This November 19, 2019 GLR Learning Tuesday webinar -- the second in the Productive Parent/Teacher Partnerships series co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New Year -- provided a deep dive exploration of the history and current state of parent/teacher relationships. Helen Westmoreland of National PTA reviewed and summarized 50 years of research on parent/teacher partnerships […]
Gina Martinez-Keddy of the national nonprofit organization Parent-Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) shared the history of PTHV and presented PTHV’s Five Non-Negotiable Core Practices: visits are voluntary for all; educators are trained and compensated; we share hopes, dreams, and goals; we don’t target students; and educators go in pairs and reflect. Carmen Avila, a parent of […]
During this webinar, we discussed how communities can use human-centered design to ensure that programs and services meet families’ needs and help them succeed. Sheetal Singh and Mansi Kakkar of Early Learning Lab (ELL) shared how ELL developed and piloted the Parent Innovation Institute in Oakland, Ca., and Jenny Bogoni of Read by 4th and Jennifer […]
Helen Westmoreland kicked off the conversation, stressing how home-school communications are more important than ever with schools remaining closed for months. She also encouraged attendees to reflect on the many types of behaviors that schools ask families to take in their communications, including turning in forms, reading with their children, and attending meetings. By being […]
In this special GLR webinar, Dr. Jacqueline Jones of Foundation for Child Development moderated a conversation exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children and strategies and resources that can help support children’s emotional well-being. Dr. Pamela Cantor, the Founder of Turnaround for Children, discussed the “COVID paradox” in which the physical distancing […]
In this May 26, 2020 GLR Learning Tuesdays Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar, Lisa Guernsey of New America moderated a rich conversation to help attendees understand the scope, extent and dimensions of the digital inequities made even more visible by the pandemic, particularly for children and families from low-income communities. Noting that online learning only […]
During the inaugural session of our Funder-to-Funder Conversation series, Janet Froetscher, President of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, shared highlights from the growing body of science pointing to the impact of the prenatal-to-age-3 time period on a child’s learning and healthy development. In doing so, she highlighted new research that links adversity in […]
This Funder-to-Funder Conversation began with reflections from Liz Simons, Board Chair of the Heising-Simons Foundation, who explained her personal commitment to helping math flourish in early childhood settings. Simons shared her belief that access to early math learning opportunities is an equity issue; and she noted that in the time that the Heising-Simons Foundation has […]