“Early relational health creates a necessary footing for young children to optimally learn and engage in the world around them. It helps children to cultivate relationships throughout their life. It lays the foundation for early brain development that helps to support learning and behaviors into adulthood. It's foundational. Early relationships shape the well-being of both […]
Swati really called out two key transitions — the transition into kindergarten and then transition from kindergarten into first grade. When those transitions and those systems are so misaligned or disjointed, it puts an extra burden on families because they’re not just trying to align to one system. They’re trying to align to different systems […]
“The vast majority of people in our school communities want to create equity oriented educational systems. When we put the pieces together we create the conditions to act. This joyful, developmentally appropriate aligned equity focus, early learning and elementary continuum. The results are incredibly hopeful.” Anya Hurwitz, Ed.D., of Sobrato Early Academic Language offered this insight during this […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning: Continuing the Conversation, we revisited a session from early 2021 when school district leaders discussed how they were using specific education technology (EdTech) tools to sustain and deepen learning while schools were still largely operating virtually or in hybrid models. In this week’s session, we rejoined with the […]
“One of the things that we learned is that every state is different, and every state has different abilities and different infrastructure. And what we recognize is that states needed greater flexibility, they know their audience well, and they really needed to have the flexibility to say what is appropriate for their individuals and their […]
"It is midnight in our world today and the media landscape is cluttered with divisive, uninspiring content. Much the same as it was more than 60 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first gave his Knock at Midnight sermon and the late great Newton Minnow gave his Vast Wasteland speech. So it is especially gratifying when public […]
“When I'm talking about child poverty, there’s not a Republican or a Democratic way of dealing with it. When we’re talking about creating educational supports for kids, there’s not a Democratic way of educating kids and a Republican way of educating kids. Follow the data. Follow the things that are making sense and then…take and […]
In this GLR Week 2023 session, United Way Worldwide, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and CGLR engaged a powerhouse of national and local leaders, including Ralph Smith of CGLR; Ayeola Fortune of United Way Worldwide; Camille Busette of the Brookings Institution and the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative; Marjorie Sims of Ascend at the Aspen […]
