Education Hub

Within the Education Hub, you will find a wide variety of resources focused on the community topic. As the platform continues to grow, resources will be added. If you have resources you believe would be helpful for the community, complete the Contact form in the Menu. Let’s grow the Grow Library together!

Why is this topic important? Providing educational opportunities to our community from cradle to career, combined with other opportunities for upward mobility, represents one of the best ways to empower people to overcome barriers they may experience.

Education Resources

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Building a Strong Foundation Through Investment in Early Learning

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This white paper outlines the needs of our community and also highlights next steps for the newly formed Early Care and Education Coalition of Vanderburgh County. Developed through community collaboration with leadership by Transform Consulting Group. Commissioned by Welborn Baptist Foundation.
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Closing the Gap – An Assessment of Indiana’s Early Learning Opportunities

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The Early Learning Access Index attempts to both qualify and quantify childcare access throughout Indiana. This method moves away from viewing access as simply a capacity supply and demand equation and layers in the additional components of quality, affordability, and choice. These four elements, viewed in context with one another, updated and analyzed annually, offer a more robust assessment of Hoosier families’ ability to access early learning opportunities that suit their needs.
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Indiana Graduates Prepared to Succeed Dashboard

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The Indiana GPS dashboard is built by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, with a focus not on punitive action, but on continuous improvement for our students. The school performance dashboard will prioritize access, elevate excellence, and empower all who support our students’ learning. Through the Indiana GPS initiative, the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) and stakeholders across the state have worked to define a set of characteristics graduates must possess to achieve lifelong success. These characteristics will be displayed through a transparent, nimble school performance dashboard to illustrate how, together, we are supporting students, starting in kindergarten, to meet those expectations.
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State of E

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For Evansville is a nonprofit organization that helps churches, nonprofits, and community leaders work together to address systemic challenges in Evansville. They have identified 5 primary areas of focus that act as a guide for pursing transformative impact together.
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