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91亚色传媒's College of Education has received a three-year, $2.2 million grant to fund an initiative focused on transforming the relationship between eight Washington state K-12 schools and their respective communities.

The Public Education in Beloved Community Initiative (PEBCI) is a partnership between the College of Education, five publicly funded charter schools and three traditional public schools across Washington state, funded by the Gates Foundation.

College of Education Dean Cynthia B. Dillard, PhD, speaks to representatives from each partner school during an event to formally launch PEBCI. Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave the keynote address via video link. 

“We are excited and honored to partner with the Gates Foundation on this initiative to cultivate and develop beloved community across these partner schools, in the spirit of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” says Dean Cynthia B. Dillard, PhD, who is also lead investigator of the PEBCI. “Centered on the notion of love and community as fundamental to education, PEBCI will highlight and support the unique connection between a school’s mission, the community they serve and the academic outcomes they deliver.”

Directed by the College of Education’s Jamie Cho, PhD, PEBCI will measure collective transformation in education through opportunities for teachers and leaders that center connection, community and healing.

“This initiative is grounded in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visionary work to create beloved community by embracing love as an active form of change,&