Our Partners
WestEd is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education research, evaluation, and technical assistance organization with over 50 years of experience working with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. WestEd’s vision is to make a quality difference in the lives of children, youth, and adults. WestEd brings deep knowledge and expertise in special education to Project FRACTAL. The Special Education Policy and Practice team at WestEd partners with federal, state, and local clients to achieve lasting impacts for students with disabilities and their families by designing and implementing inclusive practices for teaching and learning, aligning general and special education systems, strategically managing human and fiscal resources, and evaluating and continuously improving their systems.
Katabasis is a non-profit organization located in eastern North Carolina that specializes in creating adaptive and immersive educational technologies for students ages 8 through 15, with a focus on low-income and rural learners. Utilizing the advances being made in AI, our company aims to provide students with new ways of interacting with educational content. In addition, we integrate support structures to provide clarification and reflection during the students’ process of assimilating new knowledge.
The mission of Empirical Education Inc. is to promote effective and equitable education by providing research services and context-relevant evaluations of programs, products, and policies that empower educators and bring about impactful solutions. Empirical Education Inc. brings research, data analysis, engineering, and project management expertise to a diverse range of customers including edtech companies and their investors, the U.S. Department of Education, foundations, leading research organizations, and state and local education agencies. Over the last twenty years, Empirical Education Inc. has worked with school systems to conduct dozens of rigorous experiments.
Jones County Public Schools aim to foster a professional, trustworthy, transparent, and results-oriented culture that meets the need of all stakeholders, with the ultimate goal of having all students achieve their maximum potential.
Granville County Public Schools strive to help every student reach their full potential, prepared to thrive in a changing world. We aim to do so by empowering every student, every day.
An enrollment of more than 20,000 students makes the Public Schools of Robeson County one of the largest school systems in the North Carolina. Principals, teachers and behind-the-scenes personnel work to provide the young people in our 39 schools an effective education. They also make us one of the largest employers in Robeson County.