#EngageEquitably Helps Education Leaders Communicate More Effectively with Families and Communities
[…] guide the communications efforts of schools and districts. The specific strategies and messages they use will depend on factors like their reopening plans, guidance they receive from public health officials, and the status of COVID-19 in their schools and community. LAB and the Donovan Group will continue to add to these resources as the […]
Processes and Principles for Public Schools Navigating Uncertainty and Adapting to Change
[…] and come together to adapt and respond to the dark winter that has fallen? It was May, a few months into the pandemic, when the Brooklyn LAB leadership team realized it was time to rethink school in order to adapt to the seeming realities of re-entry and resurgence. With cases rising and no hope […]
The Key to Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Schools
[…] the vaccine is an understandable response to the lived experience of systemic racism. Schools can, and must, step in to move the conversation around vaccine hesitancy forward. Public schools are uniquely positioned to help ensure that local communities have the information and confidence that they need to get vaccinated. We can work to address […]
Closing the Digital Divide for Parents: A COVID-19 Story
By: Antonio B. Boyd. The Resilient Schools Project, a Future of School initiative, partners with districts, like South Carolina's Dorchester School District Two, to develop ongoing responses to instruction disruptions during the 2020-21 school year, including support for parents.
How New Tech Schools Jumpstarted El Paso’s Education Transformation
[…] languages on three continents gave Juan Cabrera a pretty good sense of the relationship-building, problem-solving, and communication skills demanded by the innovation economy. After taking on the leadership of El Paso Independent School District, Cabrera hosted town hall meetings with parents and staff members from all over the sprawling border city. Every meeting confirmed […]
How to Set Middle Schoolers On a Long-Term Path of Success
[…] self-advocacy, and high school selection in middle school is key to setting students up for success. For example, over 100 elementary and middle schools within the Chicago Public School (CPS) district have implemented a curriculum to help foster self-advocacy and student readiness. In CPS, the freshman on-track metric is used as an indicator of […]
A Spatial Paradigm for Thriving Learners
School environments can be designed to foster holistically thriving learners. Fielding International’s Thriving Paradigm explains how.
Outdoor and Experiential Learning Across the Country
[…] are critical thinkers and purposeful agents of change. Outdoor Classrooms Mukilteo Elementary, north of Seattle, makes great use of the Leader in Me program to empower student leadership. They finish each year with a family portfolio picnic where they review quality student work. Students also help to develop a nature preserve with trails and […]
When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
[…] the challenge of transitioning to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication, fired up and propelled by their professional cultures of distributed decision-making and leadership. The stories we’re hearing from them fall neatly into the emerging framework for transformational change that is emerging from this project, and from a partner initiative […]
Equity and ESSER: How Schools Can Embrace a Participatory Approach to Amplify Family Voices in Budget Planning
[…] that we have the resources, there is a unique opportunity to ensure that all children—especially those whom we have historically marginalized and minoritized—have access to a high-quality, public education in their neighborhood.” But for the design and provision of funds to fulfill the needs of the community—particularly parents and caregivers—administrators must open their doors […]
