Colette Owens

Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF)

AERDF (sounds like "air-diff") is a national nonprofit R&D organization launched in 2021. We are pioneering Inclusive R&D in Education by building ambitious, inclusive three to five year programs together with educators, researchers, and developers. Our work tackles major and persistent teaching and learning challenges that disproportionately affect Black and Latino students and students of all races experiencing poverty in grades PreK-12. AERDF programs build on existing community-driven evidence and expertise as well as learning science to translate fundamental insights into usable knowledge, useful practices, equitable approaches, and transformative tools for educators and students. Our current Inclusive R&D programs are EF+Math, Assessment for Good, and Reading Reimagined.