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Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be

Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be

In Season 2, Episode 8, Sofia Russo, Principal of High School for Media and Communications located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about what is possible when school leaders, teachers, students, families and community members are given opportunities to engage in school redesign. With just a little support […]

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U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action

U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action

We are excited to share that the U.S. Department of Education has published a Dear Colleague Letter calling upon Institutions of Higher Education to increase the number of their students involved in supporting local P-12 students and communities in an effort to further aid pandemic educational recovery.

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Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students

Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students

The evidence is clear. Students need to attend school on a regular basis to succeed. If the purpose of school is to help students learn and development, then being there is important. Until quite recently, however, we did not regularly measure the extent to which the students enrolled in a school were attending on a […]

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Amplified Voices Series: Bearing Strange Fruit

Amplified Voices Series: Bearing Strange Fruit

Tues., Sept. 20 at 5:30 – 8:00pm ET: Enoch Pratt Free Library is excited to have John Hopkins researcher Dr. Richard Lofton PhD and community organizer Mr. Larry Simmons, of the Nobody Asked Me Campaign, in the first of its Amplified Voices series to discuss the state of education in the city as seen through […]

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Diverse Coalition of Education Groups Announces Support for the National Partnership for Student Success Launched Today by Biden-Harris Administration

Diverse Coalition of Education Groups Announces Support for the National Partnership for Student Success Launched Today by Biden-Harris Administration

An all-in effort to help students recover from the impacts of the pandemic and thrive Baltimore, MD (July 5, 2022) – A diverse group of public and non-profit organizations are announcing their support for the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), a coordinated, research-based, locally-driven, all-in effort to help all students recover from the impacts […]

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Reports, Robert Balfanz, Uncategorized, Vaughan Byrnes | Comments Off on Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years

Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years

Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years

By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes Executive Summary Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years builds on the work conducted for a previous study, “Connecting Social-Emotional development, Academic Achievement, and On-Track Outcomes: A Multi-District Study of Grades 3 to 10 Students Supported by City Year AmeriCorps Members.” Released in May of 2020, that […]

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Designing Education Podcast Launches

Designing Education Podcast Launches

Conversations with leaders in education from around the country on bold new ideas and research-based strategies for redesigning American education to more effectively engage all students and equip them for the challenges of today’s workplace and world.

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Using a Continuous Improvement Approach to Help More High School Students Succeed

Using a Continuous Improvement Approach to Help More High School Students Succeed

by Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz on March 16, 2022

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Bearing Strange Fruit: Early Findings on School Infrastructure

Bearing Strange Fruit: Early Findings on School Infrastructure

Nobody Asked Me presented early findings to their research on March 10, 2022.

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HomeWork Guide for Parents

HomeWork Guide for Parents

HomeWork: Lessons Learned in the Home for Success in School & Life is a resource book for training parents and those in parenting roles to guide their child(ren) in the “home” ways of supporting their learning in school and beyond. HomeWork strives to equip parents well, and build their confidence for success in this role. Through […]

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