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🎥 Amadeus premiered in Los Angeles on this date

🎥 Amadeus premiered in Los Angeles on this date in 1984. The film was produced by Saul Zaentz and would go on to win eight Academy Awards®, including Best Picture.

#SaulZaentz #Amadeus #Movies #Movie

Check out the new episode of the #StartingAtZero P

Check out the new episode of the #StartingAtZero Podcast with Jeana Ross: a conversation with the incredible Dr. Calvin Moore, CEO of Council for Professional Recognition.

Watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite platform (Apple Podcasts, Spotify & more) – at link in bio.

#EarlyLearning #EarlyChildhoodEducation

A new episode of our #StartingAtZero podcast just

A new episode of our #StartingAtZero podcast just dropped! Check out Jeana Ross' conversation with Michelle Kang, CEO of @naeyc. Watch now at StartingAtZeroPodcast.com

#earlyeducation #podcast #naeyc

📽️ Breaking into filmmaking isn’t easy, whi

📽️ Breaking into filmmaking isn’t easy, which is why we invest in @saulzaentzinnovationfund at @johnshopkinsu. Their programming and mentorship network helps cultivate emerging artists who otherwise would not have opportunities to explore their craft. 🎞️

Arts for Learning Maryland (@arts4learningmd) is a

Arts for Learning Maryland (@arts4learningmd) is a #Baltimore-area nonprofit dedicated to enhancing Maryland youth's education 📚through culturally diverse arts programs. We’re proud supporters of the organization’s ambitious work, which connects 185,000+ students to arts education each year. Learn more ➡️artsforlearningmd.org

📣Big news! Today we’re launching the #Startin

📣Big news! Today we’re launching the #StartingAtZero 🎧podcast, hosted by Jeana Ross. Each episode features an innovator in #earlychildhoodeducation, elevating bold ideas that can help children everywhere thrive.

Our inaugural guest is actress and entrepreneur Tanya Wright (@tanyaishair), who is an accomplished actress (Orange Is the New Black, True Blood), and alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (@harvardeducation).

Listen and subscribe now! saulzaentzfoundation.org/podcasts

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Baltimore School for the Arts (@baltschoolarts) is

Baltimore School for the Arts (@baltschoolarts) is proof that arts are an essential part of all learning. We're proud to support this innovative organization that merges rigorous college prep with 🎨🎭 🎶arts training. Students are admitted based on artistic merit, and 🎓graduates routinely have the highest SAT scores of any #Baltimore-area high school. bsfa.org/about

Every community needs art and culture. 🎨🎭 🎶 Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (@baltimoreculture) is a catalyst and incubator for important programs that make arts accessible to everyone who calls Baltimore home. Learn more about their work: baltimoreculture.org

🌟Spotlight on Charm City! Our recent newsletter

🌟Spotlight on Charm City! Our recent newsletter featured five organizations we fund, each of which contributes great things to #Baltimore and beyond. You can find and read on our website newsletter page.

Last month, SNF Parkway Theatre / Maryland Film Fe

Last month, SNF Parkway Theatre / Maryland Film Fest celebrated its 25th anniversary with a compelling slate of content that elevated both acclaimed and emerging filmmakers. We're delighted that projects from four @saulzaentzinnovationfund in Film & Media at Johns Hopkins fellows were among the festival's 40 selected films.

In 2020, SZCF grantee @berkeleyfilmfoundation (BFF

In 2020, SZCF grantee @berkeleyfilmfoundation (BFF) facilitated a matching grant between the Nancy P. and Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and SZCF to support Make a Circle, a film by Jen Bradwell and Todd Boekelheide. The documentary was early in its production at the time, tracking how the pandemic affected workers in a pre-school program in Berkeley, CA. Not knowing this story would grow to illuminate larger issues of inequality, education, and mental health, the funding from this partnership allowed the filmmakers to jumpstart production and get noticed by other funders.

👏 On May 5, 2024, the film opened with a bang—premiering at DocLands to a sold-out crowd, where it received the festival's coveted Audience Choice Award.

The support given to Make a Circle exemplifies how Berkeley FILM Foundation helps local, independent filmmakers who are making films with national resonance and influencing social and political change.

We're proud supporters of the @americanwritersmuse

We're proud supporters of the @americanwritersmuseum in Chicago! They hosted a free literary event with the @chicagopubliclibrary last weekend. The American Writers Festival celebrated the past, promoted the present and aimed to inspire the future of American writing.

#writer #writers #publishing

Documentary films allow us to see new places, expe

Documentary films allow us to see new places, experience new ideas and take action on important causes. Our friends at @mountainfilm plan to deliver just that during their 46th annual festival, May 23 – 27 in Telluride. Learn more at mountainfilm.org. Image courtesy of Bash Jelen.

🏆 The first Academy Awards® ceremony took plac

🏆 The first Academy Awards® ceremony took place on this date in 1929. 🗓️ The Oscars® are special to us because of Saul Zaentz’s legacy in the film industry. Saul produced three Best Picture-winning films during his career. 🎞️ To this day, no producer has earned more.

👉 For the trivia buffs, the three films are: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1975), ‘Amadeus' (1984), and ’The English Patient’ (1996).

#SaulZaentz #Oscars #AcademyAwards #AcademyAward

Improving America's approach to early education re

Improving America's approach to early education requires ingenuity and cross-sector collaboration. Today, we shared information in our newsletter about a fantastic program housed at @umassboston that exhibits both of those qualities. Keep reading to learn more and be inspired!

The Institute for Early Education, Leadership, and Innovation is led by Executive Director Dr. Anne Douglass. All of the programs and research by the Institute are organized around the principle that high-quality early care and education require bold, effective, and creative leaders with a shared vision and purpose, who reflect the racial, cultural, and linguistic richness of our communities.

Unlike other professional fields, relational and entrepreneurial leadership training for early educators is rare, though research points to enormous benefits when early educators have access to this type of training. Educators who receive it can experience transformative shifts in their mindsets, seeing themselves as leaders — often for the first time.

All of the Institute’s programs are intentionally structured to be welcoming to those who have historically faced barriers to professional development and higher education, such as immigrants and first-generation students. Programmatic supports, such as dedicated academic and writing tutors, and relational supports, such as mentor and cohort connections, are built into all programs.

The Leadership Institute drives systems change by investing in workforce and leadership development, research, and the larger early education ecosystem to cultivate effective leaders who reflect and represent their communities.

Dr. Douglass is focused on equipping those working closest with children and families with the tools they need to advance the field. Her belief for sustained change is that the work must center the racial, cultural, and linguistic richness of the workforce and the children and families they serve.

We're delighted to announce that Dr. @danwuori has

We're delighted to announce that Dr. @danwuori has joined our team!

Dr. Wuori will lead critical conversations about the needs of America’s young children and families, and support state leaders in the development and refinement of #earlychildhood systems.

We did a site visit in Menlo Park, CA while at #EC

We did a site visit in Menlo Park, CA while at #ECPA23 this week. We toured All Five (allfive.org) with Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Sylvia Luke, the Stanford team and more.

Since opening in 2015, All Five has hired and trained ten teachers, six from the East Palo Alto/Belle Haven community. Three moms of children who attend or graduated from All Five, also from the community, have been inspired to become early education teachers.

We traveled to Stanford this week for #ECPA23! Jea

We traveled to Stanford this week for #ECPA23! Jeana Ross joined a panel to discuss the economic case for #childcare, along with Amanda Sweet of Santa Rosa Metro Chamber and Tonya Ware of ReadyNation.

Improving how our nation educates and cares for it

Improving how our nation educates and cares for its children requires investment, innovation, and collaboration.

Learn how you can screen our documentary #TomorrowsHope (@tomorrowshopefilm) in your community: tomorrowshopefilm.com

#EarlyChildhoodEducation #EarlyEducation #Childcare #ece

#tbt January 2023 in #Chicago, where we kicked off

#tbt January 2023 in #Chicago, where we kicked off the year with a planning session with our #EarlyChildhood partners.

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