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07/23/18

GLR Week Full Agenda Philadelphia, PA July 23 – 27, 2018

MONDAY, JULY 23

11:00 AM

Location: Monticello Foyer

Registration Opens

4:00 – 5:30 PM

Location: The Stenton

Gallery Walk:

Exposition of important work by Read by 4th and other exemplary organizations,

programs and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia region.

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7:30 – 8:30 AM

Location: Monticello

Breakfast Table Talks: Continuing the Conversations

• New Communities to the GLR Network and First-Time Attendees

All funders who are from communities that joined the GLR Network in

the past year and/or first-time attendees to the Funder Huddle are

invited to join Ron Fairchild and the team from the GLR Support Center

for an informal orientation and networking opportunity over breakfast.

9:00 – 11:00 AM

I. Location: Mt. Vernon

II. Location: Stenton

Pre-Session(s):

I. “Catalyzing Innovation”

What does “innovation” truly mean? How can funders and civic leaders think

about innovation, and what tools, resources and lessons learned can be gleaned

from those who are leveraging it to guide their strategies? This session will

feature philanthropic leaders and winners of recent innovation challenges who

will discuss the strategies, approaches and processes they use to catalyze

innovation. Content will include an overview of the Gary Community

Investments/OpenIDEO Early Childhood Innovation Prize, the Barbara Bush

Literacy Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE, Promise Venture Studio's Early

Futures Venture and the Omidyar Network and DonorsChoose.org Early

Childhood Learning Innovation Challenge. Participants will engage in an

interactive design process led by OpenIDEO and leave armed with a host of co-

investment and replication ideas to deepen impact in their own communities and

states.

Moderator: Ashley Beckner (Omidyar Network)

Presenters: Steffanie Clothier (Gary Community Investments); Chris

Frangione (Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy); Matt Glickman

(Promise Venture Studios); Victoria Jones (National Head Start Association);

Robin Lamott-Sparks (Coalition for New Britain’s Youth); Dr. Jin Lee (Baby

Noggin, QIZDA); Matthew Ridenour (OpenIDEO); and Ben York

(ParentPowered)

II. “Innovative Financing for Success, Scale and Sustainability”

Leveraging the progress made since the launch of the GLR Campaign to ensure

success, scale and sustainability requires stable and growing financing. Many

innovative and exciting financing strategies are emerging, including those that

TUESDAY, JULY 24 Gallery Walk displayed


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9:00 – 11:00 AM leverage federal funds such as SIPRA as well as those that rely on private

investments for upfront capital and build a plan with significant outcome

benchmarks that provides the basis for repayment and public dollars to take

over. This pre-session is designed to map the landscape and assess the state of

play with respect to various tools for financing success, scale and sustainability.

It will lift up and unpack some of these valuable strategies and explore how

funders can leverage their leadership, influence and voice as well as their dollars

to ensure long-term capacity and funding.

Moderator: Andi Phillips (Maycomb Capital);

Presenters: Donna Cohen Ross (Center for the Study of Social Policy); Bill

Crim (United Way of Salt Lake); Rob Grunewald (Federal Reserve Bank of

Minneapolis); Ruth Ann Norton (Green & Healthy Homes Initiative [GGHI]);

Donna Cooper (Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY)); and Fraser

Nelson (Sorenson Impact)

11:30 – 1:30 PM

Location: Ballroom

Opening Plenary:

The official welcome to the 2018 Funder Huddle will begin with opening remarks

by Dr. Janet Haas of the William Penn Foundation, which will flow into a

discussion with leaders from Philadelphia’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading,

called “Read by 4th” focused on the pivotal role that funders play in the success

of their local initiative. We’ll also take the opportunity to recognize members of

the GLR Council of Champions — individuals recognized by the GLR

communities for their extraordinary contributions. The session will wrap up with a

warm welcome to the newest members of the GLR Community Network.

• Opening remarks by Dr. Janet Haas (M.D., Chair, The William Penn

Foundation)

• Special remarks by Tom Wolf (Governor of Pennsylvania)

• Special remarks by Jim Kenney (Mayor of Philadelphia)

• Remarks by Jenny Bogoni (Read by 4th); Donna Cooper (Public

Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY)); and Sharmain W. Matlock-

Turner (Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC))

• Special remarks by Ralph Smith (GLR)

• Recognition of GLR Champions by Ron Fairchild (GLR Support Center)

Moderator: Kristina L. Wahl (The Barra Foundation)

Panelists: Colleen Bowen (School District of Philadelphia, Clara Barton

Elementary); Michael DiBerardinis (City of Philadelphia); Rachel Honore

(People’s Emergency Center); and Malkia Singleton Ofori-Agyekum

(Parent-Child Home Program, Pennsylvania)

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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2:00 – 3:15 PM

Location: Grange

Location: Mt. Vernon

Concurrent Plenary Sessions:

• Preparing the Adults to Succeed: Talent Development in Early Care and

Learning

We expect that the issues raised and provoked by the NAEYC draft

report, Power to the Profession and the IOM: Transforming the

Workforce, will provide the centerpiece for conversations in this session.

The panel includes senior executives from a number of the foundations

that supported the Task Force that supported both reports.

Moderator: Felicia DeHaney (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)

Panelists: Ronnie Herndon (Albina Head Start); Jacqueline Jones

(Foundation for Child Development); Karen Ponder (NAEYC)

• TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health: Looking Ahead to

Community-wide Impact

Dr. Dana Suskind is Co-Director of TMW Center for Early Learning +

Public Health, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and the Director of

the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program at the University of Chicago. Her

research focuses on the role of parents and caregivers in foundational

brain development, with an overarching aim to narrow the achievement

gap and prevent early cognitive disparities at a population level.

Dr. Suskind will share the observations that led her to create the TMW

Center for Early Learning + Public Health. The Center develops

evidence-based interventions that enable parents, caregivers,

practitioners, and researchers to harness the power of language to

impact early cognitive disparities particularly among children born into

poverty. Dr. Suskind will discuss the science that drives her research,

share excerpts of TMW curricula and study results. Additionally, she and

TMW’s Chief Operations Officer (COO), Katie Dealy will highlight the

need for a public health approach to early learning as well as the TMW

Center’s upcoming community-wide rollout that will utilize existing social

and health infrastructures to disseminate our suite of interventions and

critical public health information within a single US city.

Dana Suskind (Thirty Million Words (TMW) Center for Early Learning

and Public Health); and Katie Dealy (Thirty Million Words (TMW) Center

for Early Learning and Public Health)

Respondents: Elena Rivera (The Children’s Institute); and Arianne

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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2:00 – 3:15 PM

Location: Bedford

I. Randolph House

II. Monticello

Weldon (Get Georgia Reading Campaign)

• The Science Bridge Between STEM and Literacy

In the science of early brain development, research shows important

connections between STEM and literacy and what it takes to grow these

foundational skills in young children. Foundation leaders will share how

they use this research to inform their grantmaking, what they have

learned and the related opportunities and challenges for community-

facing philanthropy.

Moderator: Marie O’Brien (The Learning Alliance)

Panelists: Kim Brenneman (Heising-Simons Foundation); Brian Carter

(Overdeck Family Foundation); Elizabeth Gunderson (Temple

University); and Hugh McStravick (PNC)

Salons:

• Moving the Needle: GLR in the Crucible of Practice

These sessions are designed to be deep-dive learning conversations

about the work in a handful of places that are engaged in the GLR

Campaign. Each community or state represented will be asked to share

two of their most significant successes and two of the most difficult

challenges they face in moving the needle and closing the gap.

Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in a

consultative conversation about how to make progress and reach bigger

outcomes.

I. Community-level perspective:

Moderator: Ayeola Fortune (United Way Worldwide)

Panelists: Elisabeth Buck (United Way of Central Iowa), Des Moines,

IA; Bess Day (United Way of Lane County), Lane County, OR; Jill

Pereira (United Way of Greater Lehigh Valley) Lehigh Valley, PA

II. State-wide lens:

Moderator: Adrianna Cuellar Rojas (United Way of Texas)

Panelists: Terri Clark (Read On Arizona), Arizona; Angela Duran

(Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading), Arkansas; Andrew

Ford (Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation), Arkansas; Karen Leland

(Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust); Sammy Moon (Mississippi

Association of Grantmakers); and Angela Rutherford (University of

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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2:00 – 3:15 PM

III. Location: Montpellier

Mississippi), Mississippi

III. Community-level perspective:

Moderator: Mike Kloche (University of the Pacific), California

Panelists: Dr. Rita Bishop (Roanoke City Public Schools); Sandra

Bernard-Bastien (Children’s Services Council of Broward County);

Katie Morris (The Belk Foundation); and Munro Richardson (Read

Charlotte)

3:15 PM

Location: Stenton

Break

3:45 – 5:00 PM

Location: Bedford

Location: Grange


• Excellent Instruction, Every Class, Every Day

For more than a decade, we have known that teaching reading is as

complex as rocket science. But few school districts have had a

systematic, sustained, and large-scale effort to help teachers provide

more effective early literacy instruction. This session will familiarize

funders with research on the essential content and process for effective

professional development for teachers of early literacy. In addition, two

school district leaders will share their stories of how they have brought

evidence-based teacher development and support to thousands of

teachers in their districts. Join in the conversation to learn about their

successes and challenges along the way, and how you can effectively

support your schools to make sure that there is high quality literacy

instruction in every class, every day.

Moderator: Elliot Weinbaum (The William Penn Foundation)

Panelists: Diane Castelbuono (School District of Philadelphia); Angela

Chapman (Office of Elementary Schools, District of Columbia Public

Schools); and Nell K. Duke (University of Michigan School of Education)

• Supporting Healthy Development: A Big Bet

Supporting parents through ongoing monitoring for developmental and

health concerns is critical for ensuring that children are ready for school

by age 5. Through a philanthropic collaborative, funders are joining with

experts from the pediatric and health services field to improve the

pediatric well-child visit by identifying the practices and systems

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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3:45 – 5:00 PM


IV. Randolph House

necessary to support parents in improving the health and social

emotional development of our youngest children.

Moderator: John Maddox (JF Maddox Foundation)

Panelists: Paul Dworkin (Help Me Grow National Center); Ira Hillman

(Einhorn Family Charitable Trust); and Dayna Long (UCSF Benioff

Children’s Hospital)

• Year of the Governor: Candidate Education and Engagement

One of the most significant factors affecting early childhood policy in

states is whether or not there is a supportive governor. This year there

will be 36 gubernatorial elections. If federal policies give states more

flexibility in the form of block grants, waivers, or vouchers, governors

and state legislators will have even more discretion over how to allocate,

maximize, or misuse those resources. Their decisions can support or

harm young children, and help or prevent families from becoming

independent, secure, and successful. Foundations can play an important

role supporting candidate education.

Moderator: Angel Taveras (Greenberg Traurig)

Lead discussants: Lisa Klein (Alliance for Early Success); Avo

Makdessian (Silicon Valley Community Foundation); and Jason Sabo

(Frontera Strategy)

Salons:

• Moving the Needle: GLR in the Crucible of Practice

These sessions are designed to be deep-dive learning conversations

about the work in a handful of places that are engaged in the GLR

Campaign. Each community or state represented will be asked to share

two of their most significant successes and two of the most difficult

challenges they face in moving the needle and closing the gap.

Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in a

consultative conversation about how to make progress and reach bigger

outcomes.

IV. Community-level perspective:

Moderator: Sally Fuller (Davis Foundation), Springfield, MA

Panelists: Beth Duda (The Patterson Foundation), Suncoast, FL; and

Mike English (Turn the Page KC), Kansas City, MO

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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3:45 – 5:00 PM

V. Monticello

VI. Montpelier

V. State-wide lens:

Moderator: Michelle Taylor (Delaware Campaign for GLR)

Panelists: Monica Fischer (Anonymous Donor); Andrew Hysell

(Kansas Reading Roadmap); Kari McCann-Boutell (Iowa Council of

Foundations); Suzanne Mineck (Mid-Iowa Health Foundation); Emily

Rubin (Marcus Autism Center); and Arianne Weldon (Get Georgia

Reading Campaign)

VI. Community-level perspective:

Panelists: Suzanne Harbin (Community Foundation of Northwest

Georgia) Whitfield County, GA; Brett Martin (United Way of Greater

Topeka) Shawnee County, KS; and Nancy Van Milligen (Community

Foundation of Greater Dubuque), Dubuque, IA

5:00 – 6:30 PM

Location: Stenton

Host Committee Welcome Reception for Funder Huddle 2018

Gallery Walk:

Exposition of important work by Read by 4th and other exemplary organizations,

programs and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia region

• Opening Remarks by Ralph Smith (GLR)

• Special Remarks by:

o Aldustus (AJ) Jordan (Wells Fargo)

o Hugh McStravick (PNC)

o Susan Segal (Lincoln Financial Group)

6:30 – 8:30 PM

Location: Ballroom

Film Screening of Broken Places, a documentary produced and directed by

Roger Weisberg (Public Policy Productions)

Followed by a conversation with the producer and director, Roger Weisberg

(Public Policy Productions) and Dr. Dayna Long (UCSF Benioff Children’s

Hospital)

Moderator: Joy Moore (JWS Media Consulting)

TUESDAY, JULY 24


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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 Communications Expo displayed (7:00 am – 7:15 pm)

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Location: Grange

Breakfast Table Talks:

• United Ways convene with Mary Sellers (United Way Worldwide)

All United Way staff are invited to join Mary Sellers, U.S. President,

United Way Worldwide for an informal conversation about the powerful

roles United Ways are playing in the GLR Campaign.

7:30 – 8:30 AM



• GLR State Leads convene to discuss partnerships with Mott State

Afterschool Networks

7:30 – 8:30 AM

Location: Stenton

Communications Expo Opens

7:30 – 8:30 AM



• Improving Early Learning Outcomes with PBS Stations in Your

Communities

Join Pam Johnson, Executive Director of Ready To Learn at the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and David Lowenstein, Senior

Director of Ready To Learn at PBS KIDS, for a conversation about a

growing number of PBS stations and their community collaboratives that

are engaging children, families and educators to improve early learning

outcomes through the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative. Learn about

the innovative, research-driven, literacy and science content and

engagement models that these stations and their partners

are successfully implementing in underserved neighborhoods across the

country. This effort features high-quality, hands-on learning resources

that include the PBS KIDS Family & Community Learning workshops,

Playful Learning for Educators workshops, near-peer mentoring

programs, and after-school and summer camps. Discuss opportunities to

make connections with these public media stations and maximize impact

in the communities you support.

Pam Johnson (Ready To Learn at CPB); and David


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Lowenstein (Ready To Learn at PBS)

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Location: refer to app for more

information

Movement Partners and Allies in GLR Communities (Briefings):

Executives of sector-leading organizations are invited to report on how their

perspectives, priorities and strategies are contributing to early school success in

GLR Communities.

Listing includes:

AARP Foundation Experience Corps; Bezos Family Foundation; Bright by Text;

Coaching Corps; The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA);

Family Connects; Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI); Home Instruction for

Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY); Institute for Educational Leadership

(IEL); JumpStart; National Center for Families Learning (NCFL); National Head

Start Association (NHSA); Nurse Family Partnership; Parents as Teachers;

Parent-Child Home Program; Ready4K; Service Year Alliance; Sesame Street;

The Topeka Housing Authority; and Too Small to Fail.

9:45 – 11:45 AM

Location: Ballroom

Networked Learning & Improvement Science

Community & State Leads will gather for an opening plenary session on

strengthening the GLR Network's capacity to build increasingly dense, dynamic

webs of interconnected learning communities focused on impact and

improvement.

Ron Fairchild (GLR Support Center); Ralph Smith (GLR); Nelson Gonzalez

(Declara); and Sharon Greenberg (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of

Teaching)

9:45 – 11:00 AM



• K–3 Policy: Early Literacy – Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?

Failure to read is both an education and economic problem. According to

Early Warning: Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters, nearly 90

percent of students who failed to earn a high school diploma were struggling

readers in third grade. In addition, high school dropouts make up 75 percent

of citizens receiving food stamps and 90 percent of Americans on welfare.

That is why K–3 reading policy is the most critical of all education reforms.

We must demand that every child who enters fourth grade is a competent

reader and therefore ready for future academic success. If not, then what is

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25

https://www.aarp.org/experience-corps/

https://www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org/

https://brightbytext.org/

https://coachingcorps.org/

http://www.clpha.org/

http://www.familyconnects.org/

http://www.greenandhealthyhomes.org/

https://www.hippyusa.org/

https://www.hippyusa.org/

http://iel.org/home

http://iel.org/home

https://www.jstart.org/

http://www.familieslearning.org/

https://www.nhsa.org/

https://www.nhsa.org/

https://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/

https://parentsasteachers.org/

http://www.parent-child.org/

https://ready4k.parentpowered.com/about.html

https://serviceyear.org/about/

https://www.sesamestreet.org/

https://www.tha.gov/

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9:45 – 11:00 AM

Location: Stenton

Location: Grange

the purpose of the first years of formal learning? In this session, you’ll get a

sneak peek of some states’ approaches to doubling down on early literacy to

improve reading outcomes for all students. You’ll also leave with resources

to help advocate for early literacy policy nationwide.

Moderator: Suzanne Immerman (CGLR)

Panelists: Cari Miller (The Foundation for Excellence in Education); Barbara

O’Brien (Denver Public Schools); Dr. Ryan Wise (Iowa Department of

Education); and Dr. Carey Wright (State Superintendent, Mississippi &

Board President, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO))

• Communications for Behavior Change

GLR Campaign funders and coalitions can leverage behavioral science to

impact child outcomes and ensure early school success through focused

outreach campaigns. It is first important to understand what behavior you are

trying to change and identify the elements of effective science-based

behavior change campaigns in today’s fragmented media market. How are

these broad communications strategies designed, evaluated and scaled?

What role do the big tech companies play, and how can their assets be

leveraged? Join this session to learn what differentiates a communications

campaign from a behavior change campaign, and what GLR communities

can learn and apply from successful public health campaigns.

Moderator: Sonja Giese (Innovation Edge)

Panelists: Sheetal Singh (The Early Learning Lab); Joe Smyser (Public

Good Projects) and Andrew Volmert* (Frameworks)

• The Role of Media in Supporting Parent Success

Media producers and broadcasters have a unique platform to reach and

engage parents in their child's early development. Leaders from four of the

country's largest media companies will discuss their approaches to engaging

and supporting parents, and reflect upon their lessons learned, strategies

going forward, and implications for local GLR funders.

Moderator: Angel Taveras (Greenberg Traurig)

Panelists: Daria Hirsch (NBC Universal); Stephen Keppel (Univision); Lesli

Rotenberg (PBS); and Steve Youngwood (Sesame Street)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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11:15 – 12:15 PM

Location: Grange



• Learning Analytics: Optimizing Individualized Learning with Adaptive Games

Join Sara DeWitt (VP of PBS KIDS Digital) and Jeremy Roberts (Sr. Director

of Learning Technologies, PBS KIDS Digital) for an engaging conversation

about learning analytics and personalized and adaptive games. Discover

how PBS KIDS is safely harnessing these new technologies to improve the

impact of educational media for children all across the country and to help

parents and teachers better support their children’s learning. Learn more

about how this work is supported by the U.S. Department of Education

Ready To Learn Grant Program and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Sara DeWitt (PBS KIDS Digital); and Jeremy Roberts (PBS KIDS Digital)

• Struggling Readers? Come explore big wins in ed-tech that address a rare

combination of early identification and teacher reading instruction.

If you’ve ever wondered how we can identify all children at risk for reading

challenges as early as pre-K/K and have teachers prepared to deliver

targeted reading instruction to address these challenges at scale, this

session is for you. Join renowned Boston Children’s Hospital Gaab Lab team

for a pre-market look at their gamified, early literacy milestone screener. The

neuroscience experts at Gaab Lab began with dyslexia in mind and then

integrated approaches that also have application for English language

learners and children growing up in underserved communities. Early

identification also calls for state of the art teacher prep as well as scalable

early literacy instruction training for pre-K teachers and general education

teachers. In this session, we’ve paired Boston Children’s Hospital with AIM

Institute for Learning and Research, a Philadelphia Read by 4th instructional

strategies partner. AIM’s instructional practice team is hard at work with tech

guru, Digital Wave, to launch an interactive, virtual teacher training platform

grounded in the science of reading. This platform has it all - synchronous

and asynchronous learning, live instruction data feedback loops,

personalized lessons and tips for later classroom application and more – all

that meet the rigorous teacher preparation standards set by the International

Dyslexia Association for teachers of reading.

Local Introducer: Susan A. Segal (Lincoln Financial Group)

Moderator: Michelle Knapik (Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation)

Panelists: Nancy Blair (AIM Institute for Learning & Research); Amy Earle

(AIM Institute for Learning & Research); Deborah Lynam (AIM Institute for

Learning & Research); Pat Roberts (AIM Institute for Learning & Research);

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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11:15 – 12:15 PM

Location: Stenton

Katie Segien (Boston Children’s Hospital); and Carla E. Small (Boston

Children’s Hospital

• Flint, Michigan’s New American Dream

Learn more about the dangers of lead in a community’s water, especially for

the health and well-being of low-income children and families and how the

water crisis impacted Flint, Mich. Local experts will discuss how the

community has found hope and began working together to rebuild their

American Dream in the aftermath of the crisis.

Moderator: Isaiah M. Oliver (Flint Community Foundation)

Lead discussants: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (Public Health Advocate and

Pediatrician; Flint, Michigan); and JaNel Jamerson (Flint & Genesee

Literacy Network)

12:15 – 12:30 PM

Location: Ballroom Foyer and

Stenton

Boxed lunches available for attendees to take into next session.

12:30 – 1:45 PM


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Funder-2-Funder Roundtable Conversations

Funder Organizations only

During lunchtime, continue the conversations that emerge during Funder Huddle

sessions in an intimate and informal setting with session leaders and colleagues.

This will be an opportunity to take a deeper dive into critical issue areas and

share promising strategies to address the issues, leading to new paths for

replication, partnership and co-investment between national, state and

community-facing funders.

Topics:

• Preparing the Adults to Succeed: Talent Development in Early Care and

Learning

• Excellent Instruction, Every Class, Every Day

• The Science Bridge Between STEM and Literacy

• Learning Differences

• Dual Language Learners

• Lessons Learned: Big Bet Funder Collaboration:

Through a philanthropic collaborative, funders are joining with experts from

the pediatric and health services field to improve the pediatric well-child visit

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12:30 – 1:45 PM


information

by identifying the practices and systems necessary to support parents in

improving the health and social emotional development of our youngest

children.

Following the Tuesday plenary, local funders will have the opportunity for a

deeper dive on how to extend the lessons learned from the Big Bet

collaborative on philanthropic partnerships. Katherine Kaufmann of

Bridgespan will provide an overview of the process and lessons learned.

Panelists from the plenary session on Tuesday will be available for

discussion.

12:30 – 1:30 PM

Location: Ballroom

I. GLR Communities Are Focusing on Impact & Improvement

Non-Funder Organizations

Hear from communities that are already using improvement science and a data-

driven approach to achieve results. Find out what they are learning and

accomplishing. Explore the implications of their work for other communities and

states in the GLR Network.

Moderator: Jeff Edmondson (Ballmer Group)

Panelists: Bill Crim (United Way of Salt Lake); Tafona Ervin (Graduate

Tacoma); and Deepti Panjabi (Read Charlotte)

1:45 – 2:45 PM

Location: Ballroom

II. National Partners Are Using Technology & Data Visualization

Non-Funder Organizations

Learn more about how national partners are using technology to drive impact and

improvement in their work. Kyle Zimmer from First Book will share how their

powerful social enterprise models leverage technology platforms to accelerate

impact in high-need communities and make evidence-based strategies more

actionable. Michael McAfee from PolicyLink will discuss the organization’s newly

released National Equity Atlas and how it can be used to drive policy change.

Finally, Mary Sellers from United Way Worldwide will talk about the

organization’s Global Results Framework and a recently launched partnership

with Salesforce.

Moderator: Ron Fairchild (GLR Support Center)

Panelists: Michael McAfee (PolicyLink); Mary Sellers (United Way Worldwide);

Kyle Zimmer (First Book)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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2:45 – 3:45 PM

Location: Ballroom

III. Road-Testing the GLR Learning for Impact & Improvement System

Over the past six months, with philanthropic support from the Chan Zuckerberg

Initiative and the Overdeck Family Foundation, the GLR Campaign has made

significant progress with the early development stages of the GLR Learning for

Impact & Improvement System. Join us as we officially begin the roll-out and

road-testing phase with more than 50 GLR communities. You’ll hear from early

adopters and have a chance to see firsthand the power and potential of the

system.

Moderator: Bob Saffold (GLR Support Center)

Presenters: Zak Zielezinski (Declara), Malai Amfahr (Ames, IA), Mike English

(Kansas City, MO), Marissa Blankinship (Roanoke, VA); and Alex Scott

(CGLR)

2:00 – 3:45 PM

Location: Stenton

Funder Town Hall

Philanthropic Partnerships: Relationships for Impact


This session provides a unique opportunity for local, regional, state and national

funders to come together in an engaging and collective discussion about the

importance of funder coalitions and philanthropic partnerships, the roles each

philanthropic partner plays in addressing issues related to early school success,

and how each side can leverage their influence, expertise, leadership and

funding to best serve low-income children and families. Sponsored by Exponent

Philanthropy, “Philanthropic Partnerships: Relationships for Impact” will deepen

participants’ understanding of what it means to truly partner, how to manage the

pitfalls, and what success looks like. Participants will leave with energy, ideas

and connections to better reach their target populations using philanthropy as a

lever.

Moderators: Debra Jacobs (President and CEO, The Patterson Foundation);

and Henry Berman (CEO, Exponent Philanthropy)

2:00 – 3:45 PM


Partners Consultative Conversation: GLR 2.0 - Outcomes to Impacts

CGLR Partner Organizations

As sector-leading organizations and essential allies in achieving early school

success, GLR Campaign partners leverage national and regional platforms and

the reach of affiliates to pilot and implement solutions and strategies. With

several partners joining us for GLR Week, we are taking the opportunity to

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convene a special consultative conversation where partners can exchange ideas

about what works to move the needle on key outcomes and what it takes to

achieve impact at scale. This will also be an opportunity for GLR leaders to share

plans for the next phase of the GLR Campaign, also known as “GLR 2.0.”

3:45 – 4:00 PM

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Break

4:00 – 5:15 PM

Location: Stenton

Location: Grange


• The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Acknowledging the Challenges,

Lifting up the Opportunities

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was passed with historic

bipartisan support and includes a high priority on school attendance as well

as more provisions for community and family engagement than any prior

version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. States’

development and implementation of their plans for compliance with the

ESSA present both opportunities and challenges for local communities in

their work to advance grade-level reading achievement. Join a discussion of

these opportunities and challenges and consider how your investments can

offer support.

Moderator: Dr. Lillian Lowery (Ed Trust);

Panelists: Danielle Ewen (Ed Counsel); Dr. Ryan Wise (Iowa Department

of Education); and Dr. Carey Wright (State Superintendent, Mississippi &

Board President, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO))

• Leveraging Medicaid for Impact

Philanthropic leaders who are seeking to advance child outcomes are well-

positioned to play a vital role in utilizing Medicaid to address the health

determinants of early school success. As the number of children eligible for

Medicaid continues to increase, so does the need to align efforts across

sectors to ensure all children are healthy and successful in school and in

life. This session will highlight how states and program providers are

leveraging Medicaid to address school readiness and early school success

and will highlight for funders how they can use their leadership, voice and

influence to impact progress in their own communities and states.

Moderator: Osula Rushing (Grantmakers In Health)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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4:00 – 5:15 PM

Location: Randolph House

Location: Montpelier


Presenters: Paul Dworkin (Help Me Grow National Center); Paul Meyer

(Wellpass); Elena Rivera (The Children’s Institute); and Chad Shearer

(United Hospital Fund)

• Technology + Relationships = Solutions to Absenteeism

Wondering how to leverage technology to scale up efforts to reduce chronic

absence? Concerned about the impact of technology on forging meaningful

relationships with students and their families? Attend this session, led by

Attendance Works, to find out about to reduce chronic absence by

combining technology with explicit attention to relationship building. Learn

about several excellent uses: 1) expanded and more timely communications

with families 2) greater access to needed capacity building and professional

development, 3) using data to allocate resources, analyze causes of

absence and identify needed partnerships. Explore the role that you can

play in ensuring technology is used effectively.

Moderator: Hedy Chang (Attendance Works)

Panelists: Angela Duran (Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading);

Cecelia Leong (Attendance Works); and Ken Smythe-Leistico (RISE

Educational Consulting)

• Technology and Summer Learning

Well-deployed technology can help close the summer learning gap through

digital connections that help parents tap into affordable and motivating

opportunities for their children to engage in reading and learning, offline and

on. Join this discussion to explore possibilities for anytime, anywhere

summer learning using technology as a resource to engage parents and

children in fun yet impactful activities that build literacy and developmental

skills.

Moderator: Matthew Boulay (National Summer Learning Association);

Panelists: Alejandro Gac-Artigas (Springboard Collaborative); Rod Hsiao

(InPlay); Alison Marczuk (Kids Read Now); and Malbert Smith III

(MetaMetrics)

• “The Science Matters”

Hosted by the Bezos Family Foundation, this concurrent plenary will feature

Dr. John Gabrieli, renowned child-development researcher from MIT. Dr.

Gabrieli will discuss his latest scientific findings on early childhood brain

development and the importance of back-and-forth exchanges between

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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4:00 – 5:15 PM


Location: Bedford

children and adults. Dr. Gabrieli’s presentation will be followed by

reflections and reactions from three representatives of communities of

color—from Milwaukee and from Dallas—who have introduced brain

science to their communities. This session will dive deeper into the research

and highlight how the science is reaching parents, strengthening their skills

and competencies, and ultimately empowering parents in their daily lives.

Moderator: Marissa Kaiser (The Bezos Family Foundation)

Presenter: Dr. John Gabrieli (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT)

Respondents: Synovia Moss (former, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum);

Adriana Paniagua (AVANCE – Parent); and Anne Thomas (AVANCE –

Dallas)

• Proposed Federal Pilot Aimed to Advance State Leadership in Early

Childhood

As states and communities join forces to ensure more low-income children

receive the benefits of high quality early care and education, one of the big

hurdles is harmonizing fragmented funding streams. Dr. Katherine Stevens

of the American Enterprise Institute has put forward an innovative proposal

to give states greater flexibility to align funding across federal programs

serving young low-income children and their families. Come join Dr.

Stevens to hear more about this proposal along with an expert panel

discussing the prospective merits and drawbacks.

Moderator: Amy O’Leary (Early Education for All Campaign at Strategies

for Children)

Presenter: Katharine Stevens (American Enterprise Institute)

Commentators: Kathy Glazer (Virginia Early Childhood Foundation); and

Scott Groginsky (National Head Start Association)

• Childhood 2050: Exploring Creative Futures for Young Children and

Families

Diligent and creative leaders around the world are working to ensure that

young children and their families can thrive in the future. However, those

efforts rarely include a thorough exploration of what the future might be like.

That is a missed opportunity and a mistake. The landscape is shifting: work

is changing rapidly, trust in institutions is weakening, social connections are

becoming increasingly technologically mediated, and the country’s

demographics are shifting. These changes alone offer ample evidence that

the future will be unlike the past, yet few social sector organizations are

grappling with the implications of those changes or preparing for their

communities’ future realities and emerging needs.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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4:00 – 5:15 PM Taking a deliberate look at changes on the horizon – and at what

opportunities and challenges they might present – opens new prospects for

innovation and avenues for action that are only apparent through a future-

facing lens. This approach, known as strategic foresight, also empowers

leaders to shape the future that young children will inherit and to resist the

notion that the future is out of their control.

This session will explore the major future-facing questions funders need to

be asking, particularly as they pursue engagement with the public policy

process, and the habits funders can cultivate to think more strategically and

thoughtfully about the future.

Joe Waters (Capita); and Grady Powell (Openfields)

5:15 – 6:15 PM


Terrace

Partnership Reception (Funder Huddle 2018, Community & State Leads

Convening, and The Institutes)

• Remarks by Rhonda Lauer (Foundations, Inc.), Chris Frangione

(Barbara Bush Foundation), Catherine Maddox (JF Maddox

Foundation); and Mary Sellers (United Way Worldwide)

• Recognition of Bright Spots and 2017 Pacesetters Honors by Ron

Fairchild (Campaign for Grade-Level Reading)

7:30 PM

Location:

The Free Library (off-site)

Author Event and Book Signing at The Free Library of Philadelphia

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an

American City by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (Public Health Advocate and

Pediatrician; Flint, Michigan).

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25


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THURSDAY, JULY 26

7:30 AM

Location: Monticello Foyer

Registration

7:30 – 8:30 AM


Stenton

Continental Breakfast

7:00 AM


Stenton

Breakfast available

7:30 – 8:30 AM


Breakfast Caucuses:

• Communications Expo

8:45 – 10:00 AM

Location: Ballroom

Funder Huddle Closing Plenary / The Institutes Plenary Session Keynote:

• Welcome Remarks by Siobhan Reardon (The Free Library)

• Institutes Opening Remarks by Rhonda Lauer (Foundations, Inc.)

• Greetings by Otis Hackney (Mayor’s Office of Education, City of

Philadelphia)

• Keynote Remarks by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris (Center for Youth

Wellness): “Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”

• Funder Huddle Closing Remarks by Ralph Smith (CGLR)

Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris is a leader in the movement to transform how we respond

to early childhood adversity and the resulting toxic stress that dramatically impacts

health and longevity. Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Youth

Wellness, Dr. Burke-Harris’s work has been utilized by Mayo Clinic, American

Academy of Pediatrics, Google Zeitgeist, and Dreamforce. Her TED Talk “How

Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime” has been viewed more than

three million times. She is the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term

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10:00 AM

Location: Grange

Book Signing

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris (Center for Youth Wellness).

10:30 – 11:45 AM


Location: Bedford


• Supporting Parents and Children in the Face of Adversity: Philanthropy

Responds

Following the keynote remarks from Dr. Burke Harris, four philanthropic

leaders will reflect on the effects of childhood adversity and discuss the

strategies and approaches they use to support parents in the face of trauma

and stress. The session will include an overview of Genentech’s “The

Resilience Effect” initiative and the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation’s involvement

with ACEs 360 Iowa, and discussion of other philanthropic initiatives that

respond to what parents need to persevere in the face of adversity.

Moderator: Dr. Dayna Long (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital)

Panelists: Rajni Dronamraju (Genentech); Ira Hillman (Einhorn); Suzanne

Mineck (Mid-Iowa Health Foundation); and Wally Patawaran (JPB)

• Supporting Caregivers in the Face of Adversity: Public Housing Responds

This workshop will highlight ways that Public Housing Authority (PHA) leaders

are integrating trauma-informed practice into their work with residents —

through direct service, staff professional development and as part of local,

regional and statewide policy priorities. It will also highlight research and case

studies by the Urban Institute around community-level trauma and best

practices for integrating trauma-informed resident engagement into programs

and services. Participants will have an opportunity to consider and discuss

how a trauma-informed care lens impacts how they work with both adults and

children and the shifts in policies, relationships and practices that could

emerge from this approach.

Moderator: Abra Lyons-Warren (The Council of Large Public Housing

Agencies)

Panelists: Stefanie Q. Bass (Fairfax County Department of Housing and

Community Development); Kitty Miller (Home Forward); and Elsa

Falkenburger (Urban Institute)

THURSDAY, JULY 26


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10:30 – 11:45 AM


Location: Stenton

• Reducing Chronic Absence Requires a Trauma Informed Response

This session would examine the connection between trauma and chronic

absence. It will explore how chronic absence can reflect exposure to trauma

and how a trauma informed versus punitive response to poor attendance is

essential to improving outcomes especially for vulnerable students. Drawing

upon successes in communities, like Cleveland, Hedy Chang of Attendance

Works and David Osher of the American Institute for Research (AIR) will

share how a high level of chronic absence is a warning sign that schools and

community partners must address an absence of key social and emotional

conditions for learning even as they seek to convey the importance of showing

up to school every day.

Hedy Chang (Attendance Works); and David Osher (American Institute for

Research (AIR) )

• Mitigating Policy-Induced Trauma: Supporting Parents and Caregivers amidst

Current U.S. Immigration Policies & Practices

A quarter of all children in the United States have at least one foreign-born

parent. Although the majority of these children are U.S. Citizens, one tragic

result of the ongoing turmoil around immigration policy is the considerable

trauma being experienced by the adults as well as their children. This has

serious implications for the overall health and well-being of these children in

general and for early learning especially. This session will explore the

challenge with a special focus on how communities across the nation are

responding to support these families to mitigate the impact on their children.

Moderator: Samantha Artiga (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Panelists: Jeanette Betancourt (Sesame Street); Aracely Navarro (The

Children’s Partnership); and Rebecca Ullrich (Center for Law and Social

Policy)

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Location: Stenton

Lunch and Leading-Edge Conversations

Partial listing includes:

• Adult Literacy XPRIZE

The Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE, presented by Dollar

General Literacy Foundation, is a global competition challenging teams to

develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the

greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners in just 12

months. Join this opportunity to learn more about this competition supporting

THURSDAY, JULY 26


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12:00 – 1:15 PM


Location: Bedford

adult literacy and creating solutions that will overcome key barriers to literacy

by improving access, while increasing retention, and scaling to meet demand.

Christopher Frangione (Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy); and

Shlomy Kattan (XPRIZE)

• United2Read: Using Technology to create a More Coherent, Community-Wide

System of Support for Literacy

The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded United2Read a $14.65

million Education Innovation & Research Expansion grant to improve literacy

skills and close the achievement gap. Find out how United Ways, Community

Foundations and school districts can leverage this investment in technology

and professional support to strengthen the results of their local GLR

campaigns.

Panelists: June Blanc (United Way of Westchester and Putnam); Jay

Connor (Learning Ovations); Amanda Jacobs (Learning Ovations); and Jeff

Smink (Smarter Learning Group)

• Tools & Approaches for Data-Driven Impact & Improvement

Closing achievement gaps and moving the needle on reading proficiency

requires effective methods for identifying, collecting, assessing and

aggregating outcomes data. Join this session to learn from assessment

experts about tools that are readily available to enable the use of data to drive

impact and improvement. Explore strategies for tracking the performance of

programs, aggregating population data and demonstrating that early literacy

programs are “proven effective” and “evidence based.”

Kelly Kulsrud (Lectio); and Heloisa Villa (Clear Impact Scorecard)

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12:00 – 1:15 PM

Location: Grange

Funder-2-Funder Roundtable Conversation


During lunchtime, continue the conversations that emerge during Funder Huddle

sessions in an intimate and informal setting with session leaders and colleagues.

This will be an opportunity to take a deeper dive into critical issue areas and share

promising strategies to address the issues, leading to new paths for replication,

partnership and co-investment between national, state and community-facing

funders.

Topic:

• Trauma-informed Practice.

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Location: Ballroom

GLR Week Institutes Lunch

Welcome Remarks by Bill Golderer (United Way of Greater Philadelphia and

Southern New Jersey)

Conversation with Dr. Dayna Long (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital)

1:45 – 3:00 PM

Location: Ballroom

Community & State Leads Convening:

Bigger/Better Outcomes BINGO with the 2017 Pacesetters and Bright Spots

Join your colleagues for a fun, interactive networking session focused on

exemplary work that’s happening across the GLR Network at the points of

intersection on the BINGO matrix. We’ll have 18 tables filled with people ready to

talk about how to get bigger and better outcomes on school readiness, school

attendance and summer learning. Come prepared to “work the room” and fill your

BINGO card with strategies, practices and programs that you can take back and

use in your community and state.

• School Readiness

• School Attendance

• Summer Learning

Facilitator: Jenny Atkinson (GLR Support Center)

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1:45 – 3:00 PM


Location: Graff House

Location: Grange

Interactive Breakouts

• Family Communication through Compliments: A Proactive Approach to

Building Relationships and Engaging with Families

Effective and frequent communication between educators and families is key

to building trusting, academic partnerships and supporting student learning.

The formal and informal sharing of compliments and positive messages could

be used to share information about children in ways that are motivating and

meaningful to families. This foundational approach of sharing positive

messages sets a positive tone where children and families know that

children’s strengths are recognized.

Keo Chea-Young (Springboard Collaborative); and Rachel DiGregorio

(School District of Philadelphia)

• WOOP: Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan

Developed by Professor Gabriele Oettingen at New York University, WOOP

has more than 20 years of testing in classrooms, gyms and health care

settings. In schools, it significantly improves effort, homework completion,

attendance and GPA. Outside of schools, it has been shown to reduce stress,

increase engagement, improve time management and promote physical

fitness. In character development terms, WOOP builds self-control. It’s a

practical, accessible, evidence-based activity that helps students find and fulfill

their goals.

Meg Foran (Character Lab)

• The Power of Restorative Practice

Restoration is fundamental in lasting positive change. A truly trauma-informed

practice, the approach offers a way to interact with children exhibiting harmful

behavior as a result of a traumatic or stressful experience. The fundamental

premise of restorative practices is that people are happier, more cooperative

and productive, and more likely to make positive change when those in

positions of authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them.

Learn harm-reducing strategies and positive, restorative and reinforcing

interventions.

Bill Michener (Lincoln Lighthouse)

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1:45 – 3:00 PM




Location: Bedford

• Growing GRIT – Guts, Resilience, Insistence and Tenacity

Learn how to help students gain the confidence to solve problems, identify

their own feelings and gain a sense of control over their thoughts and

behaviors in and outside of the classroom. Participants will be equipped with

practical methods to build and foster a sense of curiosity in the children they

work with and specific strategies to facilitate the development of important

competencies like communication, community-building and conflict resolution.

Chelsea and Mike Ashcraft (Children’s Choice Child Care Services)

• The Use of Children’s Literature in the Healing of Trauma

How might we utilize children’s literature to address and/or heal a child’s

trauma? Learn how to identify and work with trauma in the classroom so that

you can reclaim the space to teach. Participants will be provided literacy-

based strategies, examples and a book list for PK–6 children that support

regulation of behaviors, effective relationship building and improved learning

experiences.

Colleen Lelli (Cabrini University)

• Creating Holistic Partnerships Between School and Afterschool

What does a strong partnership look like between a school and a community

partner? How can you build or strengthen a partnership? This interactive

session will address these questions with examples, tools and strategies for

holistic relationship building. Effective partnerships between schools,

afterschool programs and the community can directly influence a child’s ability

to learn year-round and improve a child’s attendance in school. Walk away

with new ideas on how to leverage impactful partnerships in order to move the

literacy needle.

Kenneth Anthony (Connecticut Afterschool Network)

• Trauma 101

Research shows that 67% of the population has experienced at least one

Adverse Childhood Experience. These trauma-based adversities are

predictive of a multitude of toxic physical, mental and social outcomes

throughout a person’s lifetime. As a society and as individuals, we need to be

better informed and prepared to prevent and address the traumatic impact of

childhood adversities. In this multi-media, interactive workshop participants

work together to build a powerful image that helps them appreciate the

complex nature of trauma and its aftermath.

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1:45 – 3:00 PM Diane Wagenhals (Lakeside Global Institute); and Michelle Machado

(Lakeside Global Institute)

3:00 – 3:15 PM

Location: Ballroom

Networking Break

3:15 – 4:15 PM

Location: Ballroom

Using Data & Learning Science to Drive Improvement & Impact

The Community & State Leads Convening will conclude with a call-to-action to

identify and to build the capacity of local data and learning partners who can take

full advantage of the new GLR Learning for Impact & Improvement System. You’ll

hear from two of the GLR Campaign’s lead investors in this work and have a

chance to weigh in on the GLR Support Center’s vision for the next 18 months of

work to strengthen the GLR Network.

Ron Fairchild (GLR Support Center); Anu Malipatil (Overdeck Family

Foundation); and Katrina Stevens (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)

3:15 – 4:30 PM


Location: Graff House

Location: Grange



Interactive Breakouts

• Family Communication through Compliments: A Proactive Approach to

Building Relationships and Engaging with Families

Keo Chea-Young (Springboard Collaborative); and Rachel DiGregorio

(School District of Philadelphia)

• WOOP: Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan

Meg Foran (Character Lab)

• Restorative Practices


• Growing GRIT – Guts, Resilience, Insistence and Tenacity

Chelsea and Mike Ashcraft (Children’s Choice Child Care Services)

• Using Children’s Literature to Help Children of Trauma Heal

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Location: Bedford

Location: Stenton


• Creating Holistic Partnerships Between School and Afterschool

Kenneth Anthony (Connecticut Afterschool Network)

• NeuroLogic Initiatives

Knowing your students are impacted by trauma is only the first step. Once

aware, it is more important to know what to do about it. This session will

cover interventions such as brain breaks, fidgets, furniture, student curriculum

and service dogs. We will share how we transformed four schools to meet the

needs of struggling students. Whether you are an academic, clinical, or

administrative staff, you will leave with tangible interventions you can

implement immediately.

Joshua MacNeill (Lakeside Global Institute)

• NFL Character Playbook: Digital Lessons for Middle Schoolers

The NFL and United Way have teamed up to give thousands of middle school

students the tools to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships. The

Character Playbook is an innovative digital course that uses evidence-based

strategies to educate students on how to cultivate and maintain healthy

relationships during their critical middle school years. Locally, the United Way

of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey has teamed up with the

Eagles to offer Character Playbook in area middle schools. The course is

comprised of six interactive online lessons that cover key concepts around

positive character development, social-emotional learning (SEL) and building

healthy relationships. Character Playbook allows students to engage with true-

to-life scenarios that include bystander intervention strategies and positive

relationship examples. Participants will review the resource, discuss program

impact and implementation strategies, and receive access to the online

program, supplemental offline lesson plans, assessments and ongoing

technical and curriculum support.

Jamie Grivas (EverFi); and Jennifer Nakamura (EverFi)

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4:45 – 5:45 PM

Location: Ballroom and

Ballroom Foyer

The Next Level Reception

After a full day of exciting programming, the Next Level Reception offers an

opportunity to mingle and network with fellow GLR Week attendees. This reception

takes place immediately after the conclusion of the day’s final sessions, in the

Ballroom at the Logan.

6:00 – 7:00 PM

Location: Off-site (See app for

more information)

Happy Hour Meetups

Happy hour grants a chance for more casual socializing. A list of suggested

venues will be provided as you make plans to meet up with your new

acquaintances. Stay close to the Logan or venture out and explore Philadelphia!

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FRIDAY, JULY 27

7:45 – 8:30 AM

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Location: Ballroom

Plenary Session Panel

Relationships Matter

In this session, leaders from three prominent youth development and mentoring

organizations, Coaching Corps, Jumpstart, and Mentor, will discuss the need for

more caring adult volunteers to serve as role models and mentors. Adults in these

roles have the opportunity to help children, who are facing adversity and trauma,

navigate challenges, celebrate accomplishments and make healthy decisions.

Moderator: Alexis Steines (Afterschool Alliance)

Panelists: Naila Bolus (Jumpstart); Janet Carter (Coaching Corps); Charles

English (Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas); and David Shapiro (Mentor)

Blending High-Tech and High-Touch: Engaging Parents to Support Preschoolers'

Social and Emotional Learning

The Ounce of Prevention and PBS KIDS have partnered to create Launching

Learners, an initiative to support and engage parents in the social-emotional

development of young children. The approach integrates multiple channels —

digital and school-based — to provide both a digital on-demand and a rich,

relationship-based experience for families, as well as extensive supports for

educators and family support professionals. Join Tony Raden, SVP of Research

and Policy Initiatives at Ounce of Prevention, and Sara DeWitt, VP of PBS KIDS

Digital, for insights into a first-of-its-kind initiative that blends resource-rich text

messages and digital games with the high-touch elements of in-person meetings

between school staff and parents.

Sara DeWitt (PBS Kids Digital); and Tony Raden (The Ounce of Prevention)

9:45 – 10:45 AM

Roundtable Conversation(s)

In light of what has been discussed during GLR Week, what specific strategies can

educators, caregivers and youth service workers immediately implement in their

respective work sites to better serve children and families? Led by local and

national thought leaders, participants of the Roundtable Conversations will explore

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9:45 – 10:45 AM



Location: Grange



1. Character development and how to intentionally teach and reinforce positive

values and mindsets

2. The understanding and the implementation of trauma-informed practice and

how it can dramatically effect positive change in and outside of the

classroom

3. Improving instruction with emergent best practices

4. Tools and strategies to immediately implement in youth service capacities

5. Supporting families and communities with effective relationship building

6. Better outcomes for students via innovative literacy programming

These topics will be examined through one of the five important perspectives:

character development, trauma-informed practice, the community, afterschool and

connecting with the school day.

Close-up on Character Development


Brave Conversations: Trauma-Informed Practice


Creating Trauma-Informed Communities

Robin Lamott Sparks (Coalition for New Britain’s Youth); Suzanne

O’Connor (United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New

Jersey)

Lessons Learned from Afterschool

Alexis Steines (Afterschool Alliance); Kelly Woodland (Afterschool

Allstars)

Connecting with the School Day

Kenneth Anthony (Connecticut Afterschool Network); Allyson Zalewski

(Foundations, Inc.)

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Ballroom

General Session

Keynote: Closing Remarks

A key component in providing sensitive, trauma-informed programming for

students is empowering educators with the confidence and information to develop

and improve their practice. Because of the residual effects that a child who has

experienced trauma can bring to educators or adults in close proximity, an adult

who practices self-compassion and care will be better able to provide safe and

dependable responses to a child in need.

Erika Petrelli (Leadership Development and The Leadership Program)

FRIDAY, JULY 27

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