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Stalled Learning Recovery and Bright Spots from 2023

What is standing in our way? “In one word, inertia, resistance to change.”  Kenneth B. Mason of the Georgia State Board of Education and the Southern Regional Education Board offered this perspective during this week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Stalled Learning Recovery & Bright Spots From 2023.  As this session looked back at several 2023 sessions on data and learning to inform the […]

REBROADCAST – Building Parent Power: Fostering a Movement of Informed Learning Agents

Parents are their children’s first and most important teacher and as children enter elementary school, CGLR believes they should be enlisted as a school system’s most powerful partners. Yet schools’ parent engagement efforts often fall short. Fortunately, there are multiple organizations focused on leveraging the power of parents and supporting them in establishing productive partnerships […]

REBROADCAST – The Urgent Need for Effective Child Care and ECE Policy

With the child care cliff looming on September 30, 2023, and millions of children poised to lose access to child care, CGLR hosted a session on September 12, 2023. The dire state of child care and early childhood education (ECE) is not new. As a country, we have yet to find and implement equitable and […]

REBROADCAST – The First Month of School and Beyond: Nurturing Attendance Every Day

Alarming increases in chronic absence across the nation, particularly in kindergarten, reveal the urgent need to re-establish routines of daily attendance among our youngest learners.  Students chronically absent in preschool and kindergarten are more likely to be chronically absent in later grades and much less likely to read and count proficiently by the end of […]

Connecting Communities: National and Local Partners Linking Families to the Internet

In 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, better known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, released $65 billion to be used to support digital connectivity to bridge the digital divide. This large investment has provided access to connectivity and devices for millions across the United States and significantly accelerates efforts to close the digital learning […]

Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy: Helping Lean Funders Unleash Their Full Potential

Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy is designed to empower more lean funders to get involved in this kind of outsized impact work. The core of it really gets to this idea of funders using 'more than money' — using your convening ability, leveraging relationships, being able to raise public awareness of issues, using your foundation platform, […]

Big Bets Working: Keeping the Commitment to Tutoring Alive and Strong

In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we focused on identifying and celebrating where and how tutoring — an essential strategy that has the promise of delivering more than the usual increments of progress toward transformative change — is enabling educators and their community partners to move the needle on equitable learning recovery. Moderator Pete Lavorini of Overdeck Family […]

Engaging Families for Everyday Attendance

In this Big Bets Working session, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) hosted a conversation with practitioners working at the school, district, community and state levels to hear how they are partnering with families to overcome attendance barriers and make attendance a priority strategy for nurturing early school success. “Positive family engagement is foundational to […]