Larry Pasti, Senior Consultant
“Teachable moments” matter. Kernels grow. Recently, a compelling concrete example arrived in my home. It gave me pause to reflect on the depth of science of learning and development that has mushroomed in the last few years. It’s real! First…
Katherine Plog Martinez, Consultant
Disruption creates opportunity.The walls are softened.There is increased recognition of the role community organizations can play.American…
Brenda McLaughlin, Chief Impact Officer, BellXcel and Managing Partner, Sperling Center for Research and Innovation
Dale A. Blyth, Deborah Moroney, and Jill Young
Over the last several months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused radical disruptions to our daily…
BRIGHT SPOT: FAST INITIATIVE, North Carolina
In June 2020, Kim Keith at the YMCA of the Triangle got a phone call. Wake County Public School System asked about the capacity of the Y. The county estimated that they needed twenty thousand spots to serve kids in the upcoming school year. Not twenty. Not two thousand. Twenty…
Karen Pittman with Deborah Moroney, David Osher, Hal Smith and Merita Irby
Readiness Projects Coordinating Partners
In March, when the metric for school closings was the number of days, the Readiness…
Winsome Waite, Senior Fellow and Karen Pittman, President and CEO, the Forum for Youth Investment