Framework/Guide
LAEP Transform Schools for Black Lives: Student and Parent Voices
Los Angeles Education Partnership
A 7-minute video snapshot of the conversations that are happening amongst Black families and students every day.
Topic: Narrative and Storytelling
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Story / Case Study / Commentary
White Supremacy Culture Is Constraining Our Thinking about Reopening School
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A blog post suggesting better solutions to reopening schools in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by challenging the ways that the characteristics of white supremacy culture show up in our collective thinking.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Multiple Fallacies of Reopening School
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A blog post arguing that a failure of imagination may have been the greatest barrier to opening schools in ways that provide the best learning conditions for students during the pandemic.
Tool / Toolkit
Changing the Narrative on Public Education: A Communications Toolkit
Partnership for the Future of Learning
A communications toolkit from the Frameworks Institute designed to help advocates talk more effectively about the current needs and future possibilities of public education.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Why Art? Presentation
California State University San Marcos Foundation
An interactive presentation that showcases artwork from a course exploring how the desire for social change has led artists and art movements to align with political and social causes.
Research/Report
California Parent Poll: COVID-19 and School Closures
Education Trust, Inc.
The results of a poll that tested a long list of potential concerns among parents amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and found academic concerns rose to the top.
Tool / Toolkit
Education Equity in Crisis: The Digital Divide
Education Trust, Inc.
An interactive map that paints a picture of digital access across the state of California using estimates from the California Department of Education and statewide census data, produced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy Brief/Proposal
The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Principles: 2020
Education Trust, Inc.
Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2020, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators; special COVID-19 edition focused on addressing the needs of students of colors and students from lower income communities in the wake of the pandemic.
Framework/Guide
When People are the Content: A Systems Approach to Supporting Principals as Instructional Leaders
University of Washington College of Education, Center for Educational Leadership
A report and toolkit that school system leaders can use to create conditions for principals to be instructional leaders.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Choosing to Participate
Facing History and Ourselves
A 60 minute webinar interview with Dr. Henry Jenkins on the relationship between technology, learning, and civic engagement.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Flexibility, Human Connection, & Guidance
All4Ed
A podcast featuring discussion with Dr. David Miyashiro, superintendent of Cajon Valley School District.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
You Are Not Alone
All4Ed
A podcast featuring discussion with Jerry Almendarez, superintendent of Santa Ana Unified School District.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
We must help high school juniors and seniors stay on the college path
Linked Learning Alliance
An op-ed commentary on challenges and opportunities facing high school students graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Stay Focused on the Why
All4Ed
A podcast featuring discussion with Dr. Rosa Perez-Isiah, director of elementary schools at Norwalk La Mirada School District.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Becoming an Activist
Facing History and Ourselves
A webinar interview with civil rights icon Dolores Huerta.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Standing Up to Racism, Then and Now
Facing History and Ourselves
A webinar interview with actor and activist George Takei.
Research/Report
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Education 2020
Public Policy Institute of California
A report based on findings from a statewide survey on K-12 education conducted in 2020 in California.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
California Grape Workers’ Strike: 1965–66
Facing History and Ourselves
A case study on this pivotal event in the history of Latinx civil rights, for use as an instructional module for classroom lessons on civics.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Devil Is in the Details
Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc.
A book sharing how we can rethink the education and its three levels of leadership—local, middle, and top—so that each level can contribute to turnaround for education and society.