This week's blog is a trip through our past as we look at how City Connects promotes #StudentSuccess in schools around the country! buff.ly/3O8V9IK

Evidence points to best practices for addressing students’ comprehensive strengths and needs. The first National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support bring insights from researchers and practitioners together. Learn more: buff.ly/3OtIhOk

Happy to share our new piece on the implementation of full-service community schools in rural Leslie County, KY - and even happier to have had a chance to meet and learn from the incredible educators making it happen. Full-Service Community Schools: Leslie County Partners for Rural Impact Community Schools

Evidence points to best practices for addressing students’ comprehensive strengths and needs. The first National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support bring insights from researchers and practitioners together. Learn more: buff.ly/3OtIhOk

New Chetty, et. al. study on cross-class social networks: "These cross-class friendships...had a stronger impact than school quality, family structure, job availability or a community’s racial composition." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“Schools need help to get through this new challenge — and, in the process, to build a better student support system for years to come.” #k12 #edu #integratedstudentsupport ⁦The Washington Post⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Weekly Connect: pandemic-triggered gap between higher- and lower-performing students isn’t narrowing; expanded safety net leads to sharp drop in child poverty; access to free, full-day kindergarten grows. #EducationNews #StudentSuccess cityconnectsblog.org/2022/09/19/the…

Student support is at the core of what City Connects does, providing the right service to the right child at the right time. That ethos is also at the heart of the new National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support. Learn more about the guidelines buff.ly/3OtIhOk

Lessons we learned while creating the first set of National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support: Integration and coordination of comprehensive services is key both at the level of each student and the level of the school. Learn more: buff.ly/3OtIhOk

This week, we sent out the latest version of our Center newsletter. In it, we wrote about the National Guidelines, our latest Progress Report, and more. Want to keep up with the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children? Sign up for our emails here: buff.ly/3PKHIAS

Lessons we learned while creating the first set of National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support: Different evidence-based approaches use varied mechanisms to achieve many of the same core functions inside of a school. Learn more: buff.ly/3OtIhOk

Today's blog: How City Connects builds relationships between schools and families -- because strong relationships boost #StudentSuccess and #FamilyEngagement cityconnectsblog.org/2022/10/20/cit…

Our Center's jo Wasser Gish joined the NGA for a discussion with Anna Maier of Learning Policy Institute and Jose Munoz of Community Schools. Watch in the link below!

Today's blog: City Connects continues to grow in Indiana - helping to boost #StudentSuccess and connect schools to #CommunityPartners. cityconnectsblog.org/2022/11/10/gro…

ICYMI, Our own Joan Wasser Gish co-authored this op-ed on how public dollars would go further, faster with integrated student support infrastructure that delivers relationships and resources to students #edpolicy #integratedsupport buff.ly/3UT5wVf

The consequences of income inequality are growing in Norway too, despite progressive child and family policy. A decade of population data shows large & growing disparity in achievement (5th, 8th, and 10th gr) between rich and poor. Center for Thriving Children Boston College Lynch School BC Research News

Today's blog: The Condition of Education report #COE2023 from The Rennie Center points to City Connects as a way to strengthen the #FutureOfEducation in Massachusetts. Liz Yoder - a coordinator Salem Public Schools -explains how. #MaPoli cityconnectsblog.org/2023/02/03/bui…

School districts are being inundated with “student support” service providers but have little guidance on how to select or manage them. Policymakers should step in to provide some basic quality control, write Joan Wasser Gish and Haibin Jiang. brookings.edu/blog/brown-cen…

Policymakers should establish quality benchmarks to help districts ensure a minimum, evidence-based standard of care for students, argue Joan Wasser Gish and Haibin Jiang. brookings.edu/blog/brown-cen…

Preschool teachers: researchers Boston College Lynch School are hoping to learn more about your classroom early math practices (in a brief survey). @ToniGalassini naeycearlymath Erikson Early Math DREME Network