Parents are their children’s first and most important teacher and as children enter elementary school, CGLR believes they should be enlisted as a school system’s most powerful partners. Yet schools’ parent engagement efforts often fall short. Fortunately, there are multiple organizations focused on leveraging the power of parents and supporting them in establishing productive partnerships […]
With the child care cliff looming on September 30, 2023, and millions of children poised to lose access to child care, CGLR hosted a session on September 12, 2023. The dire state of child care and early childhood education (ECE) is not new. As a country, we have yet to find and implement equitable and […]
When we speak of gaps in our education system, we mean those related to access, opportunity and achievement that too many students — especially students of color and who live in economically challenged families — have historically experienced and continue to experience. With this focus on gaps — and more importantly, what we can do […]
“It's an intentional process where we use data to identify needs and then scale interventions that show promising results from initial pilots.” - H. Alix Gallagher, Ph.D., Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) In this GLR Learning Tuesdays session hosted in partnership with the LEARN Network, panelists discussed scaling evidence-based products and practices and had a […]
In this Kindergarten Matters session, Paula Grubbs, Ph.D., from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, UNC Chapel Hill served as moderator, leading panelists through the conversation while sharing insights from her work as lead of the Kindergarten Sturdy Bridge Learning Community. Attendees first heard from Stacy Ehrlich Loewe, Ph.D. with NORC at the University of Chicago who served as Principal Research Scientist […]
During this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Betsy Mijares, Ed.D., with the T.L.L. Temple Foundation moderated a conversation exploring innovative approaches that university and nonprofit leaders are applying in rural and urban areas to strengthen teacher recruitment and retention. Mijares began by sharing information about her rural east Texas foundation’s investments and partnerships related to teacher […]
CGLR has long advocated for productive parent-teacher partnerships and has hosted several webinars in recent years that revealed why “big bets” should be made on this strategy, which has the potential to make more than the usual increments of change. When parents (or any primary caregiver for a student) build relational trust with their child’s […]
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has devoted several GLR Learning Tuesdays sessions to the importance of investing in EdTech. We know that technology can support learning when it helps to “scale up standardized instruction, facilitate differentiated instruction, expand opportunities for practice, and increase student engagement,” as noted by The Brookings Institution. Obviously, EdTech got a big boost […]