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Video Series: How Learning Happens

Jun 24 2020
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The How Learning Happens video series, created by Edutopia and featuring LPI President and CEO Linda Darling-Hammond and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, explores how educators can integrate social, emotional, and academic skills to support and guide diverse learners.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

School-Based Health Centers: Trusted Lifelines in a Time of Crisis

Jun 18 2020
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Oakland Unified's school-based health centers, part of the district's full-service community schools initiative, are a trusted source of information and services for students and families in the district. This institutional trust is essential to providing care in "typical" times, and became even more critical when schools closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, enabling staff to identify and support both ongoing and emerging student and family needs.

Topics COVID-19, Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access
Newsletter

Newsletter: June 2020

Jun 17 2020
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In this issue of the Reimagining College Access newsletter: RCA webinar series, higher education institutions across the nation are choosing to go test optional, new report on school profiles.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Blog

County-Level Coordination Provides Infrastructure, Funding for Community Schools Initiative

Anna Maier

Jun 09 2020
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A community schools initiative, launched by the Los Angeles County Office of Education in September 2019, provides personnel, infrastructure, and funding support for 15 high schools throughout the county. The structures and relationships developed as a result of the initiative enabled schools’ rapid response to support students and families during the COVID-19 crisis.

Topics COVID-19, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design, Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

How Will Each of Us Contribute to Racial Justice and Educational Equity Now?

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Janel George

Jun 04 2020
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Those of us who work in education must acknowledge that our school systems have been complicit in perpetuating systemic racism, including through the criminalization and marginalization of Black children. Our goal in this moment must be to dismantle these discriminatory policies and replace them with approaches that honor the dignity of the lives of Black children as they do of all children.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

Leveraging Social and Emotional Learning to Support Adults in the Time of COVID-19

Justina Schlund

May 27 2020
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Adults—including teachers, principals, and family members—play important roles in supporting children’s social and emotional development. But to create the relationships and learning environments that promote students’ SEL, adults themselves need to feel empowered, supported, and valued. This is especially true in the post COVID-19 world, given the disruption to lives and routines caused by the pandemic.

Topics COVID-19, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

Healthy Child Development Depends on Quality Child Care—And So Does the Economy

Hanna Melnick

May 21 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced childcare and preschool providers around the country to temporarily close their doors and financial burdens may force thousands of centers to shut down permanently. This could lead to the loss of as many as 450,000 child care slots, jeopardize efforts to reopen the economy, and undermine the development of our youngest learners.

Topics COVID-19, Early Childhood Learning, Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

Leveraging Social and Emotional Learning to Support Students and Families in the Time of COVID-19

Justina Schlund,

Roger P. Weissberg

May 19 2020
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School systems have implemented a variety of practices to support students and families during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting disruption to traditional schooling. These include developmentally appropriate strategies for understanding and regulating emotions and practicing self-care, guiding families on how to create supportive home environments, and fostering an overarching commitment to creating connectedness across physical distance.

Topics COVID-19, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

A New “New Deal” for Education: Top 10 Policy Moves for States in the COVID 2.0 Era

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Tara Kini

May 19 2020
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The Covid-19 pandemic puts a stark light on an emerging truth—education as we know it is over, and we must think of “school” in deeply different ways. Here is my top ten list of policies that could allow us to seize this moment to strengthen learning for our students—today and into the future.

Topics COVID-19, Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement
Brief

Reopening Schools in the Context of COVID-19: Health and Safety Guidelines From Other Countries

Hanna Melnick,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Melanie Leung,

Cathy Yun,

Abby Schachner,

Sara Plasencia ,

Naomi Ondrasek

May 15 2020
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Schools across the United States canceled in-person classes beginning in March 2020 to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many states and districts, school buildings are closed for the duration of the school year. Policymakers and school leaders are making plans to reopen schools for the next academic year, and some are preparing to do so sooner. To reopen schools safely, state and district leaders will need to address several important health considerations.

Topics COVID-19, Equitable Resources and Access

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Report

Improving Education the New Mexico Way: An Evidence-Based Approach

Dec 01 2020

In New Mexico, children and young people who face barriers to school success from poverty and marginalization are the norm, not the exception. A year-long study from LPI is designed to provide New Mexico policymakers, stakeholders, leaders, and other interested parties a research perspective on the challenges facing education in the state and to identify evidence-based policies that could build a high-quality, equitable system.

Report

Sustainable Strategies for Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California

Nov 12 2020

High-quality teacher residencies have the potential to address workforce challenges, including teacher shortages, underprepared educators, and, when adequately funded, workforce diversity. In 2018-19, California provided seed funding to jump-start or scale such programs. Recognizing that state funding may not always be reliable, programs are also working toward greater financial sustainability. This report examines the current state of teacher residencies in California and strategies these programs use to sustain funding, particularly in the wake of COVID-19.

Report

Elementary School Principals' Professional Learning: Current Status and Future Needs

Oct 27 2020

Research has found that high-quality professional learning opportunities for principals can build leadership capacity. This study reports on findings from a survey of elementary school principals on access to high-quality professional learning. The survey showed that, while most had access to professional development, far fewer were able to participate in authentic learning opportunities addressing deeper learning, student well-being, and equity.

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