Recent Projects
The NUA has had a broad impact on schools across the nation:
Newark Public Schools, NJ – High Schools
—NUA Newark Blog about the collaboration
The National Urban Alliance (NUA) and Newark Public Schools (NPS) recently collaborated on professional leadership and teacher development, and with amplifying student voice for the majority of NPS high schools. This included virtually with COVID. The NUA Pedagogy of Confidence© (POC) is rooted in equity consciousness, an end to systemic racism, quality education for all students and sustaining the actions of change. The current NUA/NPS collaboration builds on prior collaborations with consistent emphasis on student engagement for equity consciousness at both the high school and elementary school levels. The current collaboration focuses on the professional development of educators, leadership sessions with principals, leadership sessions with department heads/coaches, and amplifying student voice.
New York City, NY
With funding from the Obama “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, the NUA and 4 high schools in New York City’s Districts 8, 10, and 11 are partnering on a series of 8 monthly workshops focusing on improving instruction through a focus on building community, developing collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity.
Project REDO
The Rural Endorsement and Development Opportunities (REDO)/National Urban Alliance (NUA) Collaborative Partnership is a 5-year project through a federally funded grant. Two different cohorts of educators participate each year in Project REDO, The Bilingual Cohort and the English as a New Language Cohort.
Read more about Project REDO
Roseville, MN
We are working to improve learning and teaching for students and the teachers that serve them, as well as addressing equity through culturally responsive pedagogy informed by neuroscience.
South Orangetown, NY
We are working to improve learning and teaching for students and the teachers that serve them, as well as addressing equity through culturally responsive pedagogy informed by neuroscience.
St. Cloud, MN
We are working to improve learning and teaching for students and the teachers that serve them, as well as addressing equity through culturally responsive pedagogy informed by neuroscience.
Previous Collaborations
Over the years, the National Urban Alliance has had a presence in many school districts; previous NUA District Partnerships have included: Albany, NY; Barberton, OH; Beacon, NY; Birmingham, AL; Brentwood, NY; Charles County, MD; Chicago, IL; Dayton, OH; Detroit, MI; East Allen , IN; Elizabeth, NJ; Freeport, IL; Hamden, CT; Indian River, DE; Indianapolis, IN; Kansas City, MS; Los Angeles, CA; Milwaukee, WI; Mount Vernon, NY; Newark, NJ; New York City Districts 4, 5, 9, 13; New York City, NY; Orange County, FL; Philadelphia, PA; Prince George’s County, MD; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; South Huntington, NY; St Louis, MO; Stamford, CT; Washington, DC; Wyandanch, NY.
Albany, NY (Past Project)
The NUA worked with all the schools for three years. Under the leadership of a dynamic Superintendent school improvement showed tangible gains.
Buffalo, NY (Past Project)
In the three year NUA/Buffalo City Schools Partnership, in collaboration with Canisius College, NUA interacted with the district in the areas of professional development and experienced tangible achievement gains; the two standard deviations gain in School 61 were the highest historic gains of any school in Buffalo.
East Allen, IN (Past Project)
As reported in local media, the NUA worked with great acclaim regarding a shift in belief systems, where teachers began to believe in the capacity of all children to succeed over the three years of the project.
Indianapolis, IN (Past Project)
The National Urban Alliance worked with all 76 schools in Indianapolis over an 8 year period. As a result, several failing schools became blue ribbon schools.
San Francisco, CA (Past Project)
For two years ten San Francisco schools worked with the NUA. George Washington High School saw two standard deviations of improvement from the norm after working with the NUA. Visitacion Valley Middle School had a 21% improvement under the leadership of the school team, and saw 2 standard deviations have improvement (case studies here and here).
Seattle, WA (Past Project)
For 6 years the NUA worked with all 100 schools in Seattle. As a result, Seattle is now one of the highest performing districts in the nation.
WMEP, MN (Past Project)
The West Metro Education Program/NUA (WMEP/NUA) Partnership was a unique collaboration of urban and suburban school districts in the Minneapolis area. Our work with WMEP on issues of equity and neuroscience was brought to bear in all of the WMEP districts over a 10 year period.