Teacher Fellow Applications Now Available
Newark public and public school teachers, we want you to hear this: applications for the 2009 Dodge Foundation Teacher Fellowships are now available. These awards will provide up to $7,500 in...
View ArticleHow Newark Is Reaching Out To Its Youth
As the Dodge Foundation shifts its focus this time of year to our Education grants, Education Program Director Ross Danis notes the work of an organization in Newark helping young people succeed, even...
View ArticleDodge Teacher Fellows Discover Japan
More education news from Program Director Ross Danis: The Dodge Foundation Teacher Fellowships are based on the idea that great teachers are interesting and interested people. We help support the...
View ArticleFollowing the Abbott v. Burke Remand Trial
Education news from Program Director Ross Danis: In a unanimous opinion issued on November 18, 2009, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered a remand in the landmark Abbott v. Burke case in order to fully...
View ArticleAn Alternate Route to Alternate Route
Ross Danis, Program Director, Education If there is a silver thread in this dark economic cloud, it is the potential to raise the number and the quality of teachers working in high need disciplines...
View ArticleClosing the Creativity Gap
Ross Danis, Program Director, Education You may hear the mention of a number of “gaps” when people are talking about education: the achievement gap between various income groups and races; the gap in...
View ArticleThe Case for Being Mindless
Ross Danis, Program Director, Education So much of our culture supports being “mindful.” The ability to store and quickly access information is highly prized in school and in our personal and...
View ArticleGo Fish . . . within the carrying capacity.
Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director The Dodge team is still on its summer quest for knowledge (inviting you to peer in as we peer out, particularly as we think about philanthropy and...
View ArticleWhen Little Green Guests Took Over the Office
Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate For the past few days, we have hosted these little guys at our office. Do you recognize them? That’s right! They are Monarch butterfly chrysalises. At some point when...
View ArticleButterflies!
Three of our six butterflies emerged this morning! Here are the chrysalis pictures, in case you missed them. It is impossible to have a bad day when you have butterflies in your office. photos:...
View ArticleOur first butterfly release
Clearly, the journey of these butteryflies has captivated and inspired us. It is hard to say whose transformations are deeper (staff or butterflies)! After this morning’s “awakening,” we released our...
View ArticleAn Experience That Changes Lives
Wendy Liscow, Program Officer One warm, crystal clear morning in August, I was lacing up my hiking boots with great anticipation. Not only was I going to get to leave my more formal foundation program...
View ArticleFeeling “Blue” About Education Never Seemed So Hopeful
Michelle Knapik, Program Director, Environment You probably know about TED talks and their tagline “ideas worth spreading.” I got to spend Sunday afternoon at a live TEDx talk organized around the...
View ArticleTed Sizer’s Legacy
David Grant, President and CEO We lost a great educator last week. I suspect that many of us in the boomer generation who went into teaching paused over Ted Sizer’s obituary in The New York Times with...
View ArticleCreating Leaders…It Doesn’t Happen By Accident
Wendy Liscow, Program Officer I remember distinctly the moment I knew that the moniker “leader” could apply to me. I was a sophomore in high school, and I had signed up to help with costumes for a...
View ArticleEarthwatch Mondays: The Teacher Chronicles
We welcome you to join us for Earthwatch Mondays during the month of January. Dodge has been working with the Earthwatch Institute to offer Educator Fellowships to NJ K-12 public school teachers “so...
View ArticleEarthwatch Mondays: The Teacher Chronicles
Welcome back to our January Earthwatch Mondays series. Dodge has been working with the Earthwatch Institute to offer Educator Fellowships to New Jersey’s K-12 public school teachers “so they can...
View ArticleEarthwatch Mondays: The Teacher Chronicles
Welcome back to our January Earthwatch Mondays series. Dodge has been working with the Earthwatch Institute to offer Educator Fellowships to New Jersey’s K-12 public school teachers “so they can...
View ArticleEarthwatch Mondays: The Teacher Chronicles
Welcome to the final installment of our January Earthwatch Mondays series. Dodge has been working with the Earthwatch Institute to offer Educator Fellowships to New Jersey’s K-12 public school...
View ArticleWhat Are You For?
Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director It is easy to scan headlines, press releases and the like to see what people are against, but how often do we read statements of and perhaps even...
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