Invest in Educator Quality

Offers courses, workshops, and technical assistance in child development, health and safety, childcare business management, infection control, medication administration, first aid/CPR, DECA-based resiliency, inclusive learning environments, responsive caregiving, infant-toddler program design, and New York State child care regulations. Provides training in English and Spanish, including via video conference, and supports providers at all stages, especially home-based providers.

Provides Medication Administration Training (MAT) and assists child care providers and programs in complying with health care plan regulations for medication administration. Offers guidance on the care of mildly ill children.

Provides free access to parent education resources, including workshops, learning activities, and information on child development and child care regulations. Organized a parent support group in Central Brooklyn to help families access safe, affordable, and quality child care.

Provides full-day child care and positive early learning experiences for preschool children, supporting working families.

Offers free referrals to licensed and registered child care programs in New York City through parent counselors and an online self-service search tool. Conducts follow-up contact within one month of referral to assess service quality and identify improvements. Maintains a parent database and provides resources for updating contact information.

Used funds from FEMA/UWA to provide emergency assistance to people in need.

Sponsored Mind Power Family Services, a preventive services program for families addressing drug abuse, and other initiatives including Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Youth Programs, Head Start, Foster Care and Adoption Programs, and an Emergency Food Pantry.

Provides and accepts childcare subsidies for student-parents at Rockland Community College and for families eligible under Rockland County subsidy programs, ensuring accessible early childhood education for low-income and student families.

Provides high-quality early childhood education programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and pre-kindergarten children, serving families from Rockland Community College and the broader Rockland County community. Programs use a play-based, hands-on curriculum that supports development in language, math, social skills, and self-care, with individualized attention and daily activities including circle time, small group lessons, and learning centers.

Operates as a laboratory school for students in Teacher Education programs at Rockland Community College and nearby four-year institutions, offering supervised field experience in a model early childhood education setting to build professional capacity in future educators.

Partners with school districts, charter networks, and state and local education agencies across eight states to improve instruction, leadership, and strategy, with demonstrated results in test scores, retention rates, school climate, and leader development. Strengthened over 200 schools and impacted over 100,000 students through these partnerships.

Supports districts in aligning early-childhood programs with the Science of Early Learning to strengthen kindergarten-readiness skills in literacy and numeracy, including through professional development, instructional leader coaching, and train-the-trainer resources to improve instruction and educator retention.

Provides executive coaching to superintendents and cabinet-level leaders to develop multi-year district improvement plans using data analysis and change-management practices. Also delivers individualized coaching to principals and leadership teams through the Leader-Driven School Improvement program, which includes twice-monthly team coaching, weekly individual coaching, and cross-district convenings.

Conducts holistic school reviews using a research-backed rubric to identify priorities and actions for improving school performance. Conducted 126 reviews across 100 schools in 2023–2024, 124 reviews in 97 schools in 2022–2023, and approximately 70 reviews during 2020–2021, primarily for schools in receivership in Massachusetts.

Operates multiple fellowship programs including Teach to Lead, a multi-year program for early-career educators that builds instructional expertise and core leadership skills through cohort learning, coaching, and job-embedded practice; and Aspiring Leaders, a year-long applied program where mid-level leaders implement teacher-coaching cycles and school-improvement initiatives supported by weekly coaching and quarterly performance gates.

Trains school leaders to improve the instructional core, promote excellent teaching, and develop systems for implementing a high-quality instructional vision through structured leadership development.

Offers at least two years of post-opening support to schools to sustain implementation of their design vision, ensuring long-term fidelity to high-quality instructional and operational models.

Provides a three-year program for school leaders launching or transforming schools, supporting the development of high-quality, inclusive school models and leadership capacity. This includes incubating new charter schools, such as Arcadia Schools in Texas, as a sister organization.