Early Lessons in Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools

May 2018

Produced in collaboration with the Partnership for Resilience (the Partnership), this report highlights early lessons from the Partnership's efforts to create school-health-community partnerships to foster and build the resilience of children living in Illinois.

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Personalizing Education at Scale: Learning from International System Strategies

December 2016

In this report, we investigate a wide range of education reform strategies through six cases, including British Columbia, England, Finland, Ontario, Rio de Janeiro, and Scotland, and describe specific and promising policies and practices related to braiding health and human services, personalized learning, and out-of-school learning.

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Sustaining Cross-Sector Systems of Opportunity for Children (Executive Summary)

October 2019

This executive summary accompanies our report, which documents the progress of our By All Means communities in coordinating supports and opportunities to better serve children and identifies key factors affecting the long-term sustainability of collaborative systems.

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Sustaining Cross-Sector Systems of Opportunity for Children (Full Report)

October 2019

This report documents the progress of our By All Means communities in coordinating supports and opportunities to better serve children, identifying key factors affecting the long-term sustainability of collaborative systems.

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Building City-Wide Systems of Opportunity for Children (Overview)

April 2018

This overview accompanies our report, which explores initial lessons from our By All Means communities and examines what elements enable and accelerate cross-sector collaboration, as well as what challenges impede it. 

Building City-Wide Systems of Opportunity for Children (Full Report)

April 2018

This report explores initial lessons from our By All Means communities, examining what elements enable and accelerate cross-sector collaboration, as well as what challenges impede it. 

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity Through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

January 2019

Written in partnership with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, this case that applies a mayoral perspective to explore cross-sector collaboration, governance, and the changes in Louisville, KY that were made to help support children and families.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville (Teaching Note)

January 2019

Written in partnership with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, this teaching note accompanies a case that applies a mayoral perspective to explore cross-sector collaboration, governance, and the changes in Louisville, KY that were made to help support children and families.

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

January 2019

Written in partnership with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, this conversation note accompanies a case that applies a mayoral perspective to explore cross-sector collaboration, governance, and the changes in Louisville, KY that were made to help support children and families.

Building City-Wide Systems of Opportunity for Children (Executive Summary)

April 2018

This executive summary accompanies our report, which explores initial lessons from our By All Means communities and examines what elements enable and accelerate cross-sector collaboration, as well as what challenges impede it.... Read more about Building City-Wide Systems of Opportunity for Children (Executive Summary)

Children's Cabinet Toolkit: A Roadmap for Getting Started in Your Community

July 2019

Co-developed by the Children’s Funding Project, The Forum for Youth Investment, and the Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesgin) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this toolkit is designed to equip mayors and their staff with practical information and resources to launch a children’s cabinet in their local community.

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Measures of Success: A Measurement Framework for Children's Cabinets (Slides)

July 2018

Our Measures of Success framework is intended to support others who are in the early stages of developing measurement frameworks for collaborative work.

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Success Plans: Promising Tools for Customizing Student Supports and Opportunities (Full Report)

April 2019

Through our Success Plans research project, we examine how personalized plans-tangible tools for identifying children and youth's strengths, interests, and needs and matching them with tailored supports and opportunities-have the potential to reshape our education system.

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Success Plans: Promising Tools for Customizing Student Supports and Opportunities (Executive Summary)

April 2019

Through our Success Plans research project, we examine how personalized plans-tangible tools for identifying children and youth's strengths, interests, and needs and matching them with tailored supports and opportunities-have the potential to reshape our education system.

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Success Plans: Promising Tools for Customizing Student Supports and Opportunities (Full Toolkit)

April 2019

Through our Success Planning research project, we examine how personalized plans—tangible tools for identifying children and youth's strengths, interests, and needs and matching them with tailored supports and opportunities—have the potential to reshape our education system.

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Success Plans: Promising Tools for Customizing Student Supports and Opportunities (Infographic)

April 2019

Through our Success Plans research project, we examine how personalized plans-tangible tools for identifying children and youth's strengths, interests, and needs and matching them with tailored supports and opportunities-have the potential to reshape our education system.... Read more about Success Plans: Promising Tools for Customizing Student Supports and Opportunities (Infographic)

Redesigning Systems of Child Development and Education to Ensure Success for Students with Learning Differences: A Guide for Cities and Programs

May 2018

In this practical guide, we highlight four key areas to consider when building a system of supports and opportunities that addresses young people's unique needs, including those with learning differences.... Read more about Redesigning Systems of Child Development and Education to Ensure Success for Students with Learning Differences: A Guide for Cities and Programs

Innovative Financing to Expand Services So Children Can Thrive

September 2019

This policy brief identifies 10 innovative methods to finance services for children and youth.... Read more about Innovative Financing to Expand Services So Children Can Thrive

Massachusetts Fiscal Mapping Tool

November 2019

Developed by the Children’s Funding Project in partnership with the Education Redesign Lab, the Massachusetts Fiscal Mapping Tool is intended to help communities search for and build a customized fiscal map of existing and potential sources of federal and state funding to support local programs and services for children and youth in Massachusetts.... Read more about Massachusetts Fiscal Mapping Tool

Connecting the Dots: A Guide to Leveraging Federal Funding Streams

January 2018

This map of federal funds and programs, developed by Jobs for the Future,  provides an important organizing tool to communities that seek to support place-based, cradle to career and aligned efforts for disconnected youth ages 14-24.... Read more about Connecting the Dots: A Guide to Leveraging Federal Funding Streams

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