APTT Interview In this Interview, Dr. Maria Paredes and Kari Pryor discuss Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT), a model of family engagement that is research based and aligns grade-level learning concepts, student performance data, and family-teacher communication and collaboration. Dr. Paredes is a Senior Engagement Manager at WestEd and leads Family Community Engagement and APTT. Pryor
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by Danila Crespin Zidovsky, 2019 Meade Fellow This year, I was selected as one of two Edward J. Meade Policy Fellows through the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL). In June, I traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with several nonprofits, foundations, and elected officials focused on early
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While everyone wants a great first day, what if we told you that you could have a successful school YEAR, starting with just one conversation? IEL has had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Gina Martinez-Keddy from Parent Teacher Home Visits, and D’Lisa Crain and Alicia Thomas from the Washoe County School District to learn
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In 2018, we live in a country where across 32 states, our African-American and Hispanic children are living in poverty at a rate at least twice as high as their white peers. In some states, this rate increases to four or five times as high. This kind of inequality is so hard to process that
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AERA/IEL Education Policy Forum Luncheon May 19, 2017 Michael FeuerDean and Professor of Education Policy,Graduate School of Education and Human Developmentat the George Washington University&President of the National Academy of Education The Rising Price of Objectivity From the earliest days of the new American republic, the scientific community has been engaged with public policy, and
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