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.

What's New....

The latest edition (Fall-Winter 2007) of Review, Education Initiatives' newsletter, can be found here (PDF file). It features a story from Victor Lombardi, teacher at Santana High School in the Rowland (CA) Unified School District: "Did You Drink the Kool-Aid? One Teacher's Personal Journey of Transformation."

The "Our Work" page has been updated to include graphic representations of the Ball Approach and the Education Initiatives Theory of Change (PDF files).

The Ball Foundation began two new partnerships with Allentown (PA) School District and Rowland (CA) Unified School District in Spring 2006. These two districts were chosen by the foundation in a selective process from a pool of 180 mid-sized urban school districts throughout the country.