Summer Institute: Transforming Place through Neighborhood Leadership brings together community leaders from across the country to accelerate the impact of cradle-to-career place-based solutions to open and expand pathways to social and economic mobility for children and youth.
Hosted by William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone and The EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, MA, the three-day event will focus on critical issues, including:
- Engaging schools and local government through cross-sector collaboration
- Developing cradle-to-career public policies
- Cutting-edge research on place-based strategies
- Assessing gaps on opposite ends of the cradle-to-career continuum
- Assessing and tracking impact along the cradle-to-career continuum
- Building a funding pipeline and best practices around both public and private funding
- Developing investible narratives for neighborhood-based cradle-to-career work
This video, produced by William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children's Zone, features highlights from the 2024 Summer Institute: Transforming Place through Neighborhood Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education:
Founded in 2014 by Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, EdRedesign provides catalytic support to the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field to drive systems-level change and open personalized pathways to well-being, educational attainment, civic engagement, and upward mobility. To support this growing field to effect transformational change that serves the needs and talents of individual children and youth, our work focuses on talent development, actionable research, our Institute for Success Planning, and our By All Means initiatives. Our mission is to ensure the social, emotional, physical, and academic development and well-being of all children and youth, especially those affected by racism, poverty, and disinvestment.
William Julius Wilson Institute (WJWI) at Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ):
William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children's Zone is the leading authority on and resource for place-based, people-focused solutions that close opportunity gaps nationwide. Led by Geoffrey Canada — founder and president of HCZ — and guided by a generation of evidence, WJWI delivers insights, influence and impact by tailoring solutions locally and scaling results nationally. Together with on-the-ground collaborators and national place-based partners, WJWI opens pathways to social and economic mobility in neighborhoods across America. It is named in honor of one of the nation’s most prolific African American scholars on poverty and inequality. To learn more, visit hcz.org/william-julius-wilson-institute/.