ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. This declaration set forth a series of internal policies to protect undocumented students in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. In order to target these deficiencies, LPS launched a new math course to help students who were performing below grade level get back on track.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I But certainly the leadership transition for the nonprofit comes during a period of incredible upheaval—arguably a crisis—in early childhood education. So Kang is listening.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

Advocacy is exhausting. We live in our self-selected echo chambers. If schools are businesses, we should all expect total customization. But at what cost? School often sucks. Bureaucracies are the worst. Democracy is hard. But the solution to these problems is not as simple as saying: "make it more like a business!"

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

When students saw the results of the work they had done, this affirmed how identity, advocacy and doing the work yields positive results. This presentation resulted in the district adopting a new food program for our district that was culturally appropriate, appealing, and good for students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

The teachers wanted to discuss the need for more anti-racist professional development at Lusher and the possibility of increasing diversity among Lusher’s leadership, including on the board of directors, whose seven members include two people of color, according to school administrators. Talbott denied this, as did Gleghorn.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

However, teaching policy fellowships can potentially be the most impactful route for advocacy. The systems in which we work are broken, and we must have teachers playing a significant role in healing education. Furthermore, expanding your impact beyond the classroom can be transformational.

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