National Education Summit’s Post

 I am excited to announce the publication of the South Dakota Grasslands Education Framework which will inform a coordinated and comprehensive approach to grasslands education for youth in South Dakota. The South Dakota Grasslands Education Framework was developed through a Conservation Collaborative Cooperative Agreement between the South Dakota USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service and the South Dakota Discovery Center. This effort convened education and technical experts to offer input on what high quality grasslands education should look like in South Dakota. The resulting Framework provides a common set of understandings which can be used to evaluate existing grasslands youth education resources and inform the development of new resources and initiatives. One of the deliverables of this project is to use the Framework to evaluate existing resources to identify gaps. Our review has shown that there is a need for grasslands curriculum that  - Includes the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings - Provides lessons and curriculum for K-2  - Integrates Career Exploration by mentioning or aligning to careers  - Can support student involvement in community action, service learning or citizen science opportunities. Our recommendation is that future grasslands education initiatives should prioritize addressing these gaps. You can view the Framework at https://lnkd.in/dgqw-3jH

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A short article on Building Resilience in Students. Resilience feels especially important in today's world, but really it has always been a trait with enduring significance. https://lnkd.in/d9hfd56f

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Here is impact evaluation reports for healthy school lunch programme showing significant health and social benefits

Given all of the chatter around the school lunch programme, we want to share the evidence again. Two school lunch programme evaluations are linked below. Both evaluations adopted mixed methods relevant to the different outcomes-of-interest (satiety, aspects of food quality, attendance, wellbeing, health and school functioning including concentration, overall health quality of life, etc), and these methods included quasi-experimental designs with counterfactuals (regression discontinuity design, propensity score matching, stepped wise design, difference in difference) alongside case studies and interviews. Yes, the school lunch programme did have an impact on many of these outcomes. Have a look - The net impact estimates and A3 summaries are provided within each of the final reports. Technical reports are also there for the particularly geeky. Please share the evidence to further inform the public narrative. Find the interim evaluation here: https://lnkd.in/geSAeddY The full evaluation reports here: https://lnkd.in/gBCF3ywV

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Early childhood education helps young children develop the foundational skills they need to succeed later in life. 📊 Our NEW REPORT maps the quality and progress of early childhood education systems across 15 Pacific Island Countries & Territories. Get the evidence ⬇️ https://uni.cf/4c1cOiN

I've been reading the recent report on Schools for Nature from the WWF this morning. Fascinating insight on the state of outdoor learning in schools across the UK, including findings that just 24% of schools provide daily opportunities to experience nature and that there is a "nature gap" between schools in better-off and more deprived areas. 56% of secondary schools do not offer any form of outdoor learning during a normal week. As the Children’s People and Nature Survey for England found in 2022, 87% of young people agreed that being in nature made them very happy, but that 27% feel low levels of connection to nature. National curricula are too narrow and do not afford opportunity and resource to create normalised cultures of taking students outside. Yes, some schools could do more, but without curriculum reform we are not going to see any meaningful change. WWF report:

📢 🙌 A shout out to Ben Worth, Richard Wanhill, and David Spencer for a massive effort on behalf of NZ Arb members, pulling together a submission on Government's Vocational Education Reforms. This involved multiple meetings, both internally and with affiliated sectors, and many hours of reading and dissecting the three options proposed for the best outcomes for arboriculture. Their submission gives a voice to our industry on this important matter. We are proud to have people like this in our industry, willing to do the mahi for a better future for all of us working in arboriculture. 📝 You can read NZ Arb’s submission here: https://loom.ly/euGx4rs 🎓 Next steps, after public consultation concludes, the Government aims to make final policy decisions on vocational education reforms by November 2024. Work is already underway to create financially sustainable Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) with Te Pūkenga’s support, with plans to grant greater autonomy to those on a sustainable path by 2025. The Government will review the structure of independent and federation ITPs, as well as the new industry training and standard-setting system, in the second half of 2025. Legislative changes to establish the new vocational education system and a new funding model will take effect from January 2026.