Education
Our programs aim to advance a racially just future for learning
because equitable education is a right.
Supporting and empowering students from poverty-impacted
communities to thrive in school, college and career.
Our programmatic supports include early learning, K-12 academics, post-secondary success, and successful entry into career. We continuously work to expand our partnerships and relationships to provide robust support services across all points of the education continuum.
Equity
We are committed to racial equity and the dismantling and restructuring
of systems that create inequities for marginalized individuals.
Our Approach
Whole School
Model
We provide support to every student, family, teacher, and stakeholder at the elementary school level. This includes coordinating partners to serve in alignment with their expertise, convening parent stakeholders to listen to and learn from them, facilitating a culture of college and career, and some direct service programming when needs can’t be met directly by partners.
Individualized Advocacy Model
When students transition to middle and high school, we support them with an individualized advocacy model. This approach allows students to “opt-in” to our programs and focuses more on individual student support than on school systems and partnerships. Our programming builds on the many strengths of Greater Than students.
Flexible Problem Solvers
We are committed to providing equitable education for all Greater Than students in Reynolds and Hillsboro School Districts. This requires our approach be a combination of direct service and deep collaboration.
REYNOLDS HIGH SCHOOL ON-TIME GRADUATION
Five straight years of post-pandemic gains.
Community
We are intent on moving from a system of holding power over community
to holding power with community.
We serve schools in two distinct communities,
Rockwood and Downtown Hillsboro.
While the communities are more than 30 miles apart, they share many strengths and are both high opportunity communities. Both of these neighborhoods have been impacted by systemic racism, holding back families from thriving to their fullest potential.
“I think that coming to Alder was the best thing that could have happened to me because it was here where I realized I had the opportunity to go to college.”