This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, hosted on April 4, 2023, was Part 1 of a two-part series co-sponsored by Overdeck Family Foundation exploring high-impact tutoring as a critical, evidence-based strategy proven to accelerate academic learning post-pandemic. This learning and engagement opportunity also continued our series of sessions that follow up on our recent exploration of state and district […]
“The power in this work is in the power of your partnerships. If you can engage your community in authentic ways that speak to the values of the folx that represent the communities, cities, and neighborhoods where you live, the work moves forward. Make sure you hold sacred the power of partnerships in your community.” […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we picked up on Part 2 in our series co-sponsored by Overdeck Family Foundation exploring high-impact tutoring as a critical, evidence-based strategy proven to accelerate academic learning post-pandemic. Discussions that constituted Beyond the ESSER “Funding Cliff”: Local Supports to Sustain High-Impact Tutoring gave us the chance to explore the path to […]
“My longtime mentor, Dr. Ruby Takanishi, the founder of the PreK–3 movement said, ‘We have to do a better job of reducing the chaos at the schoolhouse door.’ By this she meant that we need to build a more aligned system, a system that requires a ‘sturdy bridge’ between the early years and the early […]
“We believe that it is whole, healthy, functioning communities that produce whole, healthy, functioning individuals.” - Gevonee Ford, Executive Director, Network for the Development of Children of African Descent In this Learning Tuesdays Learning Loss Recovery Challenge Webinar, Building a Parent-Centered Ecosystem for Out-of-School Learning, our panelists introduced models that help produce the healthy, functioning communities Gevonee […]
“In our language, it explains who should be at the table with us, and it’s very clear. It’s specific that we need district leadership, county office leadership, students, families, parents, community partners, certificated staff, classified staff. This created the space and opportunity so that everyone can be a part of transforming their local context.” - […]
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Leaning Into Community-Wide Learning: What It Takes and Where It’s Happening!, was a follow-on conversation to our April 18 session, Building a Parent-Centered Ecosystem for Out-of-School Learning, which focused on program models that support learning in everyday places and spaces. The May 2 session shifted to a focus on community-wide coordinated systems that create […]
"Reading is the key to everything. I tell the students that if you read, the world is yours. Reading is going to give them the foundation to become adults that love to read, and that's going to affect their family life, their job and everything in the future." – Ken Livingston This Crucible of Practice Salon featuring Ken […]