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Bank Street College of Education and Trust for Learning are excited to share a new report, Head Start Reimagined: How Leadership Coaching Unlocks the Potential of Ideal Learning along with the corresponding video (https://lnkd.in/evhRkuYn), that highlights insights on how 27 Head Start leaders across 10 ILHSN programs established, refined, and deepened a shared instructional vision across their programs through coaching.   The report is a toolkit that includes key learnings, as well as a set of practical tools to support implementation in other early learning environments. The Ideal Learning Head Start Network is a growing group of Head Start providers who aspire to create ideal learning environments in their settings. Trust for Learning and Bank Street work together to support this growing group of Head Start leaders as they sustain and enhance their programs in community with each other. Please read, share, and use the report in your efforts to create equitable ideal learning environments for young children. - https://lnkd.in/ent2wM_3

As always new resources from The Children's Equity Project and New America are equal parts inspiring and actionable. This one is so important - a vision for developmentally appropriate, equitable early learning environments that extend all the way through early childhood as it continues into #elementaryeducation. Take a look!

Trust for Learning is hosting the Ideal Learning Head Start Network's annual convening this week! We heard from an incredible panel of ILHSN members who shared their insights about participating in Leadership Coaching with our partners at Bank Street College of Education. Our leadership coaching toolkit has already reached hundreds, be sure to check it out! https://lnkd.in/eMKe_StY

What would it take to support all children and youth to flourish in both their home or native language and English? What is lost for our democracy when children lose their family’s languages? Join us for an insightful discussion on these and other questions on August 8, with Vanessa Goodthunder of C̣aƞṡayapi Waḳaƞyeża Owayawa Oṭi (CWOO) and Dr. Shantel Meek Bustamante of The Children's Equity Project. Presented in partnership with Trust for Learning and Early Childhood Funders Collaborative . Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/gTFYZHPu

Educators who support and represent children’s home languages encourage connection and ultimately create a caring, equitable community of learners where everyone has a place. How have you honored home languages in your program? Let us know in the comments. You can read the entire article in the Summer 2024 issue of Teaching Young Children here: https://lnkd.in/ghMkSYVN

How can early childhood and youth development programs affirm positive cultural identities that build resiliency and honor cultural traditions? Let's explore this and other questions with Trust for Learning and Early Childhood Funders Collaborative on August 8 at "Toward Languages of Liberation in Learning Environments." Join us!

#NEWREPORT! The Children’s Equity Project and New America partnered together in this report to propose a new framework for #elementaryeducation that builds on, and is informed by, previous foundational efforts, centered on #children and the ways we know children learn, and disrupting well-documented, historically rooted, and contemporarily entrenched biases in learning systems. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gPfZp2YC

What would it take to support all children and youth to flourish in both their home or native language and English? What is lost for our democracy when children lose their family’s languages? How can early childhood and youth development programs affirm positive cultural identities that build resiliency and honor cultural traditions? Join Trust for Learning on August 8th for the webinar, Toward Languages of Liberation in Learning Environments. Dr. Shantel Meek connects the dots on how children's earliest experiences in their native, heritage and English languages shape their identities while shaping a truly multicultural vision of democracy’s future in the United States. Panelists will share insights from the practitioner’s lens about the critical importance of affirming positive cultural identities and incorporating home languages when working with children and youth. Thank you to our cohosts, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative and Grantmakers for Education

This report was a labor of love, 2 yrs in the making with Tunette Powell, PhD, Laura Bornfreund, the whole CEP team, CEP fam advisory committee, school leaders, and lots of CEP scholar partners across the US. This one was a journey for me, and it tracked with my own kid’s transition into elementary school last year. Kids don’t need to get “ready to learn”. Kids are BORN ready. They’re born curious, eager to explore and discover. Who asks more questions than a little kid? They start kindergarten ready to take on the world. But somewhere along the way the fire is dimmed by our systems. Often it happens during the elementary years. And kids from historically marginalized groups- Black, AI/AN, Latine, and other children of color, multilingual children, and children w disabilities- are disproportionately subject to systemic shortfalls and resulting negative experiences in school- and that’s not new. We can do so much better for our kids, collectively. Here, we propose 14 core ingredients (14 might be the CEP’s lucky number, IYKYK) for a quality elementary experience that prioritizes the joy in learning, a school environment that actually centers kids and the ways in which they learn, research backed instruction, and an elementary system that meaningfully attends to systemic biases that for too long have made schools the foundation of our unequal society, deepening opportunity and outcome gaps. The framework, like all our work, takes a historical lens. And it’s more than a vision, it’s actionable- it includes core, observable indicators and examples of school communities where these ingredients are being implemented, today. In the coming weeks, The Children's Equity Project and New America will kickoff a series digging deep on each of the 14 core ingredients. We’ll be hosting discussions on district, state, amd federal enablers. Stay tuned! Deeply appreciate funding from Trust for Learning and Heising-Simons Foundation foundation.

As always new resources from The Children's Equity Project and New America are equal parts inspiring and actionable. This one is so important - a vision for developmentally appropriate, equitable early learning environments that extend all the way through early childhood as it continues into #elementaryeducation. Take a look!