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Postsecondary educational programming in prison continues to grow. With this growth comes a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape how we evaluate rehabilitative programming and, more importantly, its impacts on the people enrolled in the same. Learn more about effective ways to evaluate higher education in prison in the latest piece from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy 11 Trends in Philanthropy series.

More Birmingham City Schools students are receiving perfect attendance, which means our Every Day Counts initiative is working! We recently held our third drawing, following the initiative’s launch in January, to select ten #PublicHousing households as the winners of $300 each toward their rent as a reward for all school-aged children in the household receiving perfect attendance. Between the month of February and March, we saw a 22% increase in the number of eligible households. Last year, we found that the BCS schools our Public Housing communities are zoned for had high rates of absenteeism amongst students. What we did in an effort to address the challenge of truancy is create Every Day Counts. The initiative, in partnership with City of Birmingham Mayor's Office and BCS, incentivizes households to ensure all school-aged children are in school every day and provides wraparound support services, like Homework Help and Literacy Programming, so that the entire household is supported both in and out of the classroom. #Birmingham #Education #Community #Partnership #Goodnews

Great that the DfE is looking at this, but how can it become real, impactful and not just a set of well-placed words? We know that it is the subtle messaging, the body language given to parents, and the encouragement parents are given to go elsewhere. These are often difficult to prove, evidence and call out. A big shout out for Luton schools here however. We have just short of a third of our mainstream schools with additional resourced provisions. We have classes for children with complex needs in our mainstream schools and some of the most inclusive and passionately inclusive provision we could expect to see. However, there is more to do as we work with our schools to set a Luton Inclusion benchmark and framework of universally inclusive provision we agree we want all schools to offer. Link this with openly transparent data, access to resources, and capacity to ensure inclusion, alongside an annual publicly available monitoring scorecard which includes student satisfaction with the way the school offers and promotes inclusion for all, and you set the expectation alongside accountability. #Luton2040Vision

🔊ANNOUNCEMENT🔊: Today we're launching a new phase of our It’s Child’s Play campaign which gives parents the resources needed to engage more with their children and help them get school ready. Research shows that some disadvantaged children start school developmentally on average 4-5 months behind others and leave school just over 18 months behind. This can have knock-on effects as to how well they do in their first years at school and is often related to how well they do in their GSCEs and beyond. Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZafv3mk #socialmobility #earlyyears #reading

"Community schools are more than a place – they bring parents, community partners, and schools together, organizing schools around the student and their success." ESL Federal Credit Union's 3-part Community Schools Video Series shares the success of Community Schools and their impact on students, families, and the community. Watch here - https://lnkd.in/gmeTvU-4

Counting down to our 10th anniversary of #teacherpowered in a few weeks by sharing all things we support & do. One impactful #teacherpowered schools practice is involving families. Check out this Edweek article for one way to do it: https://lnkd.in/gJ6kx3s6?

💫Try to fight foundation and Unbounded Future are proud to announce a collaborative effort aimed at empowering underprivileged children through education. Through this partnership, we are excited to launch a program focused on distributing education kits to communities in need, providing essential resources to support learning and development.🎉 ➡️At TTF and Unbounded Future, we share a common commitment to creating opportunities for children to thrive and succeed. Through this joint initiative, we aim to break down barriers to education and ensure that every child has access to the tools and resources they need to reach their full potential. ➡️Program Details: The program will involve the distribution of education kits to schools, orphanages, and community centers in underserved areas. Each kit will contain a range of educational materials, including stationery, books, art supplies, hygiene items, and educational toys, tailored to the needs of different age groups. ➡️Collaborative Efforts: TTF and Unbounded Future have pooled their resources and expertise to make this program possible. Together, we have coordinated efforts to procure and assemble the education kits, leveraging our networks and partnerships to maximize impact and reach as many children as possible. ➡️Community Engagement: In addition to distributing education kits, the program will also include community engagement activities such as interactive workshops, storytelling sessions, and educational games. These activities will not only enhance the learning experience but also foster a sense of belonging and community spirit. #education #development #leadership #community #child #besiceducation Unbounded Futures

This week, I'll be highlighting some points from the presidential report at the National Federation of the Blind 2024 convention. Today, let's talk about equal access to education. "We got involved in the IEPs for a ten-year-old who could only write the alphabet in uncontracted Braille and a nine-year-old who could only write half of the alphabet. Neither of them could read. Neither of these young girls, both curious and eager to learn, had any access technology or access technology instruction. Neither of them was receiving substantive mobility services, thus denying them age-appropriate independence. In school, they relied exclusively on paraprofessionals to serve as readers and guides. With the intervention of the Federation, both girls’ IEPs were rewritten to include integration of blindness skills training into the general curriculum; age-appropriate Braille, mobility and technology goals; reduced reliance on paraprofessionals; and daily reinforcement of all instruction." Do not rush to accuse southern states of abandoning blind people. Though this took place in Alabama, it happens every day in every state. People with disabilities and their parents have to fight for their right to be educated, which requires them to have the knowledge and skills necessary to do so. And the school systems do not make it easy. #Blind #NFB #IEP #DisabilityRights #education

Government reforms my backside, having introduced a deadline for their "2018 Accessibility Regulations", 20th September 2020 surprise, surprise 30% of children still effectively being excluded from participating in learning and leaving education as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived !? So, begs the question whether part of the agenda for sustaining the Hourglass Economy of Haves and Have-nots ensuring their, so called, Human Resources continue to be dumbed-down in transition to Digital Industrial Revolution? #PublicHealth #DigitalEyeHealth #OccupationalHealth #Visionloss #MyopiaManagement #AsthenopiaControl #AccessibilityMatters #OmittingDigitalVisionTherapy

💫Try to fight foundation and Unbounded Future are proud to announce a collaborative effort aimed at empowering underprivileged children through education. Through this partnership, we are excited to launch a program focused on distributing education kits to communities in need, providing essential resources to support learning and development.🎉 ➡️At TTF and Unbounded Future, we share a common commitment to creating opportunities for children to thrive and succeed. Through this joint initiative, we aim to break down barriers to education and ensure that every child has access to the tools and resources they need to reach their full potential. ➡️Program Details: The program will involve the distribution of education kits to schools, orphanages, and community centers in underserved areas. Each kit will contain a range of educational materials, including stationery, books, art supplies, hygiene items, and educational toys, tailored to the needs of different age groups. ➡️Collaborative Efforts: TTF and Unbounded Future have pooled their resources and expertise to make this program possible. Together, we have coordinated efforts to procure and assemble the education kits, leveraging our networks and partnerships to maximize impact and reach as many children as possible. ➡️Community Engagement: In addition to distributing education kits, the program will also include community engagement activities such as interactive workshops, storytelling sessions, and educational games. These activities will not only enhance the learning experience but also foster a sense of belonging and community spirit. #education #development #leadership #community #child #besiceducation Unbounded Future