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Hillsborough Education Foundation          Issue I
February 2010
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Acronyms
Staying Connected
Gates Issue Briefings
Acronyms

Every industry has their own codes, initials, and shorthand.  Here are some definitions to help you get familiar with common ones.

BCG = Boston Consulting Group

BMGF = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

HCPS = Hillsborough County Public Schools

HEF = Hillsborough Education Foundation
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Community Engagement Group

HCPS Empowering Effective Teachers

HEF Empowering Effective Teachers

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Contact Information

Tyce Henry, BCG Consulting

Bill Hoffman, HEF


Greetings!

We appreciate your interest in the Empowering Effective Teachers initiative and the Community Engagement Group.  As we mentioned at the meeting on Monday, we look forward to continuing the dialogue on this very important initiative.  We'll continue to provide updates and information as it's available and will be asking your opinions as we go along.  We hope to help the school district garner some outside perspectives while providing you information which you can share as you're out in the community.
 
As part of our communication effort, please see two interesting Issue Briefs recently released by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  These provide some interesting insights into their goals and what they've learned just going through the proposal process with the school districts involved.
Staying Connected
We've created a webpage dedicated to the Community Engagement Group and will continuously be posting updates as available.  For example, please find the Summary of Monday's meeting on the page (as will all future meeting summaries). 

From this webpage we've also linked to the Empowering Effective Teachers webpages on the school district's website as well as the one on the Education Foundation's website.  We hope you'll find this information useful.  If you have requests of other information, let us know and we'll work to make it available.
 
Gates Foundation Issue Briefings
2010 AA Save the DateWith the two links below, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares some "lessons learned" during the proposal process which led to the award to Hillsborough County as well as three other sites.   

The first link details the characteristics that school systems must have before they can embrace bold reforms. The second outlines the strategies these sites will use to redefine the teaching profession; these differ somewhat at the 4 different grantee sites.  The BMGF compiled these lessons with the help of partnership sites and the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and Company, and the Parthenon Group.  As the BMGF shares, they are not "how to" guides on implementing effective teaching reforms. Rather, they are a set of considerations and plans that will play out over the next several years.
We will be reaching out via email roughly monthly, but will not overwhelm you unless there's something worth sending.  We anticipate the next meeting to be in mid-May and will have a date with our next email.  If at any time you don't wish to be included in the email updates or the meetings, please let us know.

And thanks again for your interest!
Sincerely,
 
Bill

Bill Hoffman
Hillsborough Education Foundation