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 […]
With growing recognition of its critical role in a child's educational journey, the transition into kindergarten is gaining renewed attention. In June 2024, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading’s Kindergarten Matters webinar series highlighted the timely importance of the transition into the kindergarten year: what this shift can look like for students and families, what programs […]
The research is clear: literacy outcomes improve when young children have access to books and other age-appropriate, high-quality reading materials. Learn how innovative nonprofits are overcoming “book deserts,” book bans, curriculum changes and library closures, ensuring that children have ready access to books in their homes, schools and the everyday places they frequent with their […]
United Way Worldwide and Ascend at the Aspen Institute have long partnered with each other and with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading to disrupt the cycle of poverty and create more hopeful futures for children with a focus on improving early learning. Two-generation (2Gen) approaches, which support children as well as their parents and caregivers, […]
We know that attendance is key to student success and to closing academic gaps. And yet, since the pandemic, norms around work and learning have shifted dramatically to disrupt the tradition of school as attending in-person, five days a week. In fact, four-day school weeks occurred in about half of the states in the 2022–2023 […]