Pathways to Progress: Inspiring Success Stories in Student Learning Recovery
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- December 10
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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“The approach isn’t to build…infrastructure exactly the way it was before….I don’t think that the goal of where we’re trying to get to should be back to where we were before, but how can we get to a whole different place?”
–Robert Runcie, Chiefs for Change
The national narrative about student growth is largely driven by national data showing sluggish progress and persistent gaps. As you know, we pay very close attention to that data and are focused on broad improvement in those numbers. But the story about slow growth and persistent gaps isn’t the only story out there. Along with key allies, we want to draw attention to and energy from examples of student growth, gap narrowing, innovation and resilience.
These success stories are crucial to counter pessimism and defeatism, to give us evidence and confidence that progress is possible, and to provide practical insights to inform efforts moving forward. That’s why as a follow-up to our October webinar, Bridging the Gap: Data Insights and Global Strategies for Accelerating Educational Recovery, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is gathering several close allies to look at what we can learn from success stories in student learning and recovery.
We will hear about a recent Curriculum Associates report on what is driving the remarkable recovery efforts of six urban school districts—Birmingham, Alabama; Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon. As the Curriculum Associates report details, these districts have used targeted strategies to achieve significant gains in reading and math proficiency, even surpassing pre-pandemic levels in some cases. We will learn how community engagement, enhanced instructional practices and digital tools contributed to these outcomes in high-poverty areas.
As we dig into the importance of tailoring strategies to local contexts and leveraging innovation to overcome stagnation, we’ll also hear from Arizona Rural School Association on how they are working to ensure more students gain the skills needed for the future and from The Education Trust on how they are working to help states, districts, communities and other entities reframe how they help move this work forward.
Recognizing that education leaders worldwide are grappling with the challenges of learning loss, we also will have a chance to hear insights from McKinsey & Company’s investigation of global examples, such as Singapore and Ceará, Brazil, where evidence-based reforms and sustainable coalitions are surmounting poverty and inequities to produce notable results for young people.
Join us on December 10, from 3–4:30 p.m. ET, to hear firsthand how these stories of progress from across the country and around the globe can inform and inspire action in your own community. Participants will leave with actionable strategies, an understanding of what’s working in communities and renewed confidence about the potential for academic recovery and progress.
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