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Marshall Ganz, the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at Harvard Kennedy School, joined members of the Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board for a conversation about community organizing and leading change.
Read MoreUniversity Professor Martha Minow hosted a conversation on voter rights and voter suppression with Kia Simms, an organizer with Fair Fight Action, and Michael Firestone, Chief of Staff at Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.
Read MoreWhat is the civic empowerment gap, why does it matter, and how can it be eliminated? In this session, Professor of Education Meira Levinson and CEO Sean A. Floyd discussed insider politics and outsider activism, and why and how youth, people of color, first generation college students, and new Americans can upend traditional power disparities in U.S. politics.
Read MoreBlack Voters Matter Fund co-founder Cliff Albright discussed how BVM Fund and BVM Capacity Building Institute build community and organizational capacity related to Black voting power.
Read MoreJoin us for our free interactive training: “Building Relationship Through Deep Listening.” We’ll discuss ways to help students listen actively, share about themselves and express vulnerability, and develop key skills related to expressing empathy.
Read MoreEnsuring that every student has a positive relationship with at least one school adult is more important – and harder – than ever.
That’s why we’re offering offering a free one-hour webinar to schools and districts that would like to use our Relationship Mapping strategy in their communities. We’ve made this strategy as easy as possible to implement either virtually or in-person. Our hope is to help as many educators as possible ensure their students stay connected during this unprecedented time.
Read MoreCreating an equitable, inclusive school culture can be key in preventing a wide array of social and emotional problems and promoting the development of caring, responsible, and respectful children. Join us Thursday, July 23 from 3-4:30pm ET for our free interactive training: "School Climate Committee: Using Student Voice to Create an Equitable School Climate."
Read MoreRead Rick Weissbourd's Q&A with The Harvard Gazette’s Colleen Walsh on the future of college admissions and the new statement from admissions deans about what they expect from students during the pandemic.
Read MoreIn this week’s email newsletter, The Marshall Memo highlighted our collective statement from over 330 colleges admissions deans presenting their priorities during the pandemic: self-care, academic work, service and contributions to others, family contributions, and extracurricular and summer activities.
Read More"The pressure to succeed can be all-consuming for many teens, triggering symptoms of chronic stress, anxiety, and/or depression," writes Katie Hurley in Psychology Today. She describes the new statement from college admissions deans as “good news on the horizon for high school students, and their caregivers, as they navigate this difficult time.”
Read MoreSue O’Connell sat down with Rick Weissbourd on NECN to talk about the obstacles in the way for high school seniors this upcoming school year and what they should be thinking about when making a resume and applying to college.
Read MoreWhat will colleges expect from me?
"With limited access to traditional extracurriculars such as sports and school clubs, prospective college students are wondering," writes CNBC's Abigail Hess.
Our statement, endorsed by 315 college deans, aims to provide some guidance.
Read MoreEducation Dive summarizes our college admissions statement, highlighting one of our main goals of making the process more equitable.
"The pandemic is highlighting inequities in the college admissions process that existed long before it began," writes Natalie Schwarz.
"The statement also makes clear that no applicant will be penalized for a change in academic circumstances, which includes testing, because of the pandemic," writes Austin Horn in NPR.
Read More"For the high school seniors of the Class of 2021 and their parents, 'uncertainty' has been the theme when it comes to the impending college admissions process," writes Allison Stater Tate in Grown and Flown.
Read More"An experience of searching for and applying to college that was already fraught with anxiety, and loaded with perceived expectation, has been compounded by new feelings of insecurity and uncertainty, " writes Brennan Barnard in Forbes.
Read MoreSo what do admissions officials say they want and don’t want?" College officials have long talked about their holistic admissions practices, but the fact is that test scores have played a large role in many admissions decisions and can even determine where a student decides to apply. For next year, test scores won’t be a factor," writes Valerie Strauss in The Washington Post.
Read MoreJames Vaznis writes in The Boston Globe about the new collective statement from college admissions deans.
Read MoreScott Jaschik writes in Inside Higher Ed about our new statement that we issued with more than 300 admissions deans. The statement focuses on valuing self-care and family care -- and urging students to share their context so that colleges can understand their situations.
Read MoreGood Morning America highlights Making Caring Common's collective statement signed by more than 300 college admissions deans. The statement places an emphasis on things such as self-care along with academics amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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