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As they settle into their first year of adulthood, participants in America in One Room: The Youth Vote are reflecting on their powerful weekend of deliberation.    In our recent Data & Impact Webinars, we explored key survey findings and heard from students about how the experience shaped their views.    And remember, don’t miss our upcoming online deliberation sessions for high school, university, and middle school students: https://bit.ly/3Bs2ylT Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab The Generation Lab

Science confirms what common sense suggests: children's experiences in their first five years can profoundly shape their chances later in life. Throughout the election and the upcoming Congress/administration, our leaders will have the chance to invest in this understanding and uplift early learning by focusing on performance and results. This includes building a strong early educator workforce, promoting innovative early childhood investments in research, data, and systems to determine the most effective ways to meet our childrens’ needs, and more. Learn more about the critical policy opportunities to support young people in our 2024 Campaign Paper: https://lnkd.in/ewEBqkGF

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Check out this article I wrote!

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Yesterday, I went along with Jamie Toyne and Scott Colfer to UKEduCamp and my first proper unconference. It was ace. Here're a few musings, in case anyone's wondering what it's like and needs a bit of convincing to go to one:   Good things happen when people talk: I didn't know what to expect from the 'pitches': the ideas for sessions that are gathered at the start of the day. It turns out that they were all, for the most part, questions or topics for general discussion. Sometimes the person who made a pitch wanted help, sometimes they had an idea they wanted to test out, sometimes they had a thing they wanted to tell people about. Nobody came to the sessions acting like they had all the answers. One of the key impressions the day left on me was that those in the room who had the most experience contributed to, but didn't dominate the conversation. One guy, Jon Rhodes, was so chilled out and softly-spoken I had to lean forward to hear his points, and I'm glad I did, because he came out with some gems of practical advice. My concern ahead of a participant-led event was that a lot of one particular type of voice (people who like to hear themselves talk) would be heard. That's not what happened. There was hardly any pontificating (every HE event has to have some pontification and at least a bit of denunciation). I'd say that took a fair bit of self-restraint from some, and only a tiny bit of gentle conducting from facilitators to make sure lots of voices were heard. HE is brilliant: I've been at Herd coming on two months now (!), after working at the University of Cambridge for nine years. Being back in a UoC building with some old UoC friends, but representing Herd, led to a bit of dissonance. I thought people might be wary, or wonder why I was chipping in with thoughts when I wasn't 'from' a University. None of that happened. Alexander Blandford, one of the organisers, said this was probably because I still "smelled" like I was from HE. I took this as a compliment, but I'll switch washing powder, just to be safe. The sessions were 'safe spaces'. Pains were shared, confidentially, trustingly, effectively. Nobody had their guard up, and that allowed for multi-lateral discussion. There wasn't an air of experts helping novices: it was peer-to-peer support. I'm still struck by just how cool that is - genuine collaboration, and a real treasure of the sector.   (Nearly) everyone is as awks as you: There was even a session for people who hated networking, on how to deal with it. Some seasoned networkers joined in and pretty much just listened and let the self-confessed networking n00bs accidently network for an hour, chipping in with the occasional suggestion or thought that was quickly scribbled down.   I'll not hesitate to sign up to the next EduCamp. I met cool people, learned new things, and got insight into some of the challenges shared across the sector. If you work in HE, I'd strongly encourage you to sign up!   See you at the next one!

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The link for my discussion with Dr Tom Thorppe went AWOL. Here it is!

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In our latest Foundations LIVE webinar, Dr Rachel Russell, Senior Regional Advisor at Foundations, shares the main discussion points, insights and learning outcomes from the DFG Children Summit.