How Field Catalysts Accelerate Collective Impact
This article examines how the Tamarack Institute united the efforts of local collective impact initiatives across Canada to accelerate systems change in support of a living wage.
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Rural Community Schools: Early Lessons from Leslie County, Kentucky
This webinar highlights key takeaways from a case study exploring a full-service community schools approach in rural Leslie County, KY. In addition, the webinar features a panel discussion with key stakeholders who are implementing the strategy in Leslie County. View the recording and webinar slides. To learn more about the effort and early lessons, view the case and accompanying video.
Implementing Full-Service Community Schools in a Rural Setting: Early Lessons from Leslie County, Kentucky
From career exploration to school transitions to mental health services, students in Leslie County Schools are actively engaged in a diverse range of tailored support systems that most rural schools lack the capacity to accommodate. One may ask: who are these educators and how are they offering such a diverse range of personalized student supports when schools across the country are notoriously under-funded and short-staffed? EdRedesign sought to find out in the following case. This case has an accompanying video. Access the full case here.
WATCH: Implementing Full-Service Community Schools in a Rural Setting: Early Lessons from Leslie County, Kentucky
From career exploration to school transitions to mental health services, students in Leslie County Schools are actively engaged in a diverse range of tailored support systems that most rural schools lack the capacity to accommodate. One may ask: who are these educators and how are they offering such a diverse range of personalized student supports when schools across the country are notoriously under-funded and short-staffed? EdRedesign sought to find out. Learn more by reading our case study and watch the video.
EdRedesign: Advancing the Cradle-to-Career Collaborative Action Field So All Children Can Thrive
In this video, EdRedesign leaders discuss our mission, vision, and work. Through advancing cradle-to-career, community-based, personalized systems of support and opportunity, we champion a broad, holistic model of child development and education that goes beyond schools. Watch and learn more.
Massachusetts Fiscal Mapping Tool
Developed by the Children’s Funding Project in partnership with The EdRedesign 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. The tool itself is a searchable, sortable, downloadable data set containing information on all of the state and federal funding streams for child and youth services/supports that are used in Massachusetts. Access the Fiscal Mapping Tool here.
Metro Nashville Public Schools Navigator Handbook 2021-2022
2021-2022 This handbook, created by the Metro Nashville Public Schools in TN, provides guidance on the district's Navigator initiative, and in particular the Navigator role and key responsibilities. It also contains sample scripts and other helpful resources, including translation services, crisis intervention services, and basic needs, among others. Read the handbook here.
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity
This is a research article by Jessica Drescher, Anne Podolsky, Sean F. Reardon, Gabrielle Torrance. They use nearly 430 million standardized test scores, including test scores from more than 6,500 rural school districts, to describe educational opportunity in rural America. Although they find modest differences in outcomes between rural and nonrural students overall, these disparities are larger for specific socioeconomic, racial-ethnic, and geographic groups. They also find that the relationship between socioeconomic status and achievement is somewhat weaker in rural areas compared to
David Gonzalez
David Gonzalez is a research assistant at EdRedesign and a Junior at Harvard College double concentrating in Psychology and Economics. He was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and is the son of two public school teachers. Being raised by educators meant David got an unique inside perspective from his parents about the shortcomings of education. Although he is unsure about what he wants to do in the future, he has always had a soft spot for equitable access to a quality education and opportunities beyond the classroom, which is what motivated him to work at EdRedesign. He is undertaking his own
10 Guiding Principles for Success Planning (English version)
Through our initial research, we identified 10 Guiding Principles that embody our comprehensive vision for Success Planning. These principles are intended to inform the overall design of Success Planning efforts rather than be prescriptive. Operationalizing each principle varies based on individual communities’ needs and preferences. View the 10 Guiding Principles in Spanish.