work since it was founded in the spring of 2011. This week it was recognized when St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and The CTTL were awarded a $250,000 EE Ford Educational Leadership Grant. This $250,000 grant is the largest one the EE Ford Foundation awards and it gives out an average of only four per year to independent schools across the country.
The grant will be used by The CTTL to initiate a week-long Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy that will train hundreds of exceptional public and independent school educators in Mind, Brain and Education (MBE) Science and excite them about continuing their careers in education. The CTTL, in partnership with Johns Hopkins and Harvard University faculty, will design and deliver the week-long academy while also measuring the efficacy of the program.
 
"We are thrilled to receive the E.E. Ford Educational Leadership Grant, which affirms the distinctive strength of St. Andrew's faculty and the CTTL's success in improving teaching and learning for students here and in dozens of other schools,” said Head of School Robert Kosasky. “We are equally excited that our new Student Center will enable the CTTL to expand its research and teacher training programs, including the Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy."
 
The EE Ford Educational Leadership Grants address the question “What is the public purpose of private education?” Each year, they ask a more specific question for schools seeking a grant. This year, the question was “How might independent schools, working alone or in partnership with each other or with other organizations, better address the need to attract and retain the best teachers and administrators possible, help these individuals see for themselves a future in independent education, and support the development of the future leadership that will be critical in the years ahead?”
 
Fresh off hosting the Ideas in Education Festival this past weekend, The CTTL continues to be a national leader in utilizing MBE Science in the classroom. Educators and panelists from around the country were on campus on Saturday to identify, collaborate and exchange ideas that are currently working in classrooms and schools. St. Andrew’s students and faculty have benefitted greatly from The CTTL as has recruitment of faculty and the Academy will have the same impact on the school.
 
All EE Ford Leadership Grants are matching grants meaning St. Andrew’s will raise $350,000 from like-minded foundations and individuals to match the award. This is the fourth time St. Andrew’s has won a grant from the EE Ford Foundation, but neither of the previous two were Leadership Grants, which were first handed out in 2008. The previous times St. Andrew’s won was 1986 (professional development), 1999 (faculty laptop), and 2005 (service learning).

The first Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy will be held at
St. Andrew’s in the summer of 2017 and is scheduled to take place in the new Student Center.
 
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is a private, coeducational college preparatory day school for students in preschool (Age 2) through grade 12, located in Potomac, Maryland.