This December 29, 2025 holiday rebroadcast, co-sponsored by Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, sought to offer research-backed, practical strategies to help families and those who support them make informed choices about technology use for infants and toddlers. The conversation was moderated by Kris Perry, MSW, of Children and Screens who began the […]
This January 6, 2026 session rebroadcast the final session of our "Decoding NAEP" series from 2025 that engaged state chiefs, educators, parents, researchers, and advocates in a deep-dive exploration of the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — often called "The Nation’s Report Card.” In this session, panelists went beyond decoding the 2024 […]
This session explored ways states and communities are working with families to ensure that they both understand the strategies schools are using to teach their children to read and are familiar with tools they can use to help their children build their literacy skills at home. The session began with Susie Estrada at the Utah State Board of Education, […]
This Learning Tuesdays conversation examined a rapidly shifting education policy landscape and what it means for early learning, literacy, and equity in 2026. Moderated by John Gomperts of CGLR, this session brought together national policy leaders to reflect on the forces that reshaped education in 2025 and to explore where leaders should focus in the year ahead. Panelists […]
“Families trust educators often more than educators trust families. So we need to create the conditions for educators to challenge their mindsets, to actually learn what it means to effectively engage families. One of the things we often say here at Flamboyan is ‘Families are experts in their child. As an educator, you are an expert in content and pedagogy so how you support the child is […]
This session picked up on our series and our continued focus on tutoring as a critically important “Big Bets” strategy that is making a measurable impact on students learning recovery and acceleration. This week, we were pleased to continue that exploration in a book talk with Liz Cohen of 50CAN and author of The Future of Tutoring: Lessons from 10,000 School […]
As we move forward, almost six years later, from the beginning of what we call pandemic learning, we still have a lot of very important questions to ask as we are here talking about what interventions are still needed and what really works. Moderator Tracie Potts of Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College offered this important framing as she […]
My advice for people on the call is to make your voices heard at the state level about whether you like it or you dislike it or where you want them to improve upon it….I think it's really important that you advocate to your state leaders about your thoughts on the program and how to […]