The PK-12 Education Ecosystem
- - Faith and spirituality play a pivotal role in the lives of students, educators, and communities. Rather than being "hush-hush" about it, we need to find safe and brave ways to invite faith into our educational spaces.
- - Finding ways to enable strategic partnerships with faith and education organizations may help to accelerate achievement and other positive outcomes for the world's most vulnerable students.
- - There are three tiers of partnerships: Transactional, Relational, and Advocacy.
Schedule Information:
On Demand
Session Description
There are more than 50 million school-age children in the U.S. and over 350,000 houses of worship. What if each of these faith-filled groups sought to understand the challenges and opportunities facing the children in their community and worked across divides to support them? We are at an inflection point for kids and educators and we need all hands on deck. Drops in academic performance and other signs of struggle coming on the heels of a global pandemic require all of us to stop and ask — in the spirit of the traditional greeting of the African Maasai tribe — “How are the children?” This expression suggests that the true strength of a community is determined by the well-being of its children.