Motivating Middle-School 'Market Makers'
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Sarah Levitt, Vice President and Counsel at Deutsche Bank (and sister of our own Daniel Levitt, Program Manager), volunteered at East Flatbush Community Research School. There, she worked with community educators from University Settlement to support students as they started their custom-designed phone case company, I-See-You. Here’s what Sarah had to say about her experience as a Market Makers volunteer. Read full post
Let's Tackle the Summer Slide: Part 2! | LiteracyConnections
Thursday, July 6, 2017
The summer slide is well documented. Our own Katie Brohawn, Senior Director of Research, summarized this research in a post last August highlighting a study showing that students in low-income neighborhoods can lose two months of reading achievement over the course of a single summer. Luckily, we also know a wide range of strategies for keeping kids engaged in joyful literacy learning during the months off of school. Our LiteracyConnections blog series will share several of these strategies over the next several weeks. Read full post
Pathways to the Future
Friday, June 30, 2017
This week, ExpandED Schools celebrated its first cohort of Pathways graduates. Eighteen men of color took part in a year-long exploration of the education field, receiving not only a field placement in an ExpandED Schools program, but also intensive professional development and mentorship from our team—and from each other. Read full post
Want to bring quality SEL to more to kids? Start with staff. We did!
Thursday, June 29, 2017
ExpandED Schools recently had Paul Griffin, Founder and President of The Possibility Project, come and offer a social-emotional learning (SEL) training to our staff. His company brings together vastly diverse groups of teenagers who meet 6-7 hours weekly for nine months. They engage in an SEL experience focused on social justice that uses the performing arts to examine and address the personal and social forces that shape their lives and identities. Read full post
The ExpandED Schools Volunteer Program turns 1!
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Judging debate tournaments, building stage sets, writing letters to high schoolers, reading with elementary-aged kids, doing arts and crafts, coaching budding entrepreneurs, creating picture books and answering middle schoolers’ burning technological questions … as we celebrate the first anniversary of the ExpandED Schools Volunteer Program, let’s take a look back at all we accomplished in just one year! Read full post
Let's Tackle the Summer Slide! | LiteracyConnections
Thursday, June 22, 2017
The summer slide is well documented. Our own Katie Browhan, Senior Director of Research, summarized this research in a post last August highlighting a study showing that students in low-income neighborhoods can lose two months of reading achievement over the course of a single summer. Luckily, we also know a wide range of strategies for keeping kids engaged in joyful literacy learning during the months off of school. Our LiteracyConnections blog series will share several of these strategies over the next several weeks. Read full post
Honor an influential educator and make a difference in the life of a child.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
As we finish up another great year of expanded learning, we pause to reflect upon all of the educators who make a difference. And we invite you to think about the educators in your life who have inspired you or your child. Maybe it was a math teacher who inspired your career, a dance instructor who lit a spark inside you or a reading tutor who opened new worlds. Now you can honor them through a donation to ExpandED Schools and support our mission of closing the learning gap. Read full post
Deloitte volunteers return to double their impact
Monday, June 19, 2017
Recently, Deloitte member firms from around the country participated in their annual Impact Day, a national day of service and celebration of their year-round commitment to volunteerism. Here in New York City, one of our schools, PS 188/The Island School, hosted its second Impact Day for 25 enthusiastic young professional volunteers. In fact, several of the volunteers had so much fun last year that they signed up to be with us again this year! Read full post
Team Up for Literacy: Highlights from our year-end Intervisitation
Friday, June 16, 2017
ExpandED Schools recently hosted its final intervisitation of the school year at Renaissance School of the Arts (RSA) located in East Harlem. Among the many opportunities that are provided around capacity-building, trainings and professional development, intervisitations are uniquely designed to foster an environment where school leaders and CBO personnel can learn from one another, ask questions and observe best practices by visiting schools within our network. The theme of this visit focused on how schools and community partners work together to support literacy goals. Read full post
One in a Million: Dreaming of Books, Planes and College
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
We’re reaching our 1 millionth student this school year! This blog is part of a series where we journey throughout our expanded learning schools network and get to know some of our students. Meet Elian, a 6th grader in Harlem. He’s 1 in a million! Read full post
