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 About the Ellis Center for Educational Excellence
The Ellis Center for Educational Excellence was founded in 2006 with a bequest from the estate of John Ellis, a long-time ACF donor and benefactor.
The mission of the Ellis Center is to promote comprehensive education improvement at the district level in Arizona. Partnerships will be formed with select K-12 districts to plan and implement systemic reform in key areas of education practice, including the institutionalization of higher academic expectations, improved alignment of standards, curriculum and assessment, teacher training, pedagogical innovation, school leadership development, parental and community engagement, better elementary, high school and college interface, and many other components of education "systems."
The goal of the Center is to demonstrate that by inculcating both an ethic and an infrastructure of continuous improvement in district-level education operations, tangible benefits can accrue, such as enhanced student achievement, higher retention and graduation rates, more college and technical school placements, and other measures of educational efficacy.
The Ellis Center will remain highly focused in both its grant making and capacity-building interventions.
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