In this Learning Tuesdays webinar, we followed our September 6 briefing on the National Partnership for Student Success with a focus on a second new federal initiative designed to assist schools and communities in accelerating equitable recovery called Engage Every Student. This initiative aims to provide high-quality out-of-school time (OST) learning opportunities for every child who wants to participate […]
“So, this really pushed and elevated funders into new ways that they could lead community leadership work. And we're seeing it paid huge dividends both in the campaign’s success and other bodies of work.” In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, Kari McCann-Boutell of the Iowa Council of Foundations (ICoF) shares the results of ICoF’s recently released Co-Funding […]
Moderated by Hedy Chang of Attendance Works, this session featured an inspiring conversation about how schools and housing agencies should and could be working together to address the skyrocketing rates of chronic absence. The panelists, discussing collaborations in Arizona, California and Maine, emphasized how housing agencies are key partners with schools and community organizations in addressing and reducing […]
"Over a lifetime, positive effects of early math compound, and we all benefit from investing in children’s early math learning–birth through grade 3.” – Douglas Clements, Ph.D., University of Denver In this session, the second in the Early Math + Early Literacy special webinar series, Douglas Clements, Ph.D., and Julie Sarama, Ph.D., of Marsico Institute at the […]
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.