Center for the Collaborative Classroom

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alameda, CA, USA
Website: 
collaborativeclassroom.org
Size: 
51-200 employees
Founded: 
1980
Annual Budget : 
$10-50M
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Populations Served: 
Children and Youth
About Us
Mission: 

Collaborative Classroom is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization committed to ensuring that students have the opportunity to become highly literate critical thinkers, appreciate others' ideas and opinions, learn to agree and disagree respectfully, and think critically about big ideas. Our programs are used in 80,000 classrooms across the country impacting the lives of over 2 million students daily, raising student grades and test scores, building relationships, and bolstering student and teacher engagement.

Programs: 

Making Meaning provides a full year of research-based, whole-class reading and vocabulary instruction for grades K–6 teaching students comprehension and self-monitoring strategies proficient readers use.

Being a Reader: research-based early reading curriculum for grades K-2 designed to teach foundational skills and systematically develops early reading competencies and comprehension.

Being a Writer: provides a full year of research-based whole-class writing instruction for grades K–6. teaching the writing process while developing intrinsic motivation for the craft of writing.

SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words): a research-based decoding intervention program proven to help new or struggling readers in grades K–12 build skills and confidence for fluent, independent reading. 

Book Clubs: Utilizing research-based best practices for small-group reading, Book Clubs provides the foundational lessons for setting up independent, student-led book clubs and a variety of mini-lessons that support and deepen book discussions.

Why Work For Us?: 

Collaborative Classroom is committed to our continued culture-based programs related to diversity and belonging as well as to promoting systemic and behavioral actions and changes that increase Diversity and Inclusivity (D&I).  Our mission to continue its on-going work around a company-wide D&I strategy will include partnering closely with internal departments and external community partners.

industry: 
Nonprofit