Curriculum Design
Focusing on learning improves educational outcomes
Looking to create a new education program? Does that long-running program need a re-design? We will work with you to ensure your education programs best meet the evolving needs of your learners and the current moment.
Many educational materials draw from standards or content principles but often do not leverage current research about how people learn. With 20 years of research experience, the ESE Collaboratory brings meaningful learning design to your ideas, leading to materials that foster deep, long-lasting learning.
Program and Project Evaluation
The key to program success is evaluation
Evaluating your programs is the best way to know if you are meeting your organization’s mission and goals. It is also a great way to demonstrate successes to your members and supporters. We apply the same collaborative, co-design approach to evaluation that we use with all our services.
Grant Writing
Background Research
Grounding your ideas in research increases funding success
The ESE Collaboratory can help you win funding for your ideas. With over a decade of grant writing experience and over $2 million in successful grant proposals, we do the background research that supports your appeals for funding. The ESE Collaboratory collects data on your successes and helps you describe those successes in ways that will impress future funders. In addition, we know how to conduct and craft literature reviews that demonstrate the need for your new program or project, or for general support for your organization. As is true with all of our services, we engage in a collaborative, co-design process that works with you to develop the grant writing products you need.
Professional Development
When professional development leverages the best pedagogical practices, teaching improves.
Educators are learners. When educators are taught as learners, they understand why particular pedagogical practices work, not just how to implement them. Our professional development programs apply the latest research on pedagogy and empower educators to improve their teaching, thereby improving student learning. With over 20 years of experience teaching educators, and nearly 30 years of experience as an educator, the ESE Collabortory knows how to prepare educators for a sustainable, equitable future.
Policy Advancement
Effective policy leads to systemic change
The ESE Collaboratory has the know-how to create high-level, long-lasting change. Working directly with educators and learners is critical to tackling environmental racism in all its forms, and to bringing about individual and system-wide pro-environmental behavior change. At the same time, we need large scale changes that only policy can bring about quickly. With nearly a decade of experience working on environmental policy at the highest levels of the U.S. policy arena, The ESE Collaboratory can help your organization meet strategic, system-level changes as a tool for bringing about a sustainable, equitable future. Contact us to start a conversation about how we can co-create a policy landscape the centers people of color and environmental sustainability simultaneously.