Through panel conversations with three philanthropic leaders and three providers, this Funder-to-Funder Conversation explores the role that research-based professional development plays in promoting positive learning environments to support children’s kindergarten readiness.
In this week's webinar Safety and Belonging First: Advancing Well-Being for Learning Recovery, we explored how to best cultivate well-being for students — and their parents, caregivers and teachers — as a strategy to advance equitable learning recovery as we continue to emerge from the pandemic. Experts helped us explore our own experience with well-being […]
“How do we get all these wonderful practices that you're hearing about into the length of day that we have in kindergarten?” Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., of Stand for Children asked this amidst the rich conversation during this GLR Learning Tuesdays session that was a part of a series planned in partnership with New America, lifting up […]
“Everybody has a role, one of the first things I think we need to do is to get parents and family and community on board and understanding this isn't going to go just go away. This is a serious problem we have here that will impact students’ outcomes and their lives for years to come. […]
“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 […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “Follow the Money: $190 Billion to Confront Challenges, Seize Opportunities,” we had the chance to look back and look ahead at investments made by State Education Agencies and local school districts from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund, federal funding designed to address the unprecedented setbacks […]
“Our schools are community institutions first and foremost. One of the things we were really grateful for during the COVID era, because we were community institutions, because our teachers and leaders had deep ties to their communities and deep roots in their communities, they had built stores of trust with parents, with teachers, and it […]
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar focuses on the critical importance of creating deep relationships with families and caregivers to address the extraordinarily high levels of kindergarten chronic absence occurring in the aftermath of the pandemic.