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New Report on Summer Learning Benefits (January 2021) These findings are
important because research has shown the summer months, when school is out of
session, to be a time of widening achievement and opportunity gaps between low-income
students and their wealthier peers.
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Video: Social and Emotional Learning in Action
(January 2021)
As part of our Partnerships
for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative, six communities across the
country are exploring whether and how children benefit when schools and
out-of-school-time programs work together to build students’ SEL skills, and
what it takes to make this happen.
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Teachers are
confident they can help build students’ social-emotional skills, but say they
could use more support to do so, according to a RAND survey
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The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations (August 2020)
Financial success for arts organizations begins with artistic excellence and cultural relevance, suggest interviews with leaders of 20 high-performing organizations.
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SEL+OST=Perfect Together: A Conference Report (August 2020)
Afterschool,
summer and other out-of-school-time programs can be ideal settings for children
to learn and build social and emotional well-being—when skilled and trusted
adults are there to guide them, according to this conference report.
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New Media Gets New Audiences into an Old Art Form (February 4, 2020)
Research, collaboration and web analytics help Seattle Opera make opera more meaningful to connected audiences.
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How Communities Can Put Data to Work for Young People (January 28, 2020)
Four leaders in the out-of school-time field offer practical advice for harnessing data across organizations and schools.
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Ambassadors, Advice and Strategic Discounts Bring Newcomers to Minnesota Opera (January 21, 2020)
A mid-western company taps its networks and carefully crafts promotions to introduce new audiences to opera.
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Research About the Arts and Kids: A Fertile Area for Inquiry (January 14, 2020)
Conference explores research about the availability, implementation and value of teaching children about the arts.
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum Is Now (Also) a Family Destination (January 07, 2020)
New strategies and a new space have helped the museum welcome young visitors and sow the seeds for future growth. |
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What 'Extraordinary Districts' Do Differently (Dec 17, 2019)
Education Trust podcast points to principal leadership, equity and early literacy as levers for improvement. |
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What It Takes to Make Summer a Time of Growth for All Young People (December 10, 2019)
Co-author discusses landmark National Academies of Sciences report on summer and children. |
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Building Impact: A Closer Look at Local Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education (December 2019)
A study of initiatives in eight cities concludes that they are a calming force and "show promise". |
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Year's Top Blog Posts Signal Interest in SEL, School Leadership (Dec. 4, 2019)
Read the most popular stories The Wallace Foundation published this year and the research that inspired them.
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Performance Reviews Become a Tool for Developing Principals (November 26, 2019)
A new approach to evaluation helps a Tampa Principal focus on building parent engagement. |
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This Holiday Season, Start Planning for... Summer? (November 19, 2019)
Research shows that successful summer learning programs begin with early planning. |
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New Hiring Approach Helps District Make the Right Match Between Principal and School (November 12, 2019)
See how Prince George's County, Md., taps its talent efficient - and effective - principal placement. |
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Staff Expertise, Careful Communications to Parents Fuel Successful SEL Efforts (November 06, 2019)
A forum raises considerations for those looking to integrate social and emotional learning into out-of-school settings. |
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20th Lights On Afterschool: 1 million people, 10,000 events, 1,000s of lightings and billboards (October 25, 2019) |
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Keeping Current on the State of Knowledge About Principals and APs (October 22, 2019)
Scholars dig into latest research on three crucial topics in School Leadership. |
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Putting Data to Work for Young People: A Ten-Step Guide for Expanded Learning Intermediaries (October 2019)
A step-by-step plan for collecting, analyzing, and managing data to improve decision making.
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Five Steps to Generate Discussion about Arts Audiences (October 01, 2019)
Story Series and companion discussion guides offer examples of audience building as a learning tool for arts organization.
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Shaping Summertime Experiences: Opportunities to Promote Healthy Development and Well-being for Children and Youth (September 26, 2019) |
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Universities and Districts Team Up and Better Prepare Principals (September 24, 2019) A four-part video series shares early lessons from seven district-university partnerships that are rethinking principal preparation.
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What if Districts Focused Not Just on Preparing and Hiring Principals But Also Retaining Them (July 9, 2019)
A New York City coaching Program helps keep principals - both new and veteran - on the job.
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Video: Series Shows How Universities, School Districts Can Team Up to Redesign How Principals are Prepared
Watch Principal Preparation: A roadmap for Reform and see how local partnerships are undertaking a complex process to rethink the way school leaders are prepared for the demands of the job. |
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The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning
A Wallace Perspective identifies five practices that are key to the work of effective principals. |
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Systemic Approach to Developing School Leaders Pays Off for Principal Retention (April 26, 2019)
Research suggests principal pipelines could reduce school leader turnover.
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Education Leadership: Evidence and Implications (April 2019)
A Technical Assistance Briefing for U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor. |
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Memorandum: ESSA Evidence Review of the Principal Pipeline Initiative (April 2019)
A RAND study showing student achievement and principal retention benefits from principal pipelines meets research standards necessary for funding of pipelines under Title I and other sections of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. |
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Principal Pipelines: A Feasible, Affordable, and Effective Way for Districts to Improve Schools (April 2019)
Schools in large districts that built principal pipelines markedly outperformed similar schools in comparison districts in both reading and math, a groundbreaking RAND report finds. |
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The Benefits of Arts Education for Urban Tweens (February 26, 2019)
Webinar highlights publications and emerging lessons from the Boys & Girls Club's quality arts program. |
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Wallace Foundation Shares Strategies for Sustaining a Pipeline for Well-Prepared Principals (February 14, 2019) |
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Could Federal Funding Help Pay for Arts Education in Your School? (January 23, 2019)
Authors of a new report discuss ways in which schools could get federal support for arts education and the results they could expect from it.
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Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out (May 2017) This in-depth guide to 25 evidence-based programs - aimed at elementary schools and out-of-school-time setting providers - offers information about curricular content and programmatic feautures that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their Social and Emotional Learning programs.
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Converting Family into Fans: How the Contemporary Jewish Museum Expanded its Reach (May 2016)
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco moves to a larger space and secures a nine-fold increase in family visitors of all backgrounds. |
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Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (December 2015) What does it mean to be an effective principal? An updated set of standards for the job spells out 10 essentials, including the ability to support rigorous instruction.
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Improving University Principal Preparation Programs: Five Themes From the Field (Feb.
2016)
What is the state of university-based principal preparation programs? How are these essential training grounds of future school leaders viewed - by themselves as well as by the school districts that hire their graduates? Do the programs need to improve? If so, by what means? This publication answers those questions. |
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Leadership Succession Planning
AASA, The School Superintendents
Association, was engaged by the Wallace Foundation to conduct a mixed
method study of succession planning in 700 of the nation’s large student
enrollment urban school districts in an effort to identify exemplar
districts with records of successfully sustaining such programs.
While approximately 10 percent of the
districts were identified with elements of succession planning,
approximately half were identified as having promising practices worthy
of further study. Four districts were identified as exemplars.
Learn about the promising practices uncovered and the work of the four exemplar districts.
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Principal Pipeline Initiative
Six large school districts have been participating since 2011 in The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, a six-year effort to train, hire and support talented principals.
Reports: Building a Stronger Principalship, Vol. 4: Evaluating and Supporting Principals (January 2016)
This report is the fourth in a series examining the six districts' experience in the initiative designed to help them build larger pools of strong principals and then study the results. It explores the districts' work to change their approach to principal performance evaluation so that it focuses on working with principals, especially novices, to grow into their jobs and concentrate on improving teaching and learning in their classrooms.
Videos: In this series of eight videos, the superintendents of these districts discuss the details of their effort, lessons they have learned and advice they can offer to other districts.
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