Publications
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SCG’s Immigration is American Collaboration Network
Earlier this year, Seek Common Ground launched the Immigration is American Collaboration Network, bringing together organizations that work with immigrant and refugee students and families, inside and outside of the classroom, to provide supports for children and their families to better understand and access the P-12 education system in America. Read here →
Community Building and Democracy in Action
Seek Common Ground has established the Leadership Collaboration Network. The Network provides space, funding, and expertise to empower, connect, and support a diverse cohort of leaders who share a commitment to making their leadership and community building practices more democratic and open. Read here →
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Accelerating a Whole Child Approach to Education in Ohio
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. Read here →
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. Read here →
These organizations in the third phase of Seek Common Ground’s ARPA Action Accelerator set out to build bridges and bust silos across agencies to ensure the promise of the influx of funding could be fulfilled.
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.
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.
SCG Beyond the Numbers — 2021 was a big year for Seek Common Ground!
If the point of public education is to prepare young people to enter American society, it’s worth asking how assessment and accountability policies and practices serve that goal.
Meet a few of the inspiring Ohio leaders and organizations we’ve gotten to know.
In this Richmond Times-Dispatch column, author Kristen Amundson highlights the Seek Common Ground Family Guides as a resource for teachers and caretakers.
As a former teacher, school board chair, and state legislator, Kristen J. Amundson has spent decades answering parents’ questions about school. This book highlights 81 questions, covering a child’s school journey from preschool to postsecondary education, and heavily features the SCG Family Guides.
This blog post written by TNTP Project Director Kristy Sullivan references the SCG Family Guides as a way for families and caregivers can support learning acceleration at home.
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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.
While each of the six organizations—Advance Illinois, Council for a Better Louisiana, The Education Trust-New York, Expect More Arizona, Ohio Excels and Tennessee SCORE— developed a unique project to inform and engage families in their state around assessment and accountability issues, there were shared learnings across projects. This is noteworthy as the conditions (political, and otherwise) in each of the states was quite different and yet, there were common themes.
In this Richmond Times-Dispatch Editorial piece, authors Pamela Stallsmith and Chris Gentilviso talk to Seek Common Ground CEO Sandy Boyd and former chair of the Fairfax County School Board Kris Amundson about education and the challenges they’re facing with COVID-19.
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K-5 Guides in English and Spanish Aim to Help Families Navigate the 2020-21 School Year.
Authored by Ambika Kapur and Laverne Srinivansan, this opinion piece from the 74 features the Family Guides created by Seek Common Ground and Student Achievement Partners.
Seek Common Ground Brings Together Six Statewide Education Advocacy Organizations Elevating Community Voices to Grapple with a School Year Like No Other
Seek Common Ground Brings Together 12 Community-based Organizations to Ensure Families, Students, and Educators Drive What School Looks Like This Fall.
Seek Common Ground Board Member, Nate Bowling, is featured on the cover of Carnegie Corporation’s new report on transformative family engagement (photo credit: Chris Barron). Also accompanying the report is the essay written by Sandy Boyd and Michael Gilligan that first appeared in the 74 ,“From Traditional Campaigns to Building A Movement: The Evolution of Family am Community Engagement-Based Advocacy”
A Report from The Redstone Strategy Group.
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