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Current Work

2008-2009 is the third year of the Ball Foundation's engagement with Rowland (CA) Unified School District.

A partnership agreement that outlines the scope of work from 2008 to 2011 was approved in September 2008.


Education Initiatives
Partnering with educators to improve student achievement and create high-performance schools

The Ball Foundation Education Initiatives (EI) is a partner in school transformation.

The Ball Foundation supports the development of high-performing schools in which all children learn at high levels regardless of race, national origin, socioeconomic status, native language and culture. Since 1999, the foundation has focused on partnerships with mid-sized urban school districts that share this vision and strive to transform themselves in order to reach it.

The Ball Foundation Education Initiatives Value Proposition
The Ball Design: Sustaining Literacy Improvement for Every Student Through Whole Systems Change

The Ball Design guides Education Initiatives (EI) as it partners with school districts to improve the literacy achievement of every student in significant and sustainable ways. Universal literacy achievement can be attained only when school districts become learning organizations capable of implementing results-oriented practices in every classroom and at all levels of the system. The Ball Design empowers EI to teach, model, and implement a whole systems change process that builds the capacity of school districts to become learning organizations that can constantly transform themselves to deliver results in the face of changing needs. Hence, the value proposition of The Ball Design, the unique and powerful added value that it offers to school districts, is “sustaining literacy improvement for every student through whole systems change."

As illustrated below, it is in the convergence and integration of efforts to improve literacy instruction and whole systems change where the value proposition of Ball EI resides.

Continue reading about our work: Ball Foundation Education Initiatives Value Proposition