In this session, moderator, Kelly Butler, Chief Executive Officer of Barksdale Reading Institute, provided us with some historical context of the debate around retention and promotion in the U.S. education system and in particular the negative impact on children of color. She offered some examples of alternatives to retention that address supports for children who are not meeting […]
https://youtu.be/CEY7VpyTaKQ?si=AbH7wzdjapyUCDqI&t=288 “By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize clinical activities, rewrite research agendas, and realign our collective advocacy.” Dr. David Willis, a pediatrician and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Social […]
In this session, moderator Ashley Parker Sheils, Ph.D., Program Director at MiSsion Acceleration, talked about how and why MiSsion Acceleration started, described their funding proposal, discussed their definition of what high-dosage tutoring is and outlined how they have made decisions about program structure, content and staffing. Next, Kari Lynn Somers, Director of Community Impact at United Way of Southeast Mississippi, focused […]
In the January 11, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Jean Claude Brizard, CEO of Digital Promise, served as moderator and shared some data that demonstrated the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on learning loss. The pandemic exposed the reality of the digital inequities in communities -- inequities that had already been in place but were exacerbated […]
“Kids must become code breakers in order to ultimately become meaning makers. In other words, reading is the operating system of education, and if our kids can’t read, they can’t learn.” Jessica Reid Sliwerski made the above statement as she explained why she founded Ignite! Reading and described how this online tutoring program is enabling high-quality tutoring […]
https://youtu.be/js9h8twmkoM “We're encouraging states to start thinking about relegating this work of summer learning into the structure of the State Education Agency (SEA) because, rather than having this be something that we work on for the short term, we want it to become a natural conversation among SEA members building state strategic plans as they […]
https://youtu.be/mHAyYAV4lJY “We call our report Unlocking the ‘How’ because we keep hearing from schools and systems across the country that the pandemic has elevated the awareness of need for family engagement, but a lot of folks are asking for the best strategies for how to do that work.” This was author Eyal Bergman’s introduction of Learning Heroes’ new report, Unlocking the “How”: Designing Family […]
Imagine a philanthropic investment so powerful that it changes how children think — something that embeds the conviction, “I have a future. Education is for me, not for somebody else.” According to Patty Grant, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Wabash County, Indiana, that ability to transform how children see themselves is part of what makes […]
