Last week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “A Pivotal Year: Kindergarten’s Important Role in Education,” featured Swati Adarkar, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning at the U.S. Department of Education, Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making, and Ryan Lee-James, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer at the Atlanta Speech School, in a discussion of why kindergarten is such an important year. Laura […]
“How do we take this moment that feels really hard, and say, 'What can we do better'? ... 'How does research and how we’re mobilizing knowledge and disseminating knowledge change, so that if this happens again—and listen, whether it’s a snow day, or a natural disaster, or a hurricane: this is going to happen again—and […]
“I think the real challenge coming out of the pandemic is how can we get our students who are in poverty the resources they need? What can we learn from the way we deployed devices so that even after the bell students could still connect and continue to learn, like many of their peers across […]
Through panel conversations with three philanthropic leaders and three providers, this Funder-to-Funder Conversation explores the role that research-based professional development plays in promoting positive learning environments to support children’s kindergarten readiness.
In this week's webinar Safety and Belonging First: Advancing Well-Being for Learning Recovery, we explored how to best cultivate well-being for students — and their parents, caregivers and teachers — as a strategy to advance equitable learning recovery as we continue to emerge from the pandemic. Experts helped us explore our own experience with well-being […]
“How do we get all these wonderful practices that you're hearing about into the length of day that we have in kindergarten?” Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., of Stand for Children asked this amidst the rich conversation during this GLR Learning Tuesdays session that was a part of a series planned in partnership with New America, lifting up […]
“Everybody has a role, one of the first things I think we need to do is to get parents and family and community on board and understanding this isn't going to go just go away. This is a serious problem we have here that will impact students’ outcomes and their lives for years to come. […]
“Puzzle pieces are so fitting for what United to Thrive represents. A puzzle is more challenging in nature, but there is a solution. It may be complex and there may be many parts, but every puzzle has a solution. So do the challenges our community faces. You have to focus on the big picture in […]