This Crucible of Practice Salon highlighted the innovative work of the BOOST (Building Opportunities for Out-of-School Time) grant initiative in Georgia, developed in partnership by the Georgia Department of Education and the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network...
Moderated by Liletta Jenkins with the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, this session explored the First 10 model in Maine, starting with how state leaders crafted their approach and including district and school leaders in Sanford, Maine, who talked...
Moderated by Barbara Hammond and Liz Woody-Remington from The Learning Alliance, this session explored how leaders...
This Crucible of Practice Salon explored a recently released brief developed by Philadelphia leaders, Philadelphia as a Literacy-Rich Environment: Unlocking Potential and Creating Change. Participants engaged with these leaders, along with CGLR community...
June CGLR Community of Practice
“We are getting books into the hands of children and families in Detroit. This isn’t something that we’re doing without community and without other organizations. It’s a partnership and it’s all of us working together to improve some of the outcomes here in our city...
“It's our mission to be that platform and place for educators, elevate practices, and grow professionally as they support students preschool through age 5 in our state. We do this because we truly believe that when schools and communities are well prepared to deliver...
“Puzzle pieces are so fitting for what United to Thrive represents. A puzzle is more challenging in nature, but there is a solution. It may be complex and there may be many parts, but every puzzle has a solution. So do the challenges our community faces. You have to...
“I am a former athlete and one of the things I learned in athletics is when you are up against an opponent, you want to change their eye level, get them to look in a different place. What we’re hoping at ‘Every School Day Counts Detroit’ is to change your eye level,...
