In this December 5, 2023 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, panelists addressed a barrier that may be further hampering equitable learning recovery: a lack of sufficient public will and what often feels like kids just not being prioritized. Moderator John Gomperts of CGLR engaged with leading researchers and communications strategists who are working to change the […]
“We invite our business leaders, organizations and city leaders to come together to celebrate a love of reading. We really want to hone in on the importance of where kids are learning and that there’s a role for everyone across our community to play and help support that learning.” – Barb Lito In this Crucible […]
What is standing in our way? “In one word, inertia, resistance to change.” Kenneth B. Mason of the Georgia State Board of Education and the Southern Regional Education Board offered this perspective during this week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Stalled Learning Recovery & Bright Spots From 2023. As this session looked back at several 2023 sessions on data and learning to inform the […]
Parents are their children’s first and most important teacher and as children enter elementary school, CGLR believes they should be enlisted as a school system’s most powerful partners. Yet schools’ parent engagement efforts often fall short. Fortunately, there are multiple organizations focused on leveraging the power of parents and supporting them in establishing productive partnerships […]
With the child care cliff looming on September 30, 2023, and millions of children poised to lose access to child care, CGLR hosted a session on September 12, 2023. The dire state of child care and early childhood education (ECE) is not new. As a country, we have yet to find and implement equitable and […]
Alarming increases in chronic absence across the nation, particularly in kindergarten, reveal the urgent need to re-establish routines of daily attendance among our youngest learners. Students chronically absent in preschool and kindergarten are more likely to be chronically absent in later grades and much less likely to read and count proficiently by the end of […]
In 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, better known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, released $65 billion to be used to support digital connectivity to bridge the digital divide. This large investment has provided access to connectivity and devices for millions across the United States and significantly accelerates efforts to close the digital learning […]
Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy is designed to empower more lean funders to get involved in this kind of outsized impact work. The core of it really gets to this idea of funders using 'more than money' — using your convening ability, leveraging relationships, being able to raise public awareness of issues, using your foundation platform, […]