Collaborative Evaluation Design

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 …

How Districts Can Tap the Power of Families and Communities

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 …

Examining COVID-19 learning recovery: A case study in individualized learning plans

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 …

College and Career Readiness during COVID: Rebuilding the Pathway to Success

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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