Planning Tool for Developing a System for Thriving and Learning

SoLD Alliance Governing Partner American Institutes for Research (AIR) has released a new tool, Science of Learning and Development Alliance…

Charting a Path to COVID Recovery for All Young People

Across our nation, educators, school and district leaders, families, and students are focused on the difficult task of COVID recovery — working to keep children safe, address the losses caused by the pandemic, and accelerate learning for each and every young person. Recovery will happen, but it will take significant time and investment. There is a real risk that our shared interest in moving past the pandemic will create a false mindset that we can quickly “return to normal” in our schools and move linearly toward recovery. This mindset and approach will fail our young people.

SoLD Design Principles for Community-Based Settings

Throughout 2020, the combination of COVID-19, the economic recession, and increased racial reckoning have further revealed the systemic inequities and injustices built into our current systems. Yet, these events have also demonstrated the resilience and resourcefulness of families and of the community-based organizations that work with them, in concert with and independently of schools.