Annual Report
The San Francisco Education Fund approached me to help them with an annual report featuring stories about the impact of their programming. I interviewed teachers, volunteers, community members, and families to produce a readable, engaging account of the Ed Fund’s essential role in supporting families, schools, and other city organizations during an exceptionally challenging year.
“We were thrilled to work with Matri on this year's Annual Report. Matri was thoughtful and comprehensive in her approach to interviewing our constituents to tell the story of the Ed Fund's impact. She has a beautifully efficient and clear style of writing that makes her pieces a joy to read!” ~Rebecca Kroll, Director of Talent and Operations at San Francisco Education Fund
Case Study
The Right Question Institute works to build a more just and equitable democracy by strengthening people’s ability to ask questions and participate in decisions that affect them. They asked me to create a series of case studies for a professional learning course they offer for teachers with the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The case studies I wrote offer models for how educators in different positions (from a classroom teacher to a regional instructional coach) can scale and sustain a larger culture of questioning in their school or organization.
Impact Report
Systems change takes time. TREE: Transforming Rural Experience in Education (now called Trauma Responsive Equitable Education) is a whole-child, trauma-informed program of Cobscook Institute, based in a rural, high-poverty county in Downeast Maine.
For this project, I interviewed students, teachers, administrators, and staff benefitting from TREE supports and presented their stories along with a summary of the research data.
Prospectus
Cobscook Institute is a vital educational hub in one of the most rural counties in Maine, the most rural state in the U.S. They set out to address deep-seated inequities in academic attainment in the region with a groundbreaking, community approach to healing trauma by supporting students, teachers, administrators, and families.
I wrote this prospectus to kick off a successful $5 million campaign to fund the pilot program.
Web profile
The National Writing Project’s national network of teacher-leaders has been working since 1974 to ensure that every student has a place in a democratic conversation of active readers, writers, thinkers, and citizens.
Aeriale Johnson is associate director for the San Jose Area Writing Project, and publishes a blog, Kinderbender, full of insights from her 23 years of teaching. Her teaching methods are rooted in antiracism and a passionate belief in her students’ intelligence and their right to express themselves freely.