“I love math,” said a pre-K scholar in one New Jersey Tutoring Corps site, while another shared, “I’m going to be a math teacher when I grow up.” These two student quotes were shared during the October 19, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays Funder-to-Funder Conversation, New Jersey Tutoring Corps: Lessons in Accelerating Learning Recovery. In this […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh15TByN7VM “Education is a human endeavor. It’s all about student relationships and we really need to see caregivers, parents and family members as partners in the critical work of ensuring that every single student in our nation learned on grade level and achieves their dreams.” Sarah Johnson of Teaching Lab shared this important reminder during […]
https://youtu.be/aRNqKhhzcDU “Out-of-school time, which makes up close to 80 percent of a child’s life, can build the academic and social-emotional skills that help students succeed. Specifically for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math — or STEM ― skills, out-of-school time allows students to approach knowledge and content in innovative and personalized ways, providing a freedom of choice and agency that is […]
In this session, moderator, Kelly Butler, Chief Executive Officer of Barksdale Reading Institute, provided us with some historical context of the debate around retention and promotion in the U.S. education system and in particular the negative impact on children of color. She offered some examples of alternatives to retention that address supports for children who are not meeting […]
https://youtu.be/CEY7VpyTaKQ?si=AbH7wzdjapyUCDqI&t=288 “By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize clinical activities, rewrite research agendas, and realign our collective advocacy.” Dr. David Willis, a pediatrician and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Social […]
In the January 11, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Jean Claude Brizard, CEO of Digital Promise, served as moderator and shared some data that demonstrated the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on learning loss. The pandemic exposed the reality of the digital inequities in communities -- inequities that had already been in place but were exacerbated […]
“Kids must become code breakers in order to ultimately become meaning makers. In other words, reading is the operating system of education, and if our kids can’t read, they can’t learn.” Jessica Reid Sliwerski made the above statement as she explained why she founded Ignite! Reading and described how this online tutoring program is enabling high-quality tutoring […]
https://youtu.be/js9h8twmkoM “We're encouraging states to start thinking about relegating this work of summer learning into the structure of the State Education Agency (SEA) because, rather than having this be something that we work on for the short term, we want it to become a natural conversation among SEA members building state strategic plans as they […]