The 2023 Educator AI Report: Perceptions, Practices, and Potential
Imagine Learning, the largest provider of digital curriculum solutions in the U.S., serving 15 million students in more than half the school districts nationwide, produced this 2023 report, showcasing a comprehensive exploration of AI’s current and future role in K-12 classrooms. With Generative AI emerging as a pivotal element in the dynamic educational landscape of 2023, Imagine Learning conducted the survey to explore the perceptions, current practices, and future aspirations of educators who have already embraced technology in the classroom. One compelling finding coming out of the report is that a resounding 90% of educators surveyed believe that AI has the potential to make education more accessible. Increasingly, teachers are recognizing that when implemented ethically and with thoughtful consideration, AI can help students with special needs, learning disabilities, and language barriers, for example, and experience more effective, personalized learning methods.
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Black Thought Project: Lessons on Centering Blackness
This 2024 report by Alicia M. Walters, The Maven Collaborative, reflects on the first four years of the Black Thought Project. Created by The Maven Collaborative with funding support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Black Thought Project is a community-based experiment that leverages interactive art installations to create safe spaces of expression and reflection for Black people.
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Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
This 2024 report was prepared by Child Trends for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This brief is the first in a five-part series, sharing the findings of a comprehensive survey of state-level kinship care policies. Kinship care is an important option to consider for kids moving through the child welfare system. A timely placement with relatives or close family friends can reduce the trauma a child experiences from being separated from their parents, siblings, friends, communities and even social support resources, such as schools and churches.
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How Youth Surveys Guide Collective Community Investment and Planning Benefits of Using Youth Data
This 2024 report was prepared by Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, and supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It opens by describing why and where youth surveys add value. It draws from lessons from six communities that introduced and implemented these surveys in schools under an Evidence2Success framework. The document closes by offering practical suggestions, advice and steps for adopting this approach and leveraging a survey’s findings. The end goal is to empower community leaders, residents, educators and program providers to systematically and strategically implement a survey and utilize its results to make better, smarter decisions about youth and family programs.
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In Search of the Magic Bullet; Results from the Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative
Arts organizations found it’s possible to engage both new and current audiences, but it takes time and might not happen on their desired terms. That’s one of several key learnings in this 2024 report by Francie Ostrower, which reports findings from the nonprofit performing arts organizations that participated in Wallace’s Building Audiences for Sustainability (BAS) initiative from 2015 to 2019. The 25 organizations tested different approaches to building new audiences while keeping their current audiences engaged. Some focused on age groups, such as millennials or Gen-X; others looked at location and how they interacted with their community. Some worked to attract a more racially or ethnically diverse audience. A few sought to build audiences for new or less familiar works.
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Measuring Youth Development: How Out-of-School Time Programs Collect and Use Data
High-quality out-of-school-time programs are looking for ways to get a better handle on their impact in several areas, including equity and long-term outcomes. This 2024 report looks at how afterschool, summer, and other out-of-school-time (OST) programs gauge their work and impact. It also examines the obstacles they face in doing so. And it offers recommendations for how to remove those obstacles. It is based in large part on interviews and surveys of staffers from OST programs that experts in the OST field recommended for study.
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Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools An Action Guide for School and District Leaders
Schools are prioritizing students’ mental health, and there are many tools and resources to choose from in addressing mental health challenges. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created this 2024 action guide as a place to start. It can help school and district leaders build on what they are already doing to promote students’ mental health and find new strategies to fill in gaps. The action guide describes six in-school strategies that are proven to promote and support mental health and well-being. For each strategy, the guide also describes approaches, or specific ways to put the strategy into action, and examples of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices.
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Changing Course in Youth Detention: Reversing Widening Gaps by Race and Place
Changing Course in Youth Detention: Reversing Widening Gaps by Race and Place is a report prepared by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and published in August 2023. A main finding is that there are large and widening gaps in youth detention by race and place, based on a three-year analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on juvenile justice systems. When it comes to the odds of being detained, young people in the United States live in different worlds, depending on their race and the region and jurisdiction where they reside. The disproportionate use of detention for Black youth — already distressingly high before the pandemic — has increased. Also, over that three-year period, where youth lived mattered to a greater extent to their odds of being detained than it did before.
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Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth: An Action Guide for Cross-System and Sector Leaders and Practitioners
Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth: An Action Guide for Cross-System and Sector Leaders and Practitioners is a 2023 guide created by The Forum for Youth Investment. It is designed to help public- and private-sector leaders build ecosystems that are better suited to help young people thrive. It is specifically intended to support coordinated initiatives where multiple youth-serving organizations or agencies are already working together. To generate this guide, The Forum convened a wide range of national thought leaders, practitioners and youth. The group fulfilled a two-part charge: 1) explore research-based concepts for supporting learning and development; and 2) create tools to help youth and adults put these concepts to use within their own environments. Once this work was complete, the Forum engaged more than 50 youth to both create a Youth Journey Map for Belonging and Opportunity and build an action guide for systems leaders on fostering youth well-being and belonging.
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Developing Leaders: Reflecting on the Children and Family Fellowship
Developing Leaders: Reflecting on the Children and Family Fellowship pays tribute to 30 years of the Children and Family Fellowship with short, first-person reflections on the program and leadership from participants, faculty, staff and partners. The Fellows discuss four themes: results and equity; self-awareness and leadership development; collaboration, peer-to-peer learning and mutual support; and weathering change and transitions. The book was published in November 2023 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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