Always Learning Rhode Island is to support and advance learning for Rhode Island youth by augmenting the 180 days of the traditional school schedule to provide opportunities for year-round out-of-school learning in homes and in the community.
The Vision
Always Learning Rhode Islandis that Rhode Island will be a nationally recognized model of public education innovation which, by creating broad public consensus on the importance of out-of-school learning, will assure that Rhode Island’s educational outcomes will be among the very best in the nation by 2030.
Thanks to funding from the JetBlue Foundation in 2018, ICERM developed a train-the-trainer opportunity for nine faculty who were interested in replicating a GirlsGetMath program at their home institutions. The observational training occurred during ICERM’s summer 2019 GirlsGetMath program. The train-the-trainer participants were then given the opportunity to apply for start-up seed funds to run their own programs. Six out of the nine trainees applied for the four available seed grants. Through the seed grants, GirlsGetMath programs were held at Boston University, Colorado State University, Stonehill College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Michigan – Dearborn. We are grateful to the JetBlue Foundation for their flexibility.