Opportunity Matters – IDRA Annual Report 2009-10

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IDRA’s annual report tells stories of how we incorporated the Quality Schools Action Framework throughout our work. Using this model, and with the support of key partners, IDRA was able to…

• Create new knowledge to inform policy and practice,
• Support advocacy organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border,
• Catalyze cross-race leadership for equal educational opportunity in the South and Southwest,
• Build school capacity to engage parents,
• Secure equal rights and civil rights in public education nationally and in a five-state region,
• Tap parent leadership for school success,
• Strengthen school holding power in the United States and Brazil ,
• Seed the future of early education,
• Transform teaching and learning in science and mathematics in diverse schools,
• Redesign teacher preparation for a new Texas , and
• Strengthen youth voice and leadership to transform schools.

We are grateful to all who share a commitment to creating excellent schools for all children!