In May 11, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, panelists shared the valuable and often unheralded work of “America’s best kept secret”: Family Resource Centers (FRCs). More than 3,000 community-based and school-based FRCs support families in urban and rural communities in 31 states and the District of Columbia. In the past year, they have served as […]
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 […]
In this May 18, 2021 Funder-to-Funder session, Jessica Tsang, Ph.D., explained how Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) investments seek to support the whole child through a lens of racial equity using practices based in the science of learning and development. Reach Every Reader is an example of how CZI focuses on translating research into practice and using practice to inform […]
During the webinar, the speakers gave insightful, practical advice on working with business leaders in a variety of ways to contribute to grade-level reading. Moderator Sara Watson, founder and former Global Director of business group ReadyNation, gave advice on preparing to build a business partnership, finding business leaders and sustaining the relationship. A brief participant […]
This learning and engagement opportunity featured a panel of K–3 teachers from across the country, along with leaders of teacher support and advocacy organizations, responding to the data indicating changes and challenges for the fall 2021 K–3 classroom composition. Panelists shared how they are preparing for classes full of students without a full year of […]
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 […]
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. […]
In this session, Suzanne Harbin of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia presented an overview of the Early Childhood Initiative, gave context for the Dalton-Whitfield County community and addressed the progress they’ve made around grade-level proficiency in the last five years. Next, community partners, gave details about the continuum of supports they have put in place for […]
