“We should definitely view pandemic recovery as a process that will take place in multiple institutions in society.” — Dan Goldhaber, Director of CALDER at American Institutes for Research Hedy Chang, Executive Director and President of Attendance Works, moderated a conversation with a panel of leading researchers, exploring data on student achievement during COVID-19 and insights that can […]
"Innovative communities across the country are creating a First 10 roadmap that addresses teaching and learning, partnerships with families and comprehensive services, and First 10 provides a framework, a guided planning process and a set of effective collaborative strategies." - David Jacobson, Education Development Center. Thank you for registering for last week’s Peer Exchange Learning Conversation, First […]
"We wanted to provide students with an opportunity to support their continued learning." Eric Becoats, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools at the William Penn School District, offered this reflection during the October 4, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays session as he talked about how the REACH program was implemented in his district. He continued to share, saying “my goal […]
“It's our mission to be that platform and place for educators, elevate practices, and grow professionally as they support students preschool through age 5 in our state. We do this because we truly believe that when schools and communities are well prepared to deliver best practices, it impacts the students. This helps our students be […]
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 […]
