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National School Redesign Showcase Coming on May 9, 2024

Now more than ever, it’s clear that our current educational system was not designed to provide pathways to life success for ALL of our young people. School redesign affords educators the opportunity to co-create a space where all want to be – adults and students alike – elevating the insights of teachers, students, and families […]

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Designing Education Season 3, Episode 1 Building Success Systems for Students with Learning Disabilities

Season three of Designing Education Podcast series, hosted by Robert Balfanz, will focus on exploring student success systems, the next generation of early warning, on-track, and multi-tiered system of supports, which aim to integrate and increase the impact of existing student support efforts. In the first episode of our third season, Dr. Saashya Rodrigo, Principal […]

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Tarsha Herelle

Tarsha I. Herelle, PhD, is an assistant research scientist with the Everyone Graduates Center at the Center for Social Organization of Schools in the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Her research explores school belonging and how institutional policies, pedagogical practices, and learning environments shape the experiences of students and educators across educational contexts. […]

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Zilu Jiang

Zilu Jiang, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies from The Ohio State University. Her research lies at the intersection of educational psychology and learning technologies. She is committed to developing translational research that connects educational theories […]

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Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be

In Season 2, Episode 8, Sofia Russo, Principal of High School for Media and Communications located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about what is possible when school leaders, teachers, students, families and community members are given opportunities to engage in school redesign. With just a little support […]

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Skills for Secondary School Success (4S)

Skills for Secondary School Success (4S) is a new research-based curriculum designed to prepare students for high school by boosting their competence, self-management, growth mindset, self-efficacy, sense of school belonging, and purpose. 4S is a 40-lesson course module, for 7th and/or 8th grade students in a non-core course of the school’s choosing. Participating schools will […]

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REPORT: Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs

Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs: Findings from the 2022-23 National Partnership for Student Success Principal Survey September 2023 By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes One of the most comprehensive post-pandemic representative surveys of public school principals on the provision of student supports shows that the nation’s schools and their partners are working […]

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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Final Report to Nation on Efforts to Improve High School Graduation Rates Shows Long-Term Gains Due to focused efforts, 5 million more students graduated, rather than dropping out, from 2001 through 2020. More than half a million more students received diplomas this year due to progress. Washington, D.C. – This year’s Building A Grad Nation […]

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U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action

We are excited to share that the U.S. Department of Education has published a Dear Colleague Letter calling upon Institutions of Higher Education to increase the number of their students involved in supporting local P-12 students and communities in an effort to further aid pandemic educational recovery.

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