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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 […]

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 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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]