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Big Ideas Retreat 2011
August 8-10, 2011 | Queenstown, MD
Aspen Wye River Conference Center
Big Ideas Retreat 2012
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Big Ideas Retreat 2014
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Big Ideas Retreat 2015
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Collective Capacity
Collectively, Alliance members form a dynamic and powerful community of researchers, educational developers, service providers, and entrepreneurs who are addressing the most urgent education problems in the U.S. and abroad.
Essential Capabilities for Transforming Education
Alliance member organizations are national leaders in education. They have the essential capabilities to transform educational practices and tools. They conduct research, develop quality education tools, and provide vital technical assistance and professional development services. Alliance members have extensive dissemination activities efforts directed at educators and policy makers. Many of the members also conduct experimental/quasi-experimental research, and provide policy analysis services.
Expertise in Every Critical Education Issue
Alliance members conduct work in nearly 50 topical areas spanning the education spectrum from early childhood to post-secondary education. The area in which most of the members conduct work is school reform and in areas emphasized by No Child Left Behind – teacher quality, accountability, educational standards, data-based decision making, and reading. Among the other topical areas in which members work are after-school, charter schools, curriculum, English language learners, gifted and talented, math/science, leadership, rural education, school safety, and technology.
Capacity for Powerful & Scalable Effect
Revenue for Alliance members totaled over $4 Billion in 2010. Collectively, they employ thousands of the nation’s top researchers, developers, trainers, and analysts.
Nationwide Reach to Every School in Every State
The reach of Alliance members extends to every school in each of the nation’s 15,000 school districts.
Extensive Experience Abroad
In recent years, Alliance members have also provided services to over 100 foreign nations including Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Senegal, Tanzania, Thailand, Yemen, and Zambia.
Dynamic Vision for a Changing World
Alliance members continually refine and build new capacities to help meet the needs of educators and policy makers. Among the capacity areas most frequently cited for development are experimental/quasi-experimental research and evaluation; professional development; consultative services/technical assistance; policy analysis and assessment; and evaluation.