Nurturing Instructional Leadership
By Felix Fernandez For 85 years, the Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL) has worked to financially empower the Black community within the DC Metro area. Through the GWUL Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI), the organization helps clients understand the underlying factors that influence their financial decisions, including past financial behaviors and trauma, institutional racism, and …
By LaMicah Lindsey Families and communities are invaluable partners in education. They have insights, skills, and other resources that can help students learn and grow. Research shows that when school districts collaborate with families and communities authentically – when communication is open, points of view are respected, practices are equitable, and decision making is shared …
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By Risa Sackman, Felix Fernandez and Liza Rodler As schools across the U.S. struggle to recover learning loss due to COVID-19, one school we work with is using a data-driven approach that is helping students make up lost ground. For the past seven years, we have partnered with the GHR Foundation to help a network …
By Bethe Almeras, Director of Early Care and Education and Disabilities Studies and Services, FHI 360 We know how hard it is to fit professional development into your busy days, especially with the additional work that schools and districts are required to do during the ongoing pandemic. That’s why the Connected & Engaged team partnered with national experts to create an …
By: Risa Sackman, Director of US Education, FHI 360 Most educators I know are not sad to be turning the calendar pages to 2022. This year presented myriad unprecedented challenges for students, their teachers, and their families. Learning is hard work in the best of conditions, but disruptions in schooling, ongoing vacillation between in-person and remote school, fears and sickness, and social isolation made 2021 a …
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By Nancy Gannon, Senior Advisor for Teaching and Learning, FHI 360 Throughout this global pandemic, educators have worried about the well-being of young people. But we also know our teachers and principals have faced unprecedented stress and disruption. How do we make sure we are tending to the well-being of educators? When schools reopened, many …
By Patrice Williams, Deputy Director, US Education, FHI 360 We have long known that for high school students, college and career readiness programs are the best pathway to long-term success. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools to focus on students’ more immediate academic, mental health, and social-emotional needs, shifting time and resources away from …
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By Bethe Almeras, Director of Early Care and Education and Disabilities Studies and Services, FHI 360 “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning is all linked.” — Eric Jensen While the attention to the emotional well-being of our students has grown over the last decade, it has never been more …
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