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Technology to Accelerate Learning: Tech-Enabled Solutions to Address Learning Loss

Moderated by Ipek Bakir of the Overdeck Family Foundation, this conversation featured four leaders in the tech-enabled curricula and solutions space, Michelle Brown of CommonLit, Neena Hendershott of Zearn, Claudia Miner of Waterford UPSTART and Karin Wu of MIND Research Institute, creator of ST Math. Each of the panelists described the ways in which their platforms support students, educators, parents and administrators in advancing components of early school success, including […]

Parents Speak: Ready for Bold Change in K–12 Education

This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Christine Patterson of the Walton Family Foundation — explored the findings from recent national parent polls designed to collect perspectives on schooling and what their children need to succeed post-pandemic. Tanya Rosbash of Tyton Partners shared information from Part I of their longitudinal research effort, “School Disrupted,” revealing that parents have changed how and where they are enrolling […]

Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery Post-COVID: A Few Big Bets, Part I

https://youtu.be/NEzw5stLirQ This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by John Gomperts, CGLR Senior Fellow —reprised the CGLR component of the recent Education Week Leadership Symposium focused on “big bet worthy” programs and strategies that can deliver more than the usual increments of progress to accelerate learning recovery for children in economically disadvantaged families. (View the full recording of the CLGR presentation […]

Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery Post-COVID: A Few Big Bets, Part II

This session reprised the CGLR component of a recent Education Week Leadership Symposium and built on the June 1 session’s exploration into “big bet worthy” programs and strategies that can deliver transformative change to accelerate learning recovery for children in economically disadvantaged families. This week’s learning and engagement opportunity highlighted digital equity and EdTech-enabled teaching and learning as an intertwined big bet.  […]

Event Series Kindergarten Matters

Parent Coaching to Promote Kindergarten Readiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5mAlVXiCE Carly Roberts of Overdeck Family Foundation opened the session by providing an overview of the Foundation’s Early Impact portfolio, which includes a focus on families as a part of its efforts to ensure that all children enter kindergarten with the skills they need to succeed. She described some of the evidence that shows parent coaching supports families […]

Bringing Digital Equity Home: The Suncoast Digital Access for All Initiative

In this Crucible of Practice Salon, members of the Digital Access for All (DA4A) initiative at The Patterson Foundation in the Suncoast region of Florida discussed how “more than money philanthropy” guided The Patterson Foundation’s DA4A initiative from concept to community collaboration within the span of one year. Members of the DA4A team — including Cheri Coryea, John […]

Event Series Kindergarten Matters

The Kindergarten Exodus: Why, Where and What We Can Do Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5mAlVXiCE This GLR Learning Tuesdays discussion, titled The Kindergarten Exodus: Why, Where and What We Can Do Now, featured the voices of committed district superintendents from across the country sharing their insights about what it takes to reengage families and reenroll young students — even as the chaos and confusion of the pandemic ensues. Co-sponsored with New […]

New Jersey Tutoring Corps: Lessons in Accelerating Learning Recovery

“I love math,” said a pre-K scholar in one New Jersey Tutoring Corps site, while another shared, “I’m going to be a math teacher when I grow up.” These two student quotes were shared during the October 19, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays Funder-to-Funder Conversation, New Jersey Tutoring Corps: Lessons in Accelerating Learning Recovery. In this […]