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Recess Lab

December 03, 2018

With more than 20 years of experience working with elementary schools, Playworks launched Recess lab to support principals, teachers and other school staff to rediscover the power of play.  Schools with a healthy culture of play see fewer fights, fewer injuries, and fewer trips to the principal’s office - and students com back to class ready to learn.

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Safe Places, Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Health and Wellness, Thriving

SOURCE: Playworks

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Advocates Set New Goal to Graduate 90 Percent of Homeless Students by 2030, Enroll 60 Percent in College by 2034

March 05, 2018

Homelessness (ICPH), Civic Enterprises and America’s Promise Alliance launched Education Leads Home, a first-of-its-kind national campaign focused exclusively on addressing the needs of the 1.3 million homeless students enrolled in America’s public schools.

Type: Press Release

promises: Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Say Yes to Education and America’s Promise Alliance Announce Leadership for Weiss Institute

September 08, 2017

The Weiss Institute, a new nationwide partnership that helps local communities expand their capacity to support students as they prepare for college and other postsecondary education, announced today that it has selected Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey to be its first president.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, College Gap

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: College & Career, Thriving

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Recommit2Kids, Weiss Institute, Center for Promise

Press Release Type: Press Release

Mientras la nación enfrenta el problema de la disparidad en la graduación, un nuevo estudio de investigación sobre los estudiantes de Massachusetts cuya lengua materna no es el inglés sugiere una vía hacia el progreso orientada por los jóvenes para educad

May 11, 2017

BOSTON, 11 de mayo de 2017 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Los jóvenes cuya lengua materna no es el Inglés (FLNE por sus siglas en inglés) representan el segmento de más rápido crecimiento de población dentro de las escuelas públicas de los Estados Unidos. A pesar de que se ha demostrado que los estudiantes FLNE tienen un alto nivel de optimismo y motivación en lo que se relaciona con el progreso académico, los estudiantes FLNE siguen graduándose en un menor porcentaje que el promedio nacional. Muchos estados están buscando nuevas formas de apoyar a esta población estudiantil.

Type: Press Release

TAG: English Learners

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Press Release Type: Press Release

I Came Here to Learn

May 11, 2017

Students whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) make up the fastest growing segment of public school students across the country. In Massachusetts, one in five students is classified as FLNE. This report explores their experiences, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

As Country Grapples with Graduation Gaps, New Research on Mass. Students Whose First Language is Not English Suggests Youth-Led Path Forward for Educators, Policymakers

May 11, 2017

Youth whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) represent the fastest growing segment of the United States public school population. Despite evidence that FLNE students display high levels of optimism and motivation for academic advancement, they continue to graduate at lower rates than the national average.

Type: Press Release

TAG: English Learners, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Center for Promise

Press Release Type: Press Release

Defining Webs of Support: A New Framework to Advance Understanding of Relationships and Youth Development

March 01, 2017

In this brief, the authors present a web of support framework to describe how youth relate to adults and peers in their lives, and how these relationships provide the supports necessary for young people to thrive. This framework is composed of three key layers, each of which contributes to a young person’s development: relationships, resources, and networks/social capital.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Voice, Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Thriving, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, Mentoring

SOURCE: Center for Promise

GradNation Campaign Encouraged by Record U.S. High School Graduation Rate

October 17, 2016

Today the White House and U.S. Department of Education announced that the nation’s high school graduation rate now stands at a record high, up from 82.3 percent in 2014 to 83.2 percent for 2015.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, ESSA

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Thriving

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Who’s Minding the Neighborhood?

October 04, 2016

The role of adult capacity in keeping young people on a path to graduation  

Type: Resource

TAG: Low-Income, Using Data, Black/African-American

promises: Effective Education

channels: Thriving

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Building Blocks for Learning

February 13, 2016

This paper began with a conversation about children. At Turnaround for Children, they wanted to understand how children acquire the skills and mindsets for learning. Which skills do we need to build in children for them to be successful in school? And if we know what they are, can they be taught? How does growing up with adversity impact the acquisition of these critical skills?     

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Social and Emotional Learning, Thriving

SOURCE: Turnaround for Children