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Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery Post-COVID: A Few Big Bets, Part II

This session reprised the CGLR component of a recent Education Week Leadership Symposium and built on the June 1 session’s exploration into “big bet worthy” programs and strategies that can deliver transformative change to accelerate learning recovery for children in economically disadvantaged families. This week’s learning and engagement opportunity highlighted digital equity and EdTech-enabled teaching and learning as an intertwined big bet.  […]

Bringing Digital Equity Home: The Suncoast Digital Access for All Initiative

In this Crucible of Practice Salon, members of the Digital Access for All (DA4A) initiative at The Patterson Foundation in the Suncoast region of Florida discussed how “more than money philanthropy” guided The Patterson Foundation’s DA4A initiative from concept to community collaboration within the span of one year. Members of the DA4A team — including Cheri Coryea, John […]

New Jersey Tutoring Corps: Lessons in Accelerating Learning Recovery

“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 […]

Learning at Home and in the Classroom: Innovation in Curricula and Professional Learning

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 […]

Inspiring Young Minds Through Out-of-School STEM

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 […]

Promotion Policies in 2021: Ensuring Students Are Ready, Not Retained

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 […]

Community Investments in Parent-Child Relationships Drive School Readiness

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 […]

Advancing Digital Equity for Powerful Learning

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 […]