Webinars

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, prominent education and civil rights experts discuss progress, setbacks, and strategies for educational equity. This conversation promises valuable insights into the strides made and the work still ahead as they explore the historical, current, and future landscape of American education through the lens of Brown.

Although progress has been made since Brown, racial inequality is an ongoing challenge that continues to impact the educational experiences of Black students and other students of color. To address these disparities and build a system where every student can learn and thrive, it is essential to identify existing barriers and implement policies that can ensure fairness and adequacy.

Effective schools foster identity-safe environments where all students feel included. Experts discuss designing instructional strategies that celebrate diverse identities using culturally responsive practices and Universal Design for Learning as interrelated frameworks.

While every state has unique needs and different approaches to funding education, state policymakers face similar challenges, including declining student enrollment, the needs of different student populations, instability in state budgets, and the reduction of federal funds, and can learn from other states’ approaches.

Relationship-centered high school redesign fosters academic growth, emotional development, and student well-being. Experts discuss practical approaches to transform your educational setting in this insightful webinar.

As state policymakers consider solutions to chronic absence, much can be learned from community schools and other whole child approaches, which have emerged as research-based strategies to address barriers to attendance and help schools reengage students.

State policymakers are looking at teacher residencies, service scholarships, and other strategies discussed in this legislative prep session webinar as they look to simultaneously improve the quality of preparation and provide a long-term solution to teacher shortages.

State policies impact both teaching conditions and equitable student access to well-qualified teachers. What policy approaches influence teacher supply, demand, and retention, and what can your state consider to better support teachers and students?

From strategies that help build and retain the teacher workforce to ones that re-engage students and address inequitable education funding, state policymakers have much to accomplish in the 2025 legislative session. LPI and partners offer a timely webinar series, offering nonpartisan research, tools, and state examples to help inform effective state policy solutions.

An overview of the 10 features needed to transform high school from the factory model to one supporting whole child learning, featuring examples from California schools.