CGLR has long advocated that strategies focused on getting parents and caregivers to take part in their children’s learning progress are a “big bet” with the potential to make more than incremental change. Yet recently, “family engagement” has become more of a catchphrase than something that is understood as a demonstrable learning recovery strategy. So […]
“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 […]
June CGLR Community of Practice
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 early research on the use of generative AI tools...suggests that those children who are underperforming the most are gaining the most from access to this technology.– Isabelle Hau, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford University Isabelle Hau of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford University offered the quote above during our June 25, 2024 GLR Learning […]
This session was originally recorded live on April 23, 2024. This discussion built on previous sessions exploring EdTech as a tool that increases student engagement and expands the reach of tutoring, literacy instruction and other interventions. We saw EdTech get a big boost during the pandemic as schools shifted to remote learning, which also underscored […]
