In this session, Suzanne Harbin of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia presented an overview of the Early Childhood Initiative, gave context for the Dalton-Whitfield County community and addressed the progress they’ve made around grade-level proficiency in the last five years. Next, community partners, gave details about the continuum of supports they have put in place for […]
In this session, moderator Ashley Parker Sheils, Ph.D., Program Director at MiSsion Acceleration, talked about how and why MiSsion Acceleration started, described their funding proposal, discussed their definition of what high-dosage tutoring is and outlined how they have made decisions about program structure, content and staffing. Next, Kari Lynn Somers, Director of Community Impact at United Way of Southeast Mississippi, focused […]
“It's our mission to be that platform and place for educators, elevate practices, and grow professionally as they support students preschool through age 5 in our state. We do this because we truly believe that when schools and communities are well prepared to deliver best practices, it impacts the students. This helps our students be […]
“Puzzle pieces are so fitting for what United to Thrive represents. A puzzle is more challenging in nature, but there is a solution. It may be complex and there may be many parts, but every puzzle has a solution. So do the challenges our community faces. You have to focus on the big picture in […]
https://youtu.be/cUIuQIrxlls?si=cuDM5Of3A-DD42Ia&t=222 “I am a former athlete and one of the things I learned in athletics is when you are up against an opponent, you want to change their eye level, get them to look in a different place. What we’re hoping at ‘Every School Day Counts Detroit’ is to change your eye level, to look […]
https://youtu.be/jFcvcwMWrhY?si=Qkx4lH6_T_20sBQR&t=264 This session opened with an introduction about the program from Stephanie Dean with Public Impact. Dean shared the vision of Opportunity Culture as ensuring every student has consistency with exposure to excellent teachers and that teachers have career opportunities through advancement and on-the-job coaching. She also described the five culture principles of the program, […]
Join us again on November 14 from 12:30-2pm ET for our next Crucible of Practice session!“We believe that it is critical that each of these everyday places and spaces should and could be a learning-rich environment for children.” –Siobhan O’Loughlin Reardon This session explored local efforts of building literacy and learning-rich environments into locations where […]
“One of the things that all organizations need to be mindful of is, do they, in fact, have people who’ve ever experienced what real collaboration looks like? What does that look like at the community or cross-systems level? What is this thing called collaboration? Because collaboration is built on the spirit of cooperation.” – Jametta […]
