Cross-sector Collaborations for Education Show Promise, Face Challenges
This report examines collaborations and their early impact on local school systems and educational outcomes.
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Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs
This study of 45 social programs takes a broad look at efforts that were able to extend their reach through partnerships.
Benny Goldman
Benny Goldman is a research associate and former Linda G. Hammett Ory Fellow at EdRedesign. He is a PhD student in the economics department at Harvard University, a research affiliate at Opportunity Insights, and a Stone Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at Harvard Kennedy School. His research is primarily in labor and public economics with a focus on race- and class-based economic disparities in the US. Benny studies the sources of these disparities and evaluate policies that aim to alleviate them.
Michelle Segura
Michelle Segura works as the events intern at EdRedesign, where she plays a role in helping the planning, producing, and executing internal and external events. She holds an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Throughout her academic journey, Michelle has focused on understanding how spatial environments influence social behavior, with a particular emphasis on Mexico City. Her projects have spanned diverse topics, ranging from analyzing genocides and combating discrimination to studying elderly communities and recreational projects for kids
What Makes an Effective Backbone Leader
To find out what contributes to an effective and sustainable backbone, the EdRedesign Lab at Harvard University interviewed backbone leaders and field-building organizations about their experiences. Earlier this year, they released a report on the most critical skills and competencies required for a backbone leadership team to succeed when doing collective impact work. We talk with Tauheedah Jackson, Judy Touzin, and Rob Watson from the Harvard EdRedesign Lab to learn more about these essential backbone leadership competencies, and how these abilities can be spread across multiple team members
Pam Haering
Pam began her career as an advertising executive, working on global consumer brands, before becoming the VP of International Ad Sales Marketing for Time Warner-Turner (TWT) in New York. While at TWT, she managed marketing teams charged with finding innovative ways of driving incremental client revenue for CNN, TNT, and Cartoon Network in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. With her success at TWT, Pam was recruited to design and launch an integrated marketing division for the CBS Corporation. After CBS was acquired by Viacom, Pam became the SVP of Viacom Plus, a division she built and co-led
2024 Institute for Success Planning Virtual Learning Series: Supporting Success Through Authentic and Effective Family, School, and Community Partnerships
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We are excited to announce our 2024 Institute for Success Planning Virtual Learning Series. Open to the public, the Virtual Learning Series will provide an opportunity to engage with experts in the field, share your expertise and community wisdom, participate in deep dive discussions, and gain additional tools and resources to advance the movement toward greater personalization to ensure equitable access and opportunity for all. Our first session will focus on grounding family engagement strategies in an evidence-based framework to help guide school and community leaders in identifying
Integrated Student Support: State Policy Toolkit
A robust body of research illuminates how policymakers and practitioners can effectively support healthy child development and learning by implementing “whole child” approaches in schools that address students’ needs and cultivate students’ strengths. When well implemented, these approaches can use existing resources—across education, social services, health and mental health, and youth development—more efficiently and effectively, creating short- and long-term benefits for taxpayers. This toolkit is designed to help policymakers navigate the challenges that schools are facing in the wake of
Rob Watson from The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education Selected as 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholar
Our deputy director Rob Watson joined 59 other exemplary professionals to form the 2024 Class of Presidential Leadership Scholar. Rob's project will focus on advancing a new national movement for “Promise Cities” that aim to establish place-based public-private partnerships to eliminate intergenerational poverty and place young people and families on pathways to upward mobility and civic leadership. He will develop this project in partnership with local leaders across the nation and from his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York. Read the full press release.