The Seek Common Ground team is excited to introduce its two newest members, Alex Ames and Will Powers, our 2022 Summer Fellows.
Right now, it can be challenging to find reasons to celebrate. The pandemic, classroom censorship bills, and raging culture wars are dispiriting. Bright spots can seem dim. Yet there are many, and they can be found by looking within our own communities.
Explore relevant, innovative, and replicable resources created by our Learning Community in the SCG Innovation Hub.
Seek Common Ground supported 15 community organizations and leaders across Akron, Cleveland, and Southeast Ohio implementing innovative approaches to meet student needs using a whole child approach through our unique Action Accelerator model. The Ohio Whole Child Action Accelerator demonstrates the importance of engaging and supporting communities in co-creating sustainable change so that students, families, and communities can thrive.
Together, we launched the Student Action Network for Equity, concluded our biggest Action Accelerator to date (in Ohio), and continued to ensure, through our ARPA Action Accelerator, that communities were involved in setting priorities for federal relief spending.
Since its launch in January of this year, Seek Common Ground’s (SCG) Student Action Network for Equity (SANE) has connected students from Connecticut to California and distributed over $100,000 of funding to student- and intergenerationally-led groups along the way.
Explore relevant, innovative, and replicable resources created by our Learning Community in the SCG Innovation Hub.
In this Richmond Times-Dispatch column, author Kristen Amundson highlights the Seek Common Ground Family Guides as a resource for teachers and caretakers.
Seek Common Ground CEO, Sandy Boyd, and Student Achievement Partners President, Amy Briggs, write about the Family Guides in this opinion piece published by the 74.
Seek Common Ground CEO Sandy Boyd is interviewed and quoted in this Education Week article written by Andrew Ujifusa.
This Richmond Times-Dispatch column, authored by Kristen Amundson, plugs the Seek Common Ground Family Guides while informing parents what questions they should be asking as students return to school buildings.
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As the pandemic forced schools across the country to close in the spring and summer, policy actors in the education sector began to formulate solutions that could get students and educators safely back to school in the fall.
But for many local community activists, one voice was missing in the debate: their own.
Authored by National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Communication Director, Renee Rybak Lang, this article featured in the Jan. 2021 NASBE magazine highlights Seek Common Ground and Student Achievement Partners’ Family Guides as a resource for creating meaningful conversations between parents, educators, and school communities.
