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How to Be an Effective Communicator in Difficult Times: Using Data and Messaging to Tell an Impact Story (Part 2)
In January, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR), United Way Worldwide (UWW), and Ascend at the Aspen Institute hosted a session to offer the field a broader frame to consider to convey […]
Beyond the Ballot: Did Child Policy Predictions Hold True?
Join the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading as we reconvene with the education leaders who joined us for Beyond the Ballot: Sustaining Progress in Academic Recovery and Early School Success, hosted in […]
Counting on Philanthropy: How National & Local Funders Are Collaborating to Advance Early Math
This Funder-to-Funder session was a continuation of a series of conversations focused on early math that began in 2020. This session explored how funders are working creatively and with growing […]
Equitable Literacy Instruction Part 2: Ensuring the Science of Reading Works for All Children
In this follow-on discussion to our January session with executives from the Children’s Literacy Initiative and other leaders, we picked up on the notion that a primary key to dispelling misunderstandings about […]
Decoding NAEP: Frontline Educators Reflect on the Pace and Progress of Learning Recovery
So far, our Decoding NAEP series has explored diverse perspectives — from journalists to state education chiefs — on key takeaways from the NAEP results and how they might inform […]
More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage? Potential Implications of Accelerated Deportation
“The problems caused by a lack of a coherent immigration policy are now being compounded by a flood of executive orders that will fail to replace such a policy. Instead, […]
Georgia Efforts to Support Summer Learning
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 […]
More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage?
The recent GLR Learning Tuesdays session examined the evolving role of the federal government in education, focusing on the children and families who may be affected by proposed policy changes. […]
Harnessing the Power of Communities to Help Children: The Early Learning Nation Collective
“Through this work over the decades, we have seen the value of community leadership because place is such a critical factor in kids’ life trajectories. If you look at the […]
Decoding NAEP: The Perspectives of State Chiefs
This important session was a type of capstone to CGLR’s recent multi-week Decoding NAEP series where we’ve had the chance to hear multiple perspectives on interpreting and making use of the 2024 […]
Decoding NAEP: What Families Know and What We Can Do
"We all want the best for our kids. But without information… how can we advocate?"– John Johnson, Parent Advocate This Decoding NAEP session, co-sponsored by the National Parents Union (NPU) […]
Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education
This special webinar allowed us to dig deeper into the importance of relationships in early education with Love to Learn author Isabelle Hau of Stanford University and a panel of expert commentators who shared their […]
For-Profit Child Care: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities
This important session was part of CGLR’s ongoing series exploring the persistent challenges and the hoped for future of child care that began in fall 2024. Many of you joined […]
Decoding NAEP: Different Contexts, Different Results?
The fourth session in our Decoding NAEP series brought together leaders from across educational contexts including: Raymond C. Hart, Ph.D. of the Council of the Great City Schools; Drew Jacobs, […]
NCADE Emerging: A Briefing and Conversation With the Institute of Education Sciences
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the independent research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, has been vaulted into the news cycle with the announcement that the Trump administration […]
Decoding NAEP: Attendance Matters
Continuing CGLR’s winter series examining the data and results from NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, the latest session delved into an analysis of the recently released Education […]
First 10 School-Community Partnerships in Action: Maine’s Distinctive Approach to Community Schools
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 […]
Decoding NAEP: Who’s Below “Basic” and Why?
“I don’t think we should ever stop paying attention to the data. I don’t think we should ever stop collecting data. I don’t think we should ever stop disaggregating and […]
Decoding NAEP: Behind and Beyond the Headlines
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar featured the voices of journalists, data experts and community leaders in an engaging conversation as the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading launched its new mini-series on […]
Starting From a Place of Strength: United Ways Using Data and Messaging to Tell an Impact Story
This GLR Learning Tuesdays Peer Exchange Conversation, presented in collaboration with United Way Worldwide and Ascend at the Aspen Institute, explored how data and messaging drive community impact. Moderated by […]
Sports-Focused Initiatives: A Way Through the Debate about SEL?
In this learning experience, we engaged with Olympic gold medalists and other leaders who are successfully creating opportunities for students to engage in sports-based SEL (social-emotional learning) programs and dispelling […]
Power of Philanthropy: Supporting Children’s Advocacy Through Strategic Framing
Baked into our mission is that this work is generational. When it comes to supporting long-term mind shifts, we know it will take more than a grant cycle. So, we […]
Kindergarten in Context: What Makes a Principal an Effective P-3 Leader?
This conversation brought together a panel of experienced education leaders who shared insights on how effective P-3 leadership supports high-quality early learning, fosters community partnerships and promotes equitable, developmentally appropriate […]
Equitable Literacy Instruction: Ensuring the Science of Reading Works for All Children
In this incredibly inspirational learning experience, panelists emphasized that a primary key to dispelling misunderstandings about the sciences of reading is realizing there are multiple sciences that need to be taken into consideration […]
Beyond the Ballot: Sustaining Progress in Academic Recovery and Early School Success
“We all like accountability in theory. And then when we start getting real about what it means, nobody really likes it because it's about tough love.”– Michael Petrelli, Thomas B. Fordham […]
Holiday Rebroadcast: Not Just Nice But Necessary: Family Engagement = A Big Bet That’s Paying Off for Kids
CGLR has long advocated that strategies focused on getting parents and caregivers to take part in their children’s learning progress are a “big bet” with the potential to make more […]
Holiday Rebroadcast: Supporting School Attendance in a Time of Changing Norms
During this webinar, John Gomperts with the Campaign for Grade-Level-Reading moderated a conversation exploring the causes behind the widespread spike in chronic absenteeism post-pandemic and strategies to tackle it among education and community leaders. […]
Kindergarten Briefing and Update
Implementing these programs and getting the work done is not always easy. But the more we can help each other out and lift up, the better. Lisa Guernsey of New America shared […]
Child Care Has Shifted: Are We Ready for the Future?
Changes to the labor market, increased understanding of the science of early childhood, and the visibility of the child care crisis present an opportunity to interrogate and reimagine child care, […]
The Intersection of Progress and Practice: Actualizing the Science of Reading With Moonshot Moment
Moderated by Barbara Hammond and Liz Woody-Remington from The Learning Alliance, this session explored how leaders with Moonshot Moment, the CGLR community in Indian River County, Florida, have integrated a systems-thinking approach with implementation science […]
Pathways to Progress: Inspiring Success Stories in Student Learning Recovery
“Implementation is the new innovation.” –Doug Scott This GLR Learning Tuesdays session explored effective frameworks and stories of overcoming learning loss and promoting equity in education. Kelsey Young, Ph.D., of Curriculum Associates highlighted […]
Uniting Schools & Families to Get Students Back Into the Attendance Habit
Co-Sponsored by Learning Heroes and Attendance Works Moderated by John Gomperts of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, attendees heard from experts in the field who are actively working to align the priorities of […]
The Daycare Myth Part 2: Creating Better State Systems for Children
An earlier session in October, initiated our focus on Dan Wuori's new book, The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do […]
Maximizing Impact: The Critical Role of Philanthropy in High-Impact Tutoring
“The research shows that tutoring remains the most effective academic intervention, outperforming class size, summer school and extended school years. And continues to build a research agenda that adds to […]
Collective Caregiving: Talking About What Kids & Families Need to Thrive
The session opened with a reflection on the paradox of American caregiving, by David Alexander, M.D., of Leading for Kids who stated, “We know how to fix poverty, we know how to fix […]
Words in Every Neighborhood: Citywide Efforts to Expand Literacy-Rich Environments
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 […]
The First 10 Framework: Exploring Best Practices and Community Innovations
Moderated by Melissa Castillo, Ed.D., with the U.S. Department of Education, this conversation highlighted two communities — Conestoga Valley, Pennsylvania, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island — and explored the ways that they’re implementing the […]
ELECTION DAY REBROADCAST: The ESSER Funding Cliff Approaches: What States Did & What They Learned
CGLR had the rare opportunity to convene and learn from a panel of Chief State School Officers and hear straight from the decision- and policymakers about the interventions and strategies […]
An “Honesty Gap”? Shifting State Standards & Accountability for Learning Loss Recovery
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card” because it is the one national report that gives us a broad look at […]
Building Stronger Teacher Pipelines Through University-District Partnerships
CGLR and Deans for Impact (DFI) were thrilled to bring this critical topic to the foreground as communities across the country grapple with new teacher attrition amidst ongoing shortages. We […]
Play-Based Learning in the Kindergarten Classroom & Beyond
Moderated by Diana Greene, Ph.D., of Children’s Literacy Initiative, this conversation highlighted the ways that playful learning can and should be used as a classroom method that fosters creativity, curiosity and […]
Bridging the Gap: Data Insights & Global Strategies for Accelerating Educational Recovery
“Advocates have two really important roles to play here. One is to push, one is to demand that equity be at the center of conversations about resource allocation and policy […]
The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care & Education
This partner webinar, moderated by Ellen Galinsky with Families and Work Institute, provided a powerful look into the disconnect between early care and education in the United States as reflected in Dan Wuori’s new book. […]
Ready, Set, Go: Realizing the Potential of Out-of-School Time to Deliver High-Quality Programming for Early Learners and Parents
The September 24, 2024 Peer Exchange Learning Conversation, moderated by Marjorie Sims of Ascend at the Aspen Institute explored the importance of summer learning, out-of-school time learning and everyday attendance. For […]
The ESSER Funding Cliff Approaches: What States Did & What They Learned
In the September 24, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, CGLR was thrilled to have the rare opportunity to convene and hear from a panel of Chief State School Officers about […]
When Disaster Hits: Philanthropic Responses to Natural and Man-made Disasters
“Let’s stop treating disasters as extraordinary and start building structures and processes for when the next disaster will happen — not if, but when. I can’t stress enough the importance […]
Locked Out of Literacy: Tackling the Illiteracy Crisis Together
The documentary Sentenced explores the devastating impact of illiteracy on children and families across the United States and sheds light on how illiteracy, especially when compounded by generational poverty, can trap individuals […]
Invitation-Only Screening – SENTENCED: A Documentary by Steph Curry & the Children’s Literacy Project
Library of Congress* We realize that many registrants have made travel plans to join us for this important and inspiring event, so we wanted to reach out as soon as possible in […]
Starting School With Success: How Summer Learning Closes Gaps in the Early Years
As is well known, CGLR has long emphasized summer learning as a primary strategy for advancing early school success. We have advocated for the expansion of summer learning opportunities across […]
REBROADCAST – Emergent Bilinguals and English Language Learners: The Sturdy Bridge
https://leo.gradelevelreading.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1.30.24-Bilingual-K-Slides-1.pdf“We do this work because we believe in the cultural, linguistic, intellectual brilliance of our country’s diverse children, and we deeply understand that our schools were not adequately designed to […]
REBROADCAST – Connecting Communities: National and Local Partners Linking Families to the Internet
This rebroadcast begins with comments from Amina Fazlullah of Common Sense providing updates on the current state of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Since the program lapsed in May 2024, […]
REBROADCAST – Education Recovery Scorecard: Results and Implications
During the April 9, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, The Education Recovery Scorecard: Results and Implications, John Gomperts with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading moderated a conversation exploring the results and […]
REBROADCAST – Not Without Teachers: Intentional Teacher Development for Improved Student Outcomes
“Teachers want to do right by their students, and they want to teach using the most evidence-based literacy strategies….So what they need are high-quality professional learning opportunities to specifically collaborate […]
REBROADCAST – Implementation, Replication, Fidelity: How to REALLY Scale High-Impact Tutoring
This April 16, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays Big Bets Working discussion was a follow-on to our session from January 16, 2024, where we explored the evidence and examples that demonstrate […]
Ready on Day One: Strategies and Tools to Support CGLR Community Coalitions With School Success
In our GLR Week session specially designed to unite CGLR community coalitions, community and state leads, partners and funders, we hosted a robust conversation with local field experts and practitioners […]
AI’s Gap-Closing Potential: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges
AI is not to replace teachers. AI is not going to replace the need for critical thinking. It is here to augment and enhance, hopefully lighten teachers’ loads, enable them […]
Building Brighter Futures: National Funders Share Insights on Place-Based Strategies
“This conversation is really about improving outcomes for kids and families. That’s the main thing that we’re focused on in closing gaps in grade-level reading. So, the focus has to […]
The Influence of Social-Emotional Learning: Closing Literacy Gaps in the Classroom
Natalie Walrond of WestEd served as the moderator, introducing the webinar’s focus on aligning research, policy and practice to integrate social and emotional well-being with language acquisition and literacy. She […]
CGLR Salutes Children’s Museums: A Virtual Gratitude Reception
Over the past five years of virtual gratitude sessions, we have celebrated our outstanding partnerships with The United Way, public housing authorities, public libraries, public television and now children’s museums. […]
The Promise and Potential of Play-Based Learning
CGLR has long advocated for playful learning in community spaces such as playgrounds and parks, believing that learning happens everywhere. This week’s session gave us the chance to explore play […]
Ready, Set, Go: Two-Generation Approaches for Kindergarten Success
For the second year, United Way Worldwide (UWW), Ascend at the Aspen Institute and the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) joined forces during GLR Week to launch a three-part series focused on two-generation approaches to […]
Supporting School Attendance in a Time of Changing Norms
During this webinar, John Gomperts with the Campaign for Grade-Level-Reading moderated a conversation exploring the causes behind the widespread spike in chronic absenteeism post-pandemic and strategies to tackle it among education and community leaders. […]
Children’s Books: From Access to Opportunity
“If we don't increase access to rich books that speak to children in a way that really honors their own identity, their community, but also expand the minds of even […]
Beyond Kindergarten: Transition, Continuity and Alignment
The July 9, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, part of our Kindergarten Matters webinar series, highlighted the importance of the kindergarten to first grade transition. In a conversation moderated by […]
HOLIDAY REBROADCAST: EdTech Working: Enhancing Teaching & Learning AND Scaling Needed Interventions
This session was originally recorded live on April 23, 2024. This discussion built on previous sessions exploring EdTech as a tool that increases student engagement and expands the reach of […]
Early Childhood Workforce: Where and How Can AI Support?
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 […]
Beyond Parent-Teacher Conferences: Partnerships That Maximize Student Learning
CGLR has long advocated for productive parent-teacher partnerships and has hosted several webinars in recent years that revealed why “big bets” should be made on this strategy, which has the […]
Every Child Thrives: A Journey in Early Childhood Equity Strategies
June CGLR Community of Practice
Innovative Approaches to Teacher Recruitment & Retention Across Rural & Diverse Regions
During this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Betsy Mijares, Ed.D., with the T.L.L. Temple Foundation moderated a conversation exploring innovative approaches that university and nonprofit leaders are applying in rural and […]
The “Sturdy Bridge”: Ensuring a Seamless Transition to Kindergarten
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 […]
Scaling Evidence-Based Products & Programs Within Districts
“It's an intentional process where we use data to identify needs and then scale interventions that show promising results from initial pilots.” - H. Alix Gallagher, Ph.D., Policy Analysis for […]
Seeding Knowledge: Harnessing Philanthropy to Cultivate Learning in Everyday Spaces
“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 […]
Not Just Nice But Necessary: Family Engagement = A Big Bet That’s Paying Off for Kids
CGLR has long advocated that strategies focused on getting parents and caregivers to take part in their children’s learning progress are a “big bet” with the potential to make more […]
What’s Working to Narrow Academic Achievement Gaps Post-Pandemic: Insights From School Districts and Partners
When we speak of gaps in our education system, we mean those related to access, opportunity and achievement that too many students — especially students of color and who live […]
Back to School: Reducing Barriers to a Successful Start in Kindergarten
This conversation, part of CGLR’s Kindergarten Matters webinar series, focused on actionable supports that could be provided to families as they prepare for their children to begin the kindergarten year. Chrisanne Gayl of Trust […]
Lessons from California’s $2 Billion Settlement: Implementation of State Spending to Advance Equity
During this webinar, John Gomperts with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading moderated a conversation exploring the lessons of a recent historic $2 billion settlement in California on behalf of students who did not […]
EdTech Working: Enhancing Teaching & Learning AND Scaling Needed Interventions
This discussion built on previous sessions exploring EdTech as a tool that increases student engagement and expands the reach of tutoring, literacy instruction and other interventions. We saw EdTech get […]
Foundations for Attendance: Examining How Funders Can Help Reduce Chronic Absence
“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 […]
Implementation, Replication, Fidelity: How to REALLY Scale High-Impact Tutoring
This April 16, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays Big Bets Working discussion was a follow-on to our session from January 16, 2024, where we explored the evidence and examples that demonstrate […]
Meeting Families Where They Are: Unique Strategies for Accessible Resources
“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 […]
Education Recovery Scorecard: Results and Implications
During the April 9, 2024 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, The Education Recovery Scorecard: Results and Implications, John Gomperts with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading moderated a conversation exploring the results and […]
Starting Strong: Developing Foundational Life Skills in Kindergarten
Moderated by Carly Roberts with Overdeck Family Foundation, this session explored the importance of social emotional learning (SEL) and executive function skills for kindergartners, as well as the long-term impact of implementing these programs. […]
Assessing Assessments: Ensuring Quality and Equity in Teacher Licensure
“Every child deserves to learn how to read. And there are many steps that we need to take to make sure teachers are ready to help children. But one of […]
Investing in the Future: Philanthropy’s Role in Strategic Public Financing for Children
In this Funder-to-Funder Conversation, Heather Flaherty of Chuckanut Health Foundation in Bellingham/Whatcom County, Washington, shared the above reflection during a panel conversation that explored the various roles funders can play to generate additional public […]
The Power of Place: Embedding Two-Generation Approaches in Housing Developments
During this webinar, Sarah Haight with Ascend at the Aspen Institute moderated a conversation exploring the power of a two-generation (2Gen) approach, using housing as a platform for programming and partnerships that support both children and […]
Family Engagement Strategies with Learn to Earn Dayton
“We know that educators cannot do this work by themselves, and so it is imperative for all of us as a community to be able to support our children in […]
Expanded Learning = Expanded Recovery: How Afterschool Programs Drive Student Progress
This session explored why a “big bet” on afterschool is working to achieve learning progress with students — so much so that President Biden is prioritizing this big bet in […]
Identifying and Supporting Children With Diverse Learning Needs
Michelle Knapik with the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation moderated an insightful conversation that emphasized the personal and professional commitment to supporting children with learning differences. Before launching the discussion, Knapik reminded attendees of […]
Not Without Teachers: Intentional Teacher Development for Improved Student Outcomes
“Teachers want to do right by their students, and they want to teach using the most evidence-based literacy strategies….So what they need are high-quality professional learning opportunities to specifically collaborate […]
Reading Universe: Scaling Teacher PD for Student Success
The ecosystem for literacy support is growing in a good way. There’s much more available than when Barksdale began its work. What makes Reading Universe distinct though is that it […]
How Summer Learning’s Resurgence and Maximization is Accelerating In-School Learning
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we took the opportunity to explore how summer learning is a “big bet working” for equitable learning recovery. Summer learning is a critical strategy […]
Relationships That Work in CGLR Communities With Coalition Leads, Schools and Other Partners
“True partnerships are intentional in listening to the partner’s needs and what would work best for them. There will be a trust to sustain relationships that create success. A supportive […]
The Science of Reading for Emergent Bilinguals
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, The Science of Reading for Emergent Bilinguals, attendees heard a riveting conversation about current work, initiatives and thoughts around centering English learners and emergent bilinguals […]
Getting All Students Up to Speed Using Evidence-Based Supplemental Reading Programs
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Getting Students Up to Speed Using Evidence-Based Supplemental Reading Programs, co-sponsored with the LEARN Network, moderator Adrienne D. Woods, Ph.D. of SRI International shared the above quote as she […]
Emergent Bilinguals and English Language Learners: The Sturdy Bridge
“We do this work because we believe in the cultural, linguistic, intellectual brilliance of our country’s diverse children, and we deeply understand that our schools were not adequately designed to […]
Engaging Families for Everyday Attendance
In this Big Bets Working session, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) hosted a conversation with practitioners working at the school, district, community and state levels to hear how they […]
Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy: Helping Lean Funders Unleash Their Full Potential
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 […]
Big Bets Working: Keeping the Commitment to Tutoring Alive and Strong
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we focused on identifying and celebrating where and how tutoring — an essential strategy that has the promise of delivering more than the usual […]
Connecting Communities: National and Local Partners Linking Families to the Internet
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. […]
REBROADCAST – The First Month of School and Beyond: Nurturing Attendance Every Day
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 […]
REBROADCAST – The Urgent Need for Effective Child Care and ECE Policy
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 […]
REBROADCAST – Building Parent Power: Fostering a Movement of Informed Learning Agents
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’ […]
Community Messaging to Build Awareness About Early Childhood Programs
“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 […]
Stalled Learning Recovery and Bright Spots from 2023
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 […]
Making Kids a Major Public Priority: Changing the Narrative
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 […]
What Happens (or Doesn’t Happen) in One Generation Affects the Next: 2Gen Strategies for Alleviating Poverty, Part 3
Income Supports and Economic Opportunity
Collaborating for Kids: Climate Change, Environmental Justice and Advocacy
“There are so many various issues, but if we don’t have a livable world, really, what else are we doing? We have to tackle the issue that’s in front of […]
Early School Success: Bolstering the Vital Early Learning Workforce
“I think of philanthropy’s unique role as the ‘shifter’ — how we shift the conversation, the policy and research conversations from ‘here’s how the system is broken’ to actually defining […]
B-flation: New Data Reveals Parent-Teacher Disconnect on Student Learning
In this November 21, 2023 GLR Learning Tuesdays session, co-sponsored by GLR strategic partner, Learning Heroes, we unpacked a new report called B-Flation: How Good Grades Can Sideline Parents produced […]
#BetterTogether: A Collective Impact Coalition’s Journey for Literacy Equity in Detroit
“One of the things that all organizations need to be mindful of is, do they, in fact, have people who’ve ever experienced what real collaboration looks like? What does that […]
Leaps and Bounds: How Early Learning Supports the ‘Mississippi Miracle’
This GLR Learning Tuesdays Partner webinar gave attendees an opportunity to learn about Mississippi’s early learning efforts and gains in reading proficiency. Moderated by Micayla Tatum from Mississippi First, this […]
Early Grade Retention: A Conversation About the Potential Benefits and Risks
“Research also shows that Black, Latino, native students and students from low-income backgrounds are more likely to be retained, and these students are less likely to have consistent access to […]
Making Money Matter
“It is a hugely high stakes issue…..it is not just the investments and money, we need to make sure the policies are there to produce the biggest impact.” Matthew H. […]
Building Parent Power: Fostering A Movement of Informed Learning Agents
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we explored why parent power is so important for changing education systems and achieving equitable learning recovery for students. Expert panelists from national and […]
Bridging the Gap Between Home and School to Boost Attendance and Achievement
“People know that they need to engage families, that relationships are key, but they don’t always connect that to the incredibly important performance indicators we want for kids. That feels […]
The First Month of School and Beyond: Nurturing Attendance Every Day
“One of the biggest things we have tended to do is focus a lot on the parents because they're the ones that bring the kids to the school. So …picking […]
What’s Working: CGLR Communities with Learning-Rich Spaces in Everyday Places
Join us again on November 14 from 12:30-2pm ET for our next Crucible of Practice session!“We believe that it is critical that each of these everyday places and spaces should […]
What Is Next in Learning Recovery? National Organization Perspectives
“The data tells a story. I think one place where we can all improve at all levels is being able to turn this data into information and tell an effective […]
Taking Action: Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery
In 1983, “A Nation at Risk” brought the conversation of education reform to the American public. In the following years, bipartisan accountability efforts such as No Child Left Behind increased […]
Rx Kids: A Prescription for Improved Child Health & Well-Being in Flint, Michigan
Funder-to-Funder Conversation
Beyond the Headlines: What Data Tell Us a Year Later
Last November, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading hosted a GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar discussing the sobering NAEP scores that had been recently released, and this week we explored new reports from Curriculum Associates, National […]
What Happens (or Doesn’t Happen) in One Generation Affects the Next: 2Gen Strategies for Alleviating Poverty, Part 2
High-Quality Early Childhood Education
SOS: New Data Indicate Stalled Progress in Learning Recovery & Some Bright Spots
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 […]
The Urgent Need for Effective Child Care and ECE Policy
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 […]
National Initiatives -> Local Impact: One Year In and A Strong Future
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 […]
Closing the Gap: Improving Attendance for Our Youngest Learners with Attendance Works
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 […]
Preventing Burnout and #Resignation: Investing in Teacher Coaching and Support
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 […]
Play + Relationship + Academics: Teaching in the Ways Kindergartners Learn Best
“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 […]
Following the Science: Bilingualism as an Asset Supporting Early Brain Development
“I think an important way to support educators and bilingual programs and all these issues we discussed today is to continue to make sure that we keep them visible in […]
Reading for Life: The Impact of Child Literacy on Health Outcomes, with Scholastic and Yale Child Study Center
https://youtu.be/JIOYtmHrkX8 “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 […]
Bright Spots and Groundwork: What’s Working in Communities
“We are gratified by the absence of fatigue and the willingness and encouragement of communities to stay the course during the pandemic. As the pandemic appears in the rearview mirror, […]
Global Perspectives on Post-Pandemic Academic Recovery
“There's a misunderstanding that TV is the solution . It's not. It's the passion — that's the solution. What do children have passion for? How can we harness that?...When somebody […]
NCADE Emerging: A Briefing and Conversation With the Institute of Education Sciences
In this special, invitation-only GLR Week engagement held on July 19 at 12:30 p.m. ET, we were honored to be joined by two leaders from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of […]
AI-Enhanced Efficacy: Assisting the Adults Helping Children
“We absolutely do not believe that AI will replace teachers. They can never be replaced. Machines will not love students. Teachers love students.” Eirene Chen of Khan Academy offered this insight during the […]
What Happens (or Doesn’t Happen) in One Generation Affects the Next: Two-Gen Strategies for Alleviating Poverty
In this GLR Week 2023 session, United Way Worldwide, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and CGLR engaged a powerhouse of national and local leaders, including Ralph Smith of CGLR; Ayeola […]
What Happens (or Doesn’t Happen) in One Generation Affects the Next: Two-Gen Strategies for Alleviating Poverty
In this GLR Week 2023 session, United Way Worldwide, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and CGLR engaged a powerhouse of national and local leaders, including Ralph Smith of CGLR; Ayeola […]
Locked Out of Literacy: Causes, Consequences & Costs
“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 […]
Gratitude & Appreciation: Public Television Partners With CGLR
"It is midnight in our world today and the media landscape is cluttered with divisive, uninspiring content. Much the same as it was more than 60 years ago when Dr. […]
Building on Common Ground: A Governor’s Conversation
“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 […]
From Reading First to Reading Legislation With Shanker Institute
“One of the things that we learned is that every state is different, and every state has different abilities and different infrastructure. And what we recognize is that states needed […]
Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning: Continuing the Conversation
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning: Continuing the Conversation, we revisited a session from early 2021 when school district leaders discussed how they were using specific education technology (EdTech) […]
Kindergarten as a “Sturdy Bridge”: Place-Based Investments
Swati 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 […]
Strengthening Kindergarten to Improve PreK-3rd Grade Experiences
“The vast majority of people in our school communities want to create equity oriented educational systems. When we put the pieces together we create the conditions to act. This joyful, developmentally […]
Learning Begins at Home: How Housing Agencies Can Support Attendance and Engagement in School
“Housing agencies are uniquely positioned to reach out and address the challenges families face getting their kids to school.”- Hedy Chang, Attendance Works In this Peer Exchange Learning Conversation, Learning Begins […]
Nurture Connection: The Movement for Early Relational Health
“Early relational health creates a necessary footing for young children to optimally learn and engage in the world around them. It helps children to cultivate relationships throughout their life. It […]
Following the Science: Bilingualism as an Asset Supporting Early Brain Development
“I think an important way to support educators and bilingual programs and all these issues we discussed today is to continue to make sure that we keep them visible in […]
Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls: State Expansion of Education Savings Accounts
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls: State Expansion of Education Savings Accounts, we created a forum for thoughtful and nuanced conversations to go beyond the headlines and […]
Showing up Together: Learning and Attendance Go Hand in Hand
"Every day matters. Instruction builds on the day before. If you miss a day, you can have gaps in your learning. Attendance also helps you build relationships with your friends […]
Diverse Books as “Windows, Mirrors & Sliding Doors”: The Roles Funders Can Play
“Not only do we invest in collaboratives to get books in front of children, but we’re also thinking about funding streams that can support access. We’re thinking about library systems. […]
Third-Grade Retention: A Conversation about Adult Accountability and Student Outcomes
“Creating the sense of urgency as the impetus for systems change is really an interesting motivator, especially as we think about this against our most recent experience and context - […]
Get Delaware Reading’s Strategies for Early School Success
"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 […]
Reading for Life: The Impact of Child Literacy on Health Outcomes
https://youtu.be/KpvNfbnOEmo?si=gm83PavqHQHO_9An&t=228 “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, […]
Leaning into Community-Wide Learning: What It Takes and Where It’s Happening!
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 […]
Community Engagement Initiative: A Framework for Sustainable, Systemic Change
“In our language, it explains who should be at the table with us, and it’s very clear. It’s specific that we need district leadership, county office leadership, students, families, parents, […]
Investing in Kindergarten as a “Sturdy Bridge”: Philanthropic Opportunities
“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 […]
Building a Parent-Centered Ecosystem for Out-of-School Learning
“We believe that it is whole, healthy, functioning communities that produce whole, healthy, functioning individuals.” - Gevonee Ford, Executive Director, Network for the Development of Children of African Descent In […]
How a Community Coalition Mobilized for Early Learning Success
“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 […]
Beyond the ESSER “Funding Cliff”: Local Supports to Sustain High-Impact Tutoring
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we picked up on Part 2 in our series co-sponsored by Overdeck Family Foundation exploring high-impact tutoring as a critical, evidence-based strategy proven to […]
State Investments Taking High-Impact Tutoring to Scale
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 […]
Get To Know MathTalk
This Early Math+Early Literacy “unwebinar,” a part of CGLR's Special Webinar series, features MathTalk as a community-driven approach to embedding early math skills in everyday places and spaces and supporting parents and caregivers in nurturing math joy with their children.
Access & Action: Why Diverse Books Matter
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
Making Summer Count: Philanthropic Opportunities for Summer Learning Acceleration
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.
From Classroom to Community: Investing in Whole-Child Support Systems from Cradle to Career
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays rebroadcast webinar, we continued our series of sessions that follow up on our exploration of state and district spending from the $190 billion Elementary and […]
Bringing Digital Equity to All Students in the Community
This Crucible of Practice Salon features leaders from the Grinnell Education Partnership (GEP) and their digital equity project. This webinar explored how and why GEP, the GLR community in Grinnell, Iowa, addressed the challenge of digital connectivity.
Summer and OST: Smart Investments Outside of School to Accelerate Learning
This GLR Learning Tuesdays session continues CGLR series of sessions exploring state and district spending from the $190 billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) federal fund with this session investigating the $22 billion set-aside in support of comprehensive after-school and summer enrichment
Digital Access and Telehealth: What’s Working, What Are the Challenges and What Are the Opportunities?
The fourth funder workshop in a series hosted by The Patterson Foundation in partnership with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading focuses on digital access and telehealth.
Promoting High-Quality Math and Science Learning in Kindergarten
CO-SPONSORED BY NEW AMERICA “Math classrooms should be spaces where children are encouraged to explore, and teachers are masterful at putting the right questions and tasks in front of them […]
Preventing Burnout and #Resignation: Investing in Teacher Coaching and Support
https://youtu.be/SCOg_upL-nY?si=Sma2p-ib0jEQjZrn&t=316 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 […]
Remake Learning: Philanthropic Opportunities for Enhancing Local Learning Landscape
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.
Early Learning Innovation in a Time of Crisis
“Listening is truly one of our values, and it's so deeply, incredibly important to us, because we would not be here if it wasn't for the families that we serve. […]
Opportunity Culture: Positive Impacts for Educators and Students
https://youtu.be/jFcvcwMWrhY?si=Qkx4lH6_T_20sBQR&t=264 This session opened with an introduction about the program from Stephanie Dean with Public Impact. Dean shared the vision of Opportunity Culture as ensuring every student has consistency with […]
Creating Environments and Conditions for Thriving Kindergarteners
https://youtu.be/RDeZIxmCFvU?si=YGoQ1BTuT9chOFZ4&t=225 “We don’t structure in relationship building into how our schools are organized.” Hedy Chang of Attendance Works offered this reflection during this week's session, Creating Environments and Conditions for Thriving Kindergartners. Her data overview, […]
Learning to Read: Applying Universal Design for Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=226&v=iD8jgzQ-uAU&feature=youtu.be “Being an educator is an incredibly difficult job….One of the greatest joys that I've experienced is working with kids and having a chance to be a classroom educator. I […]
Smart ESSER Investments: Leveraging Edtech for Equitable Learning Acceleration
https://youtu.be/mJ8wmTFOak4?si=xb9qqc2qDv4ENoMZ&t=256 In this week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays Webinar, Smart ESSER Investments: Leveraging Edtech for Equitable Learning Acceleration, we launched our series of sessions that follow up on our recent exploration of state and […]
Closing the Gap: Improving Attendance for Our Youngest Learners
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar focuses on the critical importance of creating deep relationships with families and caregivers to address the extraordinarily high levels of kindergarten chronic absence occurring in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Closing the Gap: Improving Attendance for Our Youngest Learners with Attendance Works
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 […]
Learning How States, Districts, and Educators are Strengthening Kindergarten
https://youtu.be/xRqgK8JjHlY?si=clknon2tG3KD8olh&t=274 I think that over the course of the past 15 to 20 years the concept of kindergarten as building the foundation for students has been lost, and kindergarten has […]
Transforming the Early Literacy Landscape Using Collective Learning with 313Reads
https://youtu.be/cUIuQIrxlls?si=cuDM5Of3A-DD42Ia&t=222 “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, […]
NAEP Scores: Behind and Beyond the Numbers
“Our schools are community institutions first and foremost. One of the things we were really grateful for during the COVID era, because we were community institutions, because our teachers and […]
Developing Math Joy and Identity Through Literature
In this Special Webinar, a part of the Early Math+Early Literacy series, panelists dive into children's books that make readers think about math in a whole new way! Attendees become […]
United Way & CGLR: Aligning for Impact in Education
“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 […]
Follow the Money: $190 Billion to Confront Challenges, Seize Opportunities
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “Follow the Money: $190 Billion to Confront Challenges, Seize Opportunities,” we had the chance to look back and look ahead at investments made by […]
Real-Time Data & Equitable Learning Recovery: Emerging Pathways to Smarter Decisions
“Everybody has a role, one of the first things I think we need to do is to get parents and family and community on board and understanding this isn't going […]
Play + Academics + Relationships: Teaching in Ways Kindergartners Learn Best
“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 […]
The Critical Role of Professional Development in Creating High-Quality Early Learning Environments
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.
Safety and Belonging First: Advancing Well-Being for Learning Recovery
In this week's webinar Safety and Belonging First: Advancing Well-Being for Learning Recovery, we explored how to best cultivate well-being for students — and their parents, caregivers and teachers — […]
Beyond the Headlines: What Can We Learn From a Closer Look at NAEP?
“I think the real challenge coming out of the pandemic is how can we get our students who are in poverty the resources they need? What can we learn from […]
What’s Next? Identifying & Advancing Initiatives to Accelerate Learning Recovery
“How do we take this moment that feels really hard, and say, 'What can we do better'? ... 'How does research and how we’re mobilizing knowledge and disseminating knowledge change, […]
A Pivotal Year: Kindergarten’s Important Role in Education
Last week’s GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “A Pivotal Year: Kindergarten’s Important Role in Education,” featured Swati Adarkar, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning at the U.S. Department of Education, Ellen Galinsky, author […]
The Surprising Importance of Early Math
"Over a lifetime, positive effects of early math compound, and we all benefit from investing in children’s early math learning–birth through grade 3.” – Douglas Clements, Ph.D., University of Denver […]
Co-Funding Models to Support Local and State-Wide GLR Efforts
“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 […]
Beyond Bricks & Mortar: How Housing Agencies Can Promote Showing Up to School
Moderated by Hedy Chang of Attendance Works, this session featured an inspiring conversation about how schools and housing agencies should and could be working together to address the skyrocketing rates of chronic absence. […]
Bringing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Every County
“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 […]
Engage Every Student: Building Community Connections to Advance OST
In this Learning Tuesdays webinar, we followed our September 6 briefing on the National Partnership for Student Success with a focus on a second new federal initiative designed to assist schools and communities […]
Getting Results With REACH: A Model for Successful Learning Loss Recovery
"We wanted to provide students with an opportunity to support their continued learning." Eric Becoats, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools at the William Penn School District, offered this reflection during the October […]
First 10 School-Community Partnerships in Action
"Innovative communities across the country are creating a First 10 roadmap that addresses teaching and learning, partnerships with families and comprehensive services, and First 10 provides a framework, a guided […]
Learning From the Bright Spots: Examining Student Achievement Data During
“We should definitely view pandemic recovery as a process that will take place in multiple institutions in society.” — Dan Goldhaber, Director of CALDER at American Institutes for Research Hedy […]
First 10 School-Community Partnerships in Action
"Innovative communities across the country are creating a First 10 roadmap that addresses teaching and learning, partnerships with families and comprehensive services, and First 10 provides a framework, a guided […]
Parent Teacher Home Visits and the Power of Trusting Relationships: 25 Years of Impact
“It changed my life. This is the tool that kept me in my teaching career until today. This is the one thing that brought me joy at the end of […]
Reenvisioning School Staffing
“The vision begins with expert lead teams of educators who share the work. This isn't something we made up. It's based on research about how teachers thrive, what they want, […]
250,000 Caring Adults: Rolling Out A New National Effort
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “250,000 Caring Adults, Rolling Out a New National Effort,” attendees had the chance to receive an early briefing on the National Partnership for Student Success, a new […]
$65B to Advance Digital Equity: Leverage Opportunities and Challenges of State and Local Funders
“This is an incredible moment for local advocates ― whether you're in the digital inclusion space or anything else that rides on top of digital inclusion, issues like immigration, housing, […]
Building Blocks for the New Normal: Mining the Bright Spots and Silver Linings
“Kids need all of these kinds of supports. They need health care, food and housing. But, I don’t want to get away from the fact that they also need good […]
A Virtual Gratitude Reception, CGLR Salutes Our Public Library Partners
GLR Week 2022 launched with a session celebrating public libraries as a mainstay of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading since its inception. Public libraries serve as trusted centers of communities in […]
Systems of Resilience: Critical Factors for Decision-Making in Dallas ISD
"Data isn't a hammer, it's a flashlight showing the way." - Cecelia Leong, Attendance Works. Moderated by Cecelia Leong of Attendance Works, the July 12, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesday Learning Loss […]
Stabilizing the Early Care and Education Workforce: Increasing Compensation ASAP
“It is our duty and your responsibility to participate and to speak up. Your voice is your currency. No one can tell us what our profession needs better than the […]
State Strategies for Advancing Equitable Learning Recovery
Moderated by CGLR Senior Fellow Barbara O'Brien, last week's timely GLR Learning Tuesdays session, co-sponsored by ExcelinEd, explored strategies for scaling a tutoring strategy statewide. To start the webinar, Casey Sullivan Taylor, Policy Director of Early Literacy at ExcelinEd, described her […]
Prioritizing Early Relational Health in Tutoring for Equitable Learning Recovery
In this May 31, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, attendees had the chance to learn from early childhood expert Junlei Li, Ph.D., of the Harvard Graduate School of Education who […]
Elevating Educators: Investing in Teacher Professional Development for Long-term Payoff
https://youtu.be/mvYAa7zczXc Lisa Roy, Ed.D., moderated an inspiring and informative conversation with Sharon Hopper, Sarah Brown Wessling, Michelle Accardi and Cindy Hadicke, Ed.D. Each speaker shared details of their organizations’ professional development programs and resources, and talked […]
Innovations in Parent & Educator Supports Critical to Kindergarten Readiness
“The secret sauce is the coaches. They’re amazing in working with these families and helping them understand the value of a good education.” Jim Lund of Waterford Upstart offered this reflection in this […]
Showing Up Matters for R.E.A.L. (Routines, Engagement, Access to resources and Learning
"This is not a time for blame, this is a time for partnership and for collective action to rebuild the positive conditions for learning in our schools that we know […]
ParentChild+: Engaging Families in Early Math Through Home Visiting
"Math is innately in us” With the above quote, Jermell Witherspoon of Zeno reminded participants of the math brilliance that lives within each and every child during the inaugural session […]
Seizing the Moment: Closing the Digital Equity Gap
In this May 3, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays session, Amina Fazlullah, Senior Director of Equity Policy at Common Sense, opened the conversation with a description of the historical inequities in internet connectivity […]
Building Hope & Opportunity: Philanthropy’s Role in Catalyzing Children’s Savings Accounts
Imagine a philanthropic investment so powerful that it changes how children think — something that embeds the conviction, “I have a future. Education is for me, not for somebody else.” […]
Centering Equity in Home-School Relationships: Lessons From Research and Innovative Districts
https://youtu.be/mHAyYAV4lJY “We call our report Unlocking the ‘How’ because we keep hearing from schools and systems across the country that the pandemic has elevated the awareness of need for family engagement, but […]
How Education Decision-Makers are Maximizing Summer to Accelerate Learning Recovery
https://youtu.be/js9h8twmkoM “We're encouraging states to start thinking about relegating this work of summer learning into the structure of the State Education Agency (SEA) because, rather than having this be something […]
Innovations in In-School Tutoring: Updates From Research and On-the-Ground Efforts
“Kids must become code breakers in order to ultimately become meaning makers. In other words, reading is the operating system of education, and if our kids can’t read, they can’t […]
Accelerating Reading Through High-Dosage Tutoring in Mississippi Communities
In this session, moderator Ashley Parker Sheils, Ph.D., Program Director at MiSsion Acceleration, talked about how and why MiSsion Acceleration started, described their funding proposal, discussed their definition of what high-dosage tutoring is […]
Advancing Digital Equity for Powerful Learning
In the January 11, 2022 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, Jean Claude Brizard, CEO of Digital Promise, served as moderator and shared some data that demonstrated the impact the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Community Investments in Parent-Child Relationships Drive School Readiness
https://youtu.be/CEY7VpyTaKQ?si=AbH7wzdjapyUCDqI&t=288 “By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize […]
Promotion Policies in 2021: Ensuring Students Are Ready, Not Retained
In this session, moderator, Kelly Butler, Chief Executive Officer of Barksdale Reading Institute, provided us with some historical context of the debate around retention and promotion in the U.S. education system and in […]
Inspiring Young Minds Through Out-of-School STEM
https://youtu.be/aRNqKhhzcDU “Out-of-school time, which makes up close to 80 percent of a child’s life, can build the academic and social-emotional skills that help students succeed. Specifically for Science, Technology, Engineering, and […]
Learning at Home and in the Classroom: Innovation in Curricula and Professional Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh15TByN7VM “Education is a human endeavor. It’s all about student relationships and we really need to see caregivers, parents and family members as partners in the critical work of ensuring […]
New Jersey Tutoring Corps: Lessons in Accelerating Learning Recovery
“I love math,” said a pre-K scholar in one New Jersey Tutoring Corps site, while another shared, “I’m going to be a math teacher when I grow up.” These two […]
The Kindergarten Exodus: Why, Where and What We Can Do Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5mAlVXiCE This GLR Learning Tuesdays discussion, titled The Kindergarten Exodus: Why, Where and What We Can Do Now, featured the voices of committed district superintendents from across the country sharing their […]
Bringing Digital Equity Home: The Suncoast Digital Access for All Initiative
In this Crucible of Practice Salon, members of the Digital Access for All (DA4A) initiative at The Patterson Foundation in the Suncoast region of Florida discussed how “more than money philanthropy” […]
Meeting the Moment: Decisions to Accelerate Equitable Recovery and Transformative Change
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The CARE Fund: A Philanthropic Initiative to Meet the Moment
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Reach Out and Read Partnerships for Collective Impact
In this webinar, Nikki Shearman, Ph.D., Chief of Strategic Initiatives with Reach Out and Read, started by providing an overview of Reach Out and Read, their partners and their four conditions for […]
State Chiefs Meet the Moment: Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery
This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Lillian M. Lowery, Ed.D., Vice President of Student and Teacher Assessments at Educational Testing Service, and Jeimee Estrada-Miller, CGLR Senior Fellow — continues our ongoing webinar series digging […]
Learning Happens Everywhere: Returning to School With a Whole Child Perspective
This learning and engagement opportunity was the third 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 […]
Meeting the Moment? State Policies and Spending Decisions
This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Lillian M. Lowery, Vice President of Student and Teacher Assessments at Educational Testing Service and Jeimee Estrada-Miller, CGLR Senior Fellow — featured a panel of national leaders discussing […]
The Role of Higher Education in CGLR Communities
In this webinar, community representatives discussed the critical role universities and colleges play in their coalitions. The conversation started with Monica Chavez-Silva, Vice President of Community Engagement and Strategic Planning, and Melissa Strovers, […]
A Peak Into Playful Learning Classrooms: What Success Looks Like
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 […]
Parent Coaching to Promote Kindergarten Readiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5mAlVXiCE Carly Roberts of Overdeck Family Foundation opened the session by providing an overview of the Foundation’s Early Impact portfolio, which includes a focus on families as a part of its efforts to […]
Tools of the Mind: Key Steps in Creating A Culture of Learning
This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Ellen Galinsky, Executive Director of Mind in the Making and Chief Science Officer with the Bezos Family Foundation — followed-on to the spring GLR Learning Tuesdays event co-sponsored with Education […]
Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery: District Chiefs as Deciders
This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Jeimee Estrada-Miller, CGLR Senior Fellow — featured a panel of outstanding district leaders from across the country and AASA, the School Superintendents Association, to […]
Readers to Leaders: Empowering Community in Dalton-Whitfield County, Georgia
In this session, Suzanne Harbin of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia presented an overview of the Early Childhood Initiative, gave context for the Dalton-Whitfield County community and addressed the progress they’ve […]
Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery Post-COVID: A Few Big Bets, Part II
This session reprised the CGLR component of a recent Education Week Leadership Symposium and built on the June 1 session’s exploration into “big bet worthy” programs and strategies that can deliver transformative change to accelerate learning recovery […]
Accelerating Equitable Learning Recovery Post-COVID: A Few Big Bets, Part I
https://youtu.be/NEzw5stLirQ This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by John Gomperts, CGLR Senior Fellow —reprised the CGLR component of the recent Education Week Leadership Symposium focused on “big bet worthy” programs and strategies that can […]
Teachers Respond: What the Data Imply About Fall 2021 K–3 Classroom Composition
This learning and engagement opportunity featured a panel of K–3 teachers from across the country, along with leaders of teacher support and advocacy organizations, responding to the data indicating changes […]
Parents Speak: Ready for Bold Change in K–12 Education
This learning and engagement opportunity — moderated by Christine Patterson of the Walton Family Foundation — explored the findings from recent national parent polls designed to collect perspectives on schooling and what their children need to […]
Utilizing Learning Science to Reach Every Reader
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 […]
Building Multifaceted Business Champions for Grade-Level Reading
During the webinar, the speakers gave insightful, practical advice on working with business leaders in a variety of ways to contribute to grade-level reading. Moderator Sara Watson, founder and former […]
Family Resource Centers: A Key to Supported Families and Thriving Communities
In May 11, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, panelists shared the valuable and often unheralded work of “America’s best kept secret”: Family Resource Centers (FRCs). More than 3,000 community-based and […]
Technology to Accelerate Learning: Tech-Enabled Solutions to Address Learning Loss
Moderated by Ipek Bakir of the Overdeck Family Foundation, this conversation featured four leaders in the tech-enabled curricula and solutions space, Michelle Brown of CommonLit, Neena Hendershott of Zearn, Claudia Miner of Waterford UPSTART and Karin Wu of MIND Research Institute, creator of ST Math. […]
The Fall K–3 Classroom: What the Data Imply About Composition, Challenges and Opportunities
Co-sponsored by Education Week (EdWeek.org), this learning and engagement opportunity — co-hosted by the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy and moderated by its Director, Ryan Lee-James, Ph.D. — explored the implications of data […]
Building on the American Rescue Plan Act: What’s Next for Reducing Child Poverty
With the American Rescue Plan Act projected to reduce child poverty by half, this session convened funders, researchers and advocates in exploring the roles that funders and other stakeholders can […]
$22B for Afterschool & Summer: Realizing the Opportunity for Communities
In this April 20, 2021 Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar moderated by Rhonda H. Lauer, President and CEO of Foundations, Inc., attendees heard Kylie Wheeler, Project Manager of Children’s Funding Project, and Terry K. Peterson, […]
ARPA Bets Big on Accelerating Learning Recovery
Thank you for registering for our April 13 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar: ARPA Bets Big on Accelerating Learning Recovery, part of our Learning Loss Recovery Challenge series. Panelists included John B. King of The Education Trust; Patricia […]
Why Shattering the Wall Between Home and Schools Is a Good Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ytX8wFy5G4 Panelists included Stephanie Sharp of Overdeck Family Foundation (moderator), Dionne Aminata of Illustrative Mathematics, Adrienne Austin of New York City Department of Education, Alejandro Gibes de Gac of Springboard Collaborative, Heejae Lim of TalkingPoints and Vidya Sundaram of Family Engagement Lab. […]
EdTech and Accelerated Learning: The Future Is Now
This learning conversation centered on how to ensure that we leverage the power of educational technology to accelerate learning — particularly now, as millions of students have fallen behind due […]
Making It Real: Philanthropic Strategies for Promoting Parents as Essential Partners
With the experiences of pandemic-precipitated school closures causing a growing number of schools to recognize and embrace the necessity of strong family engagement, this session engaged a panel of education […]
State Policy Initiatives to Fast Track Expansion of High-Dosage Tutoring
During this webinar, part of our Learning Loss Recovery Challenge series, moderated by John Gomperts, former President and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, we learned from Jeremy Anderson, President of Education Commission of the States, about trends in […]
EdTech: How School Leaders Are Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Student Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32JjWQnF_Fg During this webinar, part of our Learning Loss Recovery Challenge series, Griselda Young-Ojeda, Professional Learning Consultant with Imagine Learning, moderated a discussion of school district leaders and their partnering executives of edtech companies, including Darin Brawley, […]
COVID-19 & Learning Loss: What the Data Tell Us About Moving Forward
This GLR Learning Tuesdays session included an exploration of data on pandemic-precipitated learning loss coupled with a discussion on how summer programs could be an integral part of efforts to […]
Understanding the Data & Why We Must Act with Urgency
In the summer 2020, CGLR looked at predictive learning loss data to inform its planning. With actual student data from the fall 2020 in hand, it was important to return […]
The Way Forward: Guided by Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Our 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays kicked off with a two-part series to highlight the voices of teachers, providing us an opportunity to recognize the heroic efforts of educators who worked […]
Educators Respond: The Way Forward: Guided by Lessons Learned the Hard Way
This session — the second in a two-webinar series — lifted up the perspectives of teachers in reflecting on the past year and the path forward. The first session, held […]
Translating Good Research Into Good Policy: William T. Grant Foundation
This Funder-to-Funder Conversation featured the William T. Grant Foundation and some of its recent investments to promote equitable opportunities and outcomes for young people. The session explored analysis of the […]
Scaling Playful Learning: How Civic Infrastructure Can Support Young Learners
During this Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar, participants were introduced to the myriad ways that cities and communities can advance playful learning outcomes and developmental milestones for children, with an emphasis […]
Consultative Conversation: Scaling High-dosage Tutoring as a Strategy to Recover Lost Learning
During this conversation, John Gomperts, former President and CEO of America's Promise Alliance, moderated presentations by four thought leaders with proposed initiatives designed to scale high-dosage tutoring in response to today's education crisis. The review […]
Scaling High-Dosage Tutoring: A Strategy for Learning Loss Recovery
During this December 1, 2020 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, John Gomperts, former President and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, moderated a discussion with leaders from prominent national tutoring programs who […]
The Federal Role in Advancing Digital Equity
In this webinar, the fifth in a series on digital equity, Dr. Vikki Katz of Rutgers University moderated a conversation around the role of the federal government in helping to close the […]
Philanthropy Stepping Up to Ensure Access to Online Learning: An Opportunity to Address Learning Loss
This webinar, a part of the Funder to Funder Conversations series, continued the exploration of the challenges posed by widespread digital inequities in a time when approximately half of students are expected […]
Promising High-Tech/High-Touch Solutions for Back to School
During this webinar, part of our Learning Loss Recovery series, Lisa Roy, Director of Program Development with the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, moderated a discussion of leading superintendents who are innovating "high-tech and […]
How States Can Close the Distance Learning Digital Divide: A Look at Three State Models
In this third webinar focused on digital equity, Dr. Laurey Stryker, consultant at The Patterson Foundation, moderated a conversation with Amina Fazlullah, General Counsel at Common Sense Media (CSM) and Jack Lynch, Director […]
Leveraging the Power of Data and Relationships: Reducing Chronic Absence in Rural Settings
During this webinar, Hedy Chang of Attendance Works moderated a conversation with local leaders, representing five rural areas in Maine, Mississippi, and Oregon, as they shared how they have worked […]
Connecting the Digital Deserts: Some Promising Early Solutions
This August 4, 2020 Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar built on a May 26, 2020 session that had examined the scope, extent and dimensions of digital inequity in the United […]
Family and Community Math: An Essential Part of an Early Learning Strategy
This Funder-to-Funder Conversation began with reflections from Liz Simons, Board Chair of the Heising-Simons Foundation, who explained her personal commitment to helping math flourish in early childhood settings. Simons shared […]
Supporting Children and Families in the First Three Years
During the inaugural session of our Funder-to-Funder Conversation series, Janet Froetscher, President of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, shared highlights from the growing body of science pointing to […]
Supporting Parents at Home ― An Essential Step to Mitigating Learning Loss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOauO1XVLQI During this webinar, one of a seven-part series focused on the Learning Loss Recovery Challenge, Johanna Edens Anderson of the Belk Foundation moderated a conversation exploring a range of programs […]
Protecting the Building Blocks of Early Learning: An Urgent Priority
In this special GLR webinar, Dr. Jacqueline Jones of Foundation for Child Development moderated a conversation exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children and strategies and resources […]
Underconnected yet Eager to Learn: Confronting Digital Inequities
In this May 26, 2020 GLR Learning Tuesdays Learning Loss Recovery Challenge webinar, Lisa Guernsey of New America moderated a rich conversation to help attendees understand the scope, extent and […]
Using Behavioral Science to Help Families Help Kids
Helen Westmoreland kicked off the conversation, stressing how home-school communications are more important than ever with schools remaining closed for months. She also encouraged attendees to reflect on the many […]
Centering Parent-Teacher Partnerships on Student Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvLhIWZIGn0 During this webinar, Roberto Rodríguez of Teach Plus moderated a conversation with Maria Paredes and Meaghan Wells as they described innovative new approaches to increasing family engagement in children’s […]
Co-designing Solutions with Families: The Early Learning Lab’s Parent Innovation Institute
During this webinar, we discussed how communities can use human-centered design to ensure that programs and services meet families’ needs and help them succeed. Sheetal Singh and Mansi Kakkar of […]
Making Hopes & Dreams the Center of the Parent/Teacher Relationship
Gina Martinez-Keddy of the national nonprofit organization Parent-Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) shared the history of PTHV and presented PTHV’s Five Non-Negotiable Core Practices: visits are voluntary for all; educators are […]
Prioritizing Parent/Teacher Relationships: Lessons From 50 Years of Research and Practice
This November 19, 2019 GLR Learning Tuesday webinar -- the second in the Productive Parent/Teacher Partnerships series co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New Year -- provided a deep dive […]
The Essential Ingredients in Building Productive Parent/Teacher Partnerships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM9FuFEbzgM Our first PPTP webinar — The Essential Ingredients in Building Productive Parent/Teacher Partnerships — was moderated by CGLR Chief Learning Officer Yolie Flores and headlined by Dr. Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer […]
