One City Schools Awarded $1million for Innovation and Commitment to Health: Wisconsin Partnership Program Will Support UW-Madison Evaluation and One City Teacher Training
Madison, WI (October 17, 2019)– One City’s early childhood focus, innovative curriculum, and two-generational model are designed to have a transformational impact on One City children and their families’ education and health, while also supporting the greater community. By partnering with early education researchers, information gathered over time can be shared with all schools in Madison, Wisconsin, and nationally.
The five-year grant, awarded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, will be used to fund the evaluation as well as support teacher training One City curriculum. Teacher training includes residencies for preschool teachers to experience the strategies of Anji Play, an internationally-recognized education program aimed at teaching our youngest children as well as for elementary school teachers to have rigorous training in EL education, a five-year training program. One City was the first school outside Mainland China to implement China, and was just accepted in February to a consortium of just 150 schools nationwide in the EL program.
Beth Graue, PhD
“I am extremely proud of this grant, and grateful to the Wisconsin Partnership Program for its commitment to unlocking educational innovations. Our ambitious effort to seed a new model of public education requires rigorous, long-term evaluation, and this grant enables that to happen,” said Kaleem Caire, Founder and CEO of One City Schools.
Principal Evaluators: Tenah Hunt, PhD, MPH and Beth Graue, PhD, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW-Madison School of Education.
From the Wisconsin Partnership Program:A grant to One City Schools supports the school’s work to advance health equity through an innovative model of early child education. One City will use the funding to develop a rigorous longitudinal evaluation of the school’s novel approach—which includes how it trains staff, engages parents and the larger community, and prepares its young children—to better illustrate how its model of early childhood education and family involvement can close educational and health gaps. Findings will be used to inform expansion of the preschool, inform the fields of early childhood education, and help support public policy and system changes around early childhood education.
About the Wisconsin Partnership Program: The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is committed to improving the health of Wisconsin residents through investments in research, education and community partnerships. The Partnership Program was established in 2004 with funds from the conversion of Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin to a for-profit corporation.To date, the Program has awarded 491 research, education and community grants totaling more than $230 million.
