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A note from SCE Chairman, Susan Crown
At SCE we are keenly interested in learning about learning. Our new SEL initiative is an effort to better understand the non-cognitive skills—grit, resilience, and agency- that fortify and sustain us through challenges, and keep us ...
Social and Emotional Learning: Elevating “EQ”
At SCE, we are investing considerable time growing our Social and Emotional Learning Program (SEL), a portfolio of initiatives aimed at shaping ecosystems that broaden and enrich opportunities for learning beyond academics and outside school walls. The SEL ...
Digital Learning Challenge: Partner Update
Last year, SCE launched a challenge initiative to identify and partner with organizations working to increase access to the most engaging, educationally effective digital learning media, particularly for underserved populations. We were thrilled by the response ...
SCE’s Digital Learning Challenge: What Happened, What We Learned
The Challenge didn’t start with a Challenge. It began with a question: Why isn’t the best stuff getting to the most kids? And by “stuff,” we meant “digital learning media.” During late 2011 and early 2012, ...
Announcing the Digital Learning Challenge Winners
We are excited to announce this year’s Digital Learning Challenge partners: CFY and Ednovo! CFY will use the SCE Challenge grant to enhance the user experience of PowerMyLearning, its platform that aggregates the most effective digital ...
Education for Life & Work
SCE was one of a group of foundations that supported a new National Research Council report called: “Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century.” The report was a rigorous, ...
An Education Ratings System for Children’s Media
Learn more about out SCE’s partnership with Common Sense Media: a system that rates the learning potential of digital media products http://www.commonsensemedia.org/learning-ratings The astonishing amount of time children spend engaged with digital media led CSM to create ...
Why Digital Learning Testing & Evaluation are Broken
Welcome to the fourth in a series on why the digital learning media market is broken. (For an introduction, and links to the rest of the posts, click here.) Today, we’re talking about testing and evaluation—what, in ...