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Collective Caregiving: Talking About What Kids & Families Need to Thrive

We all love our kids, as well as our neighbors’, friends’, and coworkers’ kids. But why haven’t we built systems in the U.S. that truly support all our children? The Collective Caregiving Frame is a powerful new communications strategy designed to mobilize communities and build environments that help every child thrive. This framework, developed earlier […]

Maximizing Impact: The Critical Role of Philanthropy in High-Impact Tutoring

Approximately $7.5 billion of ESSER funds were invested in new tutoring programs with as many as 80% of U.S. school districts launching or strengthening tutoring programs in the wake of the pandemic, according to the federal School Pulse Panel. Over the past four years, many innovations have emerged to help scale and expand tutoring programs […]

Event Series Kindergarten Matters

The First 10 Framework: Exploring Best Practices and Community Innovations

Moderated by Melissa Castillo, Ed.D., with the U.S. Department of Education, this conversation highlighted two communities — Conestoga Valley, Pennsylvania, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island — and explored the ways that they’re implementing the First 10 Framework in their schools. Attendees first heard from David Jacobson, Ph.D., from the Education Development Center (EDC) and First 10 who discussed the First 10 initiative’s approach to creating […]

Words in Every Neighborhood: Citywide Efforts to Expand Literacy-Rich Environments

This Crucible of Practice Salon explored a recently released brief developed by Philadelphia leaders, Philadelphia as a Literacy-Rich Environment: Unlocking Potential and Creating Change. Participants engaged with these leaders, along with CGLR community representatives from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Charlotte, North Carolina, about city- and county-wide efforts to create literacy-rich environments in the everyday places and spaces […]

Building Stronger Teacher Pipelines Through University-District Partnerships

CGLR and Deans for Impact (DFI) were thrilled to bring this critical topic to the foreground as communities across the country grapple with new teacher attrition amidst ongoing shortages. We heard from two strong, long-standing partnerships in Ohio and Virginia on how to successfully work together across recruitment, preparation and mentoring, and what it takes […]

Event Series Kindergarten Matters

Play-Based Learning in the Kindergarten Classroom & Beyond

    Moderated by Diana Greene, Ph.D., of Children’s Literacy Initiative, this conversation highlighted the ways that playful learning can and should be used as a classroom method that fosters creativity, curiosity and critical thinking in children.  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., of Temple University and the Brookings Institution served as the key speaker in the conversation and began by highlighting the […]