Occurring on the third Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. ET, CGLR’s Funder-to-Funder Conversations engage the funders who are leading and investing in the 350+ community coalitions in states across the country and those investing on a broader scale. The series seeks to lift up and align the assets of both local and national funders — the local knowledge, earned credibility and trusting relationships that state and local funders bring to this work and the increased access to experts and the latest research and larger funding capacity of national funders.
CGLR PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING EARLY SCHOOL SUCCESS
Stop playing catch-up
Ensure that fewer children start school so far behind.
End chronic absence
Don’t let students fall further behind during the school year.
Reverse the summer slide
Address health-related challenges
Equip parents to succeed
Parents are brain builders, first teachers and tutors, strongest advocates and best coaches.
Advance grade-level reading and math
Slow, stop and reverse learning loss
RECENT & RELEVANT
Building Public Will for Literacy by Igniting Parent and Family Engagement
Too often "parent engagement" is treated as a checked box rather than a strategic and essential pillar for early literacy outcomes. Those on the front lines of addressing the literacy crisis know that sustainable change only happens when parents have a seat at the...
Parents as Essential Partners: Beating the Odds and Reducing Chronic Absenteeism
Three years ago, as schools and districts grappled with the fallout from pandemic school closures and persistent chronic absence, important new research found evidence that schools with strong family engagement were less likely to experience high chronic absence. The...
From Pipeline to Practice: Strategies to Build & Sustain a Diverse Teacher Workforce
As achievement gaps and evolving classroom needs place unprecedented pressure on our schools, teacher development has emerged as a "big bet" for accelerating equitable academic recovery. Join CGLR and the William Penn Foundation as we kick off a new sponsored series...