Annual Community Dialogue on Early Education and Care
Wheelock sponsors a free, yearly conference for community leaders, policy makers, advocates, and educators to discuss the landscape of administration, policy, and provision of early education and care in Massachusetts.

Boston Higher Education Partnership
Boston Higher Education Partnership (BHEP) is a learning community that creates a culture of reflection and mutual learning and new avenues for collaboration for its members. Wheelock has 41 partnerships with local public schools.

Child Life Academic Summit
The purpose of this summit is to identify best practices in the education of child life students to promote and improve excellence in child life education. The summit also seeks to build partnerships between Child Life Council's leadership, clinical sites, and academic instructors that support child
life education, training, and professional development, and set an agenda to encourage critical thinking, research, and publication of scholarship in the field of child life.

Educator Mentor Corps (EMC)
Drawing from Wheelock's extensive network of education alumni, the EMC is a volunteer network of skilled educators who provide high quality mentoring to new teachers in the greater Boston area.

ELL Access Project
Wheelock College received funding through the Department of Early Education and Care and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education to work with the Massachusetts Readiness Center Network to examine the need for increased access to higher education for early childhood educators with limited English proficiency.

STEM Teacher Enhancement Project (STEP)
The Wheelock College Aspire Institute launchedthis program to significantly improve math and science instruction among elementary (Gr. 1-5) teachers. STEP will develop and deliver high-quality, online math and science in-service courses to elementary teachers in the Boston region and beyond.

Jumpstart
Wheelock College and Jumpstart launched a formal partnership in the fall of 2005. This partnership pairs college students with preschoolers to promote literacy, language, and social skills. Wheelock students focus solely in the Roxbury area as part of the School Readiness for All Initiative. In addition, The Wheelock Jumpstart site has the largest percentage of student participation of any college or university in the Boston area and continues to be cited as a national model.

Orchard Gardens Pilot School Partnership
Wheelock College and Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School developed a partnership in the fall of 2003 to advance student achievement, provide opportunities for professional development of in-service teachers, and prepare the next generation of teachers, particularly in the area of literacy.

The Passion for Action Scholarship Program
The Passion for Action Scholarship Program supports scholars in learning to nurture and apply their passion to become leaders for positive change in their community, their nation, and the world.

Science Learning Teams
Science Learning Teams provide a range of activities and supports designed to greatly improve science teaching and learning across school and afterschool settings in Boston and Cambridge. The teams comprise Wheelock College science and education faculty, school and out-of-school staff, and STEM professionals.

Teacher Bound/Upward Bound
Teacher Bound Upward Bound is a four-year federally-funded TRIO grant that imposes high expectations and provides strong academic preparation, leadership development, hands-on classroom experience and mentoring for a cohort of 50 low-income and/or first-generation Boston students who have the potential to become outstanding urban educators. Teacher Bound at Wheelock College is the only Upward Bound program in the country that was funded to also be an urban teacher/educator development program.

Ubuntu in the Works
Ubuntu in the Works is a dynamic collection of ongoing projects and initiatives at Wheelock College that are created through a partnership between the Office of Collegiate and College Access Programs and the academic program in Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy. The primary Ubuntu in the Works programs are:

• SPARK the Truth: A student-led social action group of Wheelock students and student leaders from Boston Public Schools.
• Ubuntu Arts: A college-community endeavor in which Wheelock students and community-based sites facilitate collaborative youth art-making and exhibition in the spirit of Ubuntu.

Wheelock College/Mason Pilot School Partnership
A collaborative effort since the early 1990s, this partnership has continued uninterrupted since then and has grown richer and deeper with time. Wheelock students are placed in year-long internships in Mason's fully inclusive classrooms. Many Wheelock alumni have gone on to become classroom teachers at Mason.

Wheelock Youth Symposium
Wheelock has convened two major Youth Symposiums, bringing together several hundred middle and high school students from public, private, pilot, and charter schools in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge for a high-energy, daylong discussion about leadership, mentoring, and self-respect. The 2010 Youth Symposium, titled "Bridges to Our Future: The Next Generation of Leaders," was led by award-winning actor and author Hill Harper and legal scholar Charles Ogletree. The 2007 Youth Symposium, titled "Bridges to Hope and Understanding: Exploring Truth and Reconciliation," was led by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.