“How do we get all these wonderful practices that you're hearing about into the length of day that we have in kindergarten?” Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., of Stand for Children asked this amidst the rich conversation of the session, Play + Academics + Relationships: Teaching in Ways Kindergartners Learn Best, where panelists shared some of the most important research […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Preventing Burnout and #Resignation: Investing in Teacher Coaching and Support, we continued our series of sessions that follow up on our recent exploration of state and district spending from the $190 billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) federal fund. This week, our session explored the significance of teacher coaching and […]
Chronic absence is double the levels prior to the pandemic, and it is exceptionally high in the early grades. Exceptional challenges (increased illness, mental health, economic challenges, etc.) are barriers to getting our youngest learners in school and back into the routine of learning. Despite the pandemic’s impacts, district leaders are implementing intentional, year-round strategies […]
In this Learning Tuesdays webinar, we learned about the progress made in the past year on two national initiatives launched by the U.S. Department of Education in the summer of 2022. Last fall, we introduced both the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) and Engage Every Student to the GLR Network, and in this week’s webinar, we learned what […]
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, co-sponsored by Early Learning Nation Magazine, we heard a riveting conversation about early childhood policy — past, present and future. Moderator Michelle Kang of NAEYC opened the session by recognizing the essential yet currently undervalued and undercompensated role that child care and education professionals have, and by a brief […]
High-Quality Early Childhood Education
What really needs to be top of mind this year is getting schools to consider whether the response, the scale of their response, is actually matching the magnitude of the problem. So, it's really critical to be thinking about recovery, not just as a multiyear effort with layered supports, and be clear eyed that this is […]
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