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America’s Promise Alliance Announces Effort to Raise Awareness and Catalyze Action around How Learning Happens

April 25, 2019

Today, America’s Promise Alliance announced plans to advance the national conversation about How Learning Happens and highlight the importance of fostering young people’s development and well-being.

Type: Press Release

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

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

America’s Promise Alliance Launches Major National Youth Employment Initiative Aimed at Achieving Full Employment for Young People by 2030

April 10, 2019

The ‘YES Project’ Brings Together Employers, Stakeholders, and Advocates to #PledgeYES by Committing to Connect Youth with Employment Opportunities as Part of Effort to Grow Robust Youth Workforce, Ensure Young People are ‘Ready, Connected, Supported’

Type: Press Release

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: YES Project

From A Nation At Risk: To A Nation At Hope

March 12, 2019

A growing movement dedicated to the social, emotional, and academic well-being of children is reshaping learning and changing lives across America. On the strength of its remarkable consensus, a nation at risk is finally a nation at hope. Find out more and get involved.

Type: Resource

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

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: National Commision on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development

A cheaper, quicker approach to social-emotional learning?

March 04, 2019

This story https://hechingerreport.org/a-cheaper-quicker-approach-to-social-emotional-learning/ was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Embracing the Whole School, Whole Community, and Whole Child:

February 13, 2019

On January 31, 2019, Child Trends released an impressive policy analysis examining the representation and coverage of the WSCC framework in state statutes and regulations. The report offers an extensive look at how the framework manifests nationally and includes detailed analyses for every state.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to Support Policymakers and Advocates

January 31, 2019

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, How Learning Happens

America’s Promise Alliance Announces Gregg Petersmeyer as New Board Chair, Former Chair Alma Powell Steps Into New Role as Chair Emeritus

January 31, 2019

America’s Promise Alliance today announced that its Board has tapped Board Vice Chair C. Gregg Petersmeyer to serve as its new Board Chair. Former Chair Alma Powell will step into a new role as the Board’s first Chair Emeritus.

Type: Press Release

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

Responding to Trauma through Policies that Create Supportive Learning Environments

January 31, 2019

This brief introduces a Trauma-Informed Policy Framework to Create Supportive Learning Environments to help state officials create supportive learning environments that meet the needs of students ...

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth

January 29, 2019

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth was authored by Shannon Varga, Max Margolius, Catalina Tang Yan, Anna Skubel, Marissa L. Cole, and Jonathan F. Zaff, at the Center for Promise. This research is part of GradNation State Activation, an initiative of the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates to 90 percent. WestEd is one of three grant recipients for this national effort. Pearson is the sole sponsor of this study and its dissemination.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Pearson, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

State laws promoting social, emotional, and academic development leave room for improvement

January 15, 2019

Policymakers increasingly recognize that social and emotional development plays a critical role in students’ ability to learn, and are enacting policies to encourage the integration of social and emotional learning (SEL) into school curricula.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens