Michael H. Levine

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  • Teach For America Graphic

    Advisory Board Member

    Teach For America

    - 7 years 1 month

    Education

    Inaugural Member of TFA's Early Childhood Corps National Advisory board

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    Member Board Of Directors

    The Forum for Youth Investment

    - 8 years 2 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, I chaired the Strategic Planning and Fund Development Committee, contributing to a substantial growth in revenue generation and critical partnership development.

    The Forum for Youth Investment helps leaders get young people ready for life. Core beliefs:
    --All young people in a community can be ready by 21 – for college, work and life.
    --Communities can give young people the supports they need – from cradle to career.
    --Leaders can ignite…

    Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, I chaired the Strategic Planning and Fund Development Committee, contributing to a substantial growth in revenue generation and critical partnership development.

    The Forum for Youth Investment helps leaders get young people ready for life. Core beliefs:
    --All young people in a community can be ready by 21 – for college, work and life.
    --Communities can give young people the supports they need – from cradle to career.
    --Leaders can ignite change to make that happen – through the power of collective impact.

    The Forum works with state and local leaders and leadership groups to fundamentally change the way they do business for young people. Through field-tested strategies the Forum:

    Strengthens state and local partnerships that focus on young people.
    Expands and improves learning opportunities for all youth.
    Aligns and advances policies and resources to make them more effective.

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    Member Board Of Directors

    Saga Education

    - Present 3 years 10 months

    Education

    Educational technology non-profit devoted to promoting rigorous learning and career readiness skills for underserved youth through the power of digital media innovation, especially games and simulations

  • National Advisory Board

    PBS Kids

    - 9 years 1 month

    Education

    Member of National Advisory Board that guided the work of PBS' Ready to Learn and Next Generation Media initiative

  • Founder

    Sesame Workshop Alumni Network

    - Present 6 years 4 months

    Education

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    Board Member

    Digilearn

    - 7 years 1 month

    Education

    DigiLearn is a national organization devoted to building new approaches to training, support, and capacity-building for digital age teaching. Devoted to digital equity and program innovation, DigiLearn is chaired by former Governor’s Bev Perdue (NC) and Jim Gehringer (WY)

  • Board Member

    Jump Start

    - Present 5 years 3 months

    Education

    Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. We provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities. Research indicates that our programs have a significant positive impact on children and mentor's learning and development.

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    Board Member & Chair, Finance Committe

    We Are Family Foundation

    - Present 22 years

    Education

    Chair of the Finance Committee

    Founded by Grammy Award winning musician, Nile Rodgers, We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a non-profit organization that's dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing the vision, talents, and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world. Through global initiatives like Three Dot Dash and TEDxTeen, WAFF has mentored and empowered 300 extraordinary teens from…

    Chair of the Finance Committee

    Founded by Grammy Award winning musician, Nile Rodgers, We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a non-profit organization that's dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing the vision, talents, and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world. Through global initiatives like Three Dot Dash and TEDxTeen, WAFF has mentored and empowered 300 extraordinary teens from more than 60 countries on six continents by giving them platforms to share their messages, tell their stories, inspire others, amplify their work and foster respect and understanding across cultures.

  • Board Member

    Woot Math

    - 5 years

    Education

    Woot Math addresses arguably the single biggest pain point in education - making all students algebra-ready. The areas that keep students from succeeding in math are finite and well understood. Woot Math addresses these areas with a platform that takes the best instructional content and adaptively tailors that content to meet each student's personal needs. Woot Math doesn’t seek to replace the teacher, but to provide tools that make teachers more effective in reaching more students. Woot Math…

    Woot Math addresses arguably the single biggest pain point in education - making all students algebra-ready. The areas that keep students from succeeding in math are finite and well understood. Woot Math addresses these areas with a platform that takes the best instructional content and adaptively tailors that content to meet each student's personal needs. Woot Math doesn’t seek to replace the teacher, but to provide tools that make teachers more effective in reaching more students. Woot Math has proven efficacy and is an architect of rigorous R&D with support from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education.

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    Board Member

    Digital Promise

    - Present 2 years 5 months

    Education

    Member of the Board of this high impact digital media and learning organization that is "best in class." Focuses on meeting the needs of low-income children and online digital innovation with unique research to practice, policy reform and design thinking orientation. Grew out of Presidential and Congressional action in 2011

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    Business Advisor

    Hoot Reading

    - Present 4 years 7 months

    Education

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    Advisor

    Mrs Wordsmith

    - Present 6 years 1 month

    Education

  • Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Graphic

    Board Member

    Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

    - Present 3 years 3 months

    Education

    Member of Governance Board, serving on finance and strategy committees for national non-profit foundation committed to reversing the adult literacy crisis

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Honors & Awards

  • Friend of the Family Award

    Working Mother Magazine

    Named one of 25 of USA’s most influential leaders in shaping social policies for children and families. Others honored included President Bill Clinton and Developmental psychologist and co-founder of Head Start, Dr. Ed Zigler

  • Working Mother Family Champion

    Working Mother Magazine

    One of 25 most influential leaders named as "family champions" along with notable Americans such as President Bill Clinton and Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman..

Languages

  • Spanish

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Organizations

  • National Association for the Education of Young Children

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