We are excited to launch our newsletter — Looking ForwARd — a peek into our recent work as an organization and a preview of what's to come. The newsletter will highlight policy updates, community initiatives and ways to get involved in our work to advance equity, innovation and opportunity in K-12 education throughout Arkansas.
Read MoreIn the spring of 2018 a local organization, the Independence County Public Education Foundation, made up of local educators, private citizens and business owners, met to make sure Independence County students would have a financial opportunity to seek higher education.
Read moreOn Friday, leaders from the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce and ForwARd Arkansas gathered in Independence County to celebrate their success in championing a new law, Act 456, the Arkansas Concurrent Challenge Scholarship.
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Jamie Rayford, Community Resource Partner in Independence County, discusses the importance of community-based partnerships in developing effective career education.
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ForwARd Arkansas, Little Rock School District and community stakeholders are reimagining Project-Based Learning (PBL) at the middle school level.
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Beginning in 2017, Springdale School District, a ForwARd Arkansas community, has placed an emphasis on creating a culture that fosters a love for reading in the community, in schools and at home.
Read MoreThis toolkit provides resources that highlight the step by step process of engaging business and community in educational philanthropy and utilizing the local non-profit infrastructure to advocate at the state level.
DownloadThis toolkit provides resources for replicating Independence County's IMPACT Education Summit. The summit had approximately 400 attendees included all stakeholders such as educators, parents, students, business leaders, state agencies, local college representatives, etc.
DownloadSchools across our state define engagement in many different ways. This resource highlights how two schools in Independence County have brokered relationships with their community to move from simply co-existing to collaborating and authentic engagement.
DownloadThe ForwARd team began the year by developing a cohesive plan and related calendar of work centered around our Communities, convenings and partnership building.
DownloadForwARd Arkansas was launched in 2014 as a public-private partnership established by the Arkansas State Board of Education, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation to increase equity and achieve increases in student achievement and economic prosperity for Arkansas.
DownloadOur vision is that every Arkansas student will graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace
DownloadForwARd lays out four major findings about the state of education in Arkansas in a 2015 report.
DownloadForwARd is committed to working with the rest of Arkansas to change these outcomes in the coming years. And the opportunity is great.
DownloadDuring the fall of 2017, ForwARd Arkansas and the Little Rock School District partnered together in order to assess the feasibility of implementing a school-community partnership model of learning among the district’s eight middle schools.
DownloadOn July 2014, WRF and WFF began a long-term partnership with the Arkansas State Board of Education to dramatically transform Arkansas’s public education system.
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