COLLABORATORS

DC VOICE is not a membership organization, but is instead a dynamic collaborative of individuals and organizations.  We define collaboration as the “coming together of parties with diverse skills and backgrounds, contributing those skills and resources in an atmosphere of trust, respect, and flexibility, in order to achieve shared goals and objectives”. 

Each year, different collaborators from three sectors: grassroots, school service providers, and policy-makers, join our ranks according to common issues and concerns.  See recent collaborator roster.  

From this base, we are building an informed activist cadre to advocate for the conditions needed for quality teaching and learning.  This cadre comes together at the Annual Collaborator Gathering, as required by the DC VOICE bylaws, to inform the Program Strategy Committee and Board on our action plan. 

Collaborators
21st Century School Fund
American Youth Policy Forum
Asian American LEAD
Board of Education
Carnegie Academy for Science Education
Center for Community Change
Center for Inspired Teaching
Center for Collaboration and the Future of Schooling
Channel 9 TV News
Coca Cola Enterprises
Consortium of Universities
Council of the Great City Schools
Covenant House
DC ACORN
DC Area Writing Project
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
DC Children’s Trust Corporation
DC Congress of Parents and Teachers
DC ED COMPACT
DC Public Charter School Association
DC Public Schools
District Council, Education, Libraries and Recreation Committee
Education Trust
Forum for Youth Investment/ Community IMPACT
Foundation for the National Capital Region Spirit of Giving Project
George Washington University Urban Initiative and School of Education
Greater Washington Urban League
Heads Up
Healthy Families/ Thriving Communities Collaborative
In2Books
Institute for Educational Leadership
Institute for the Arts in Education
Just Associates
Latin American Youth Center
LISTEN INC./ Youth Education Alliance
Martha’s Table
National Council of La Raza
New Teacher Project
Office of the Mayor
Parents United for DC Public Schools
PEPCO
Senior High Alliance of Parents and Principals and Educators
State Education Office
Teach For America
Teaching for Change
Tellin’ Stories Project
Turning the Page
UDC – Early Childhood Institute and Adult Literacy Program
Washington Teachers’ Union
Numerous Individual Education Activists City-wide