Melissa Steel King is a partner on the Policy and Evaluation team at Bellwether Education Partners, where her work has focused on program evaluation, evaluation capacity-building, teacher preparation and training, and whole child development.
A group of community-based organizations that had been working to reimagine education before the pandemic capitalized on a window of opportunity to create new microschool-inspired learning environments for Black and Latino youth.
Initially an in-person, local organization, My Reflection Matters launched its virtual “Village” platform in August 2020 to connect and support primarily Black, Indigenous, and People of Color families.