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...
“Something I've learned is that this work falls on a continuum. A literacy-rich environment can be as simple as paint and chalk on a sidewalk or can look like a much more expensive play structure. But I think the amazing thing with this work is that both of those...
“We use public policy, research and data, community investments and communications all together to leverage systemic change. And I think the work of chronic absenteeism is a great example to see this work in action,” –Janice Palmer, Senior Vice President, Government...
“So, this really pushed and elevated funders into new ways that they could lead community leadership work. And we're seeing it paid huge dividends both in the campaign’s success and other bodies of work.” In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, Kari McCann-Boutell of...
Through panel conversations with three philanthropic leaders and three providers, this Funder-to-Funder Conversation explores the role that research-based professional development plays in promoting positive learning environments to support children’s kindergarten readiness.
In this week’s 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...
“My longtime mentor, Dr. Ruby Takanishi, the founder of the PreK–3 movement said, ‘We have to do a better job of reducing the chaos at the schoolhouse door.’ By this she meant that we need to build a more aligned system, a system that requires a ‘sturdy bridge’...
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, hosted on April 4, 2023, was Part 1 of a two-part series co-sponsored by Overdeck Family Foundation exploring high-impact tutoring as a critical, evidence-based strategy proven to accelerate academic learning post-pandemic. This...
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Leaning Into Community-Wide Learning: What It Takes and Where It’s Happening!, was a follow-on conversation to our April 18 session, Building a Parent-Centered Ecosystem for Out-of-School Learning, which focused on program models...
In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, a panel of funders introduce Remake Learning as a vehicle for building demand among parents, families and caregivers for a new approach to learning that is grounded in the preexisting local learning landscape, the learning sciences, and innovation and justice.
In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, funders from the Mott Foundation, the Wallace Foundation and United Way of Central Iowa share how their foundations have been supporting summer and out-of-school time (OST) learning for decades, the research base they have amassed and how they have adapted their investments in response to the pandemic.
Swati [Adarkar, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning] really called out two key transitions — the transition into kindergarten and then transition from kindergarten into first grade. When those transitions and those systems are so misaligned or...