This learning and engagement opportunity was the second of three sessions that follow-on to a spring GLR Learning Tuesdays event co-sponsored with Education Week and co-hosted with the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy, The Fall K–3 Classroom: What the Data...
In this Kindergarten Matters session, Paula Grubbs, Ph.D., from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, UNC Chapel Hill served as moderator, leading panelists through the conversation while sharing insights from her work as lead of the Kindergarten Sturdy...
The early research on the use of generative AI tools...suggests that those children who are underperforming the most are gaining the most from access to this technology.– Isabelle Hau, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, Stanford University Isabelle Hau of Stanford...
“When I'm talking about child poverty, there’s not a Republican or a Democratic way of dealing with it. When we’re talking about creating educational supports for kids, there’s not a Democratic way of educating kids and a Republican way of educating kids. Follow the...
“This (grade-level reading) is not an initiative for us. This is going to be a new way of life, in which we're going to ensure that all of our kids are going to be [reading] on grade level. You cannot do that without parents as your partners. When I came in as...
In this week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays rebroadcast webinar, From Classroom to Community: Investing in Whole-Child Support Systems From Cradle to Career, we continued our series of sessions that follow up on our recent exploration of state and district spending from the...
“Everything that is so important to us about reading and literacy also has profound health impacts.” — Linda Mayes, M.D., Chair, Yale Child Study Center In this Partners webinar, Reading for Life: The Impact of Child Literacy on Health Outcomes, the...
“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’...
“The power in this work is in the power of your partnerships. If you can engage your community in authentic ways that speak to the values of the folx that represent the communities, cities, and neighborhoods where you live, the work moves forward. Make sure you hold...
Continuing our series of sessions exploring state and district spending from the $190 billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) federal fund, Whiteboard Advisors cosponsors this session, highlighting effective investments supporting comprehensive, cradle-to-career, place-based supports for students and families.
Co-sponsored by First Book and the Diverse Books for All Coalition, this session features the Diverse Books for All Coalition, a new national consortium of nonprofits and member organizations working together to increase access to affordable, high-quality diverse books for children from birth to 8 years old
"Reading is the key to everything. I tell the students that if you read, the world is yours. Reading is going to give them the foundation to become adults that love to read, and that's going to affect their family life, their job and everything in the future." – Ken...
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...