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Sep 25, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann
TCF fellow and Next100 senior policy entrepreneur Chantal Hinds submitted a comment to the Rockefeller Institute of Government on September 4, 2024, to inform the institute’s study of New York State’s Foundation Aid Formula.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Katie Byrnes |Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann |Conor Williams
In 2016, as a second-year PhD student, I attended a lecture by Katie Byrnes, who spoke of the importance of Mindful Educator Self-Care, and described tools for educators to practice, like focused attention, that will help them to be aware of one’s body and mental state. Years later—as a professor training teachers during the COVID-19 global pandemic—I incorporated yoga and breathing exercises into my lectures by inviting guest practitioners to lead us through guided practices.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Robert Shireman |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jasmine Brann |Jonathan Zabala
From Ohio’s College Credit Plus to Hawaii’s Running Start, dual enrollment (sometimes called dual credit) programs are spreading all over the nation. In these programs, eligible high school students can take certain college courses as part of their high school education. As Hawaii’s program name implies, dual enrollment is intended to give high school students a running start on gaining a college education. Dual-enrolled students are now a significant portion of college enrollment.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann |Stefan Lallinger
“Photography has nothing to do with cameras.”—Lucas GentryPhotography Without Borders started in 2009 when Tony Rocco, a lifelong Philadelphia resident and former John B. Stetson Middle School teacher, wanted to introduce some of his students to his passion for photography and allow them to explore and develop their love for photography in an afterschool setting.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Maggie Marcus |Jonathan Zabala |Jasmine Brann |Conor Williams
The U.S. student body is more diverse today than ever before—in essentially every respect. This extends to linguistic diversity; as we wrote in a report last year:More than 20 percent of U.S. kids , one in four children is a , and more than five million students are currently classified as English learners (ELs). American public education has always had a complicated relationship with the country’s multilingual heritage.
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May 15, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams
This year marks seventy years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case where a unanimous court overruled the doctrine of “separate but equal” and called for the end of legalized racial segregation in public schools. Since then, the country has undertaken, in fits and starts, Brown’s mandate to desegregate schools. While Brown ended legal segregation of schools, American schools are still highly unequal and separated by race and class.
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May 14, 2024 | 
edutopia.org | Jasmine Brann
It’s summertime, and it feels good—really good! Ten months of the alarm clock going off at 6 a.m., lunch prep, laundry, and rounding up all the troops for the daily trek off to school are over, at least for the next few weeks. There’s no shame in hitting the snooze button. It’s your time. You’ve worked hard, and you deserve the slower pace and some good ol’ R & R. Many folks view summer as paid time off for educators. However, summer is actually an essential recovery period for educators.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jasmine Brann |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Xigrid Soto-Boykin
In 2022, Promesa Boyle Heights became one of the U.S. Department of Education’s new Full Service Community School grantees—one of forty-two nationwide. The $2.5-million grant supports Promesa Boyle Heights and its implementation of the Community Schools Model in each of its five schools in Boyle Heights. This commentary will offer a snapshot of a week at Promesa Boyle Heights and its community school model.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jasmine Brann |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams
Multilingualism in the United States is at an all-time high. Due to recent immigration patterns, a fifth of the population (67.3 million people) speaks a non-English language at home. Immigrants make up more than half (56.7 percent) of the United States population that speaks a non-English language. Linguistic diversity is also at its highest, with over spoken in the United States.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
edutopia.org | Jasmine Brann
As a school principal, I’ve navigated my share of student disputes—from “she stole my applesauce” to football recess referee to mediating more serious and violent gang disputes as a high school administrator. When students have outbursts or retreat inward, they may have issues with other students, something happening at home, or even an internal conflict they’re trying to process. Supporting students when they’re in crisis, or especially rebellious, is difficult.
