For Educators

The need for the fhi award Across Florida, exceptional elementary schools are quietly achieving remarkable results — accelerating student growth year after year in the critical early grades. Yet these schools remain hidden in plain sight. Their transformative work goes unrecognized. Their proven strategies remain untapped. This is a massive missed opportunity for Florida’s education system. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Only half of Florida’s incoming kindergarteners are sc

Florida's education system has been a national model for innovation and accountability since the adoption of the A+ Plan 25 years ago. However, one glaring gap remains in how Florida measures and supports student achievement: the critical early elementary years, kindergarten through second grade. Florida’s accountability system does not measure student performance until the third grade and learning gains are not measured until the fourth grade. Because of this gap, student ga

At 6 PM on a Tuesday, Maria Santos is helping her third-grader with math homework at their kitchen table while dinner simmers on the...

the challenge we're solving Why should Florida's most exceptional third-grade math teacher reach only 18 students when her impact could...