Powerful Schools
Powerful Schools reduces the academic achievement gap by creating strong partnerships with public schools to help children thrive. Through literacy, arts, after-school and leadership programs, we ensure all children succeed both in and out of school.
Through partnerships with public schools and pre-schools, Powerful Schools creates opportunities for young children that they would not ordinarily have access to. We work closely with the school district, school leadership, parents/guardians, and the community to provide programs that align to the school curriculum & goals and that create vibrant learning centers.
Many of the schools that we partner with have high populations of children from low-income families and they attend schools that have access to less resources than schools with access to greater resources. Unfortunately, the great inequity in access to resources affects what schools can do on their own to serve the needs of all children and their families.