by Alejandro Gac-Artigas | Jul 6, 2020 | Education Leaders, Teachers
Amidst school closures on a massive scale, families are schools’ and systems’ greatest allies and assets. Districts must work with them and through them, or else the achievement gap will continue to grow with every passing day. Springboard Collaborative and Baltimore...
by Alejandro Gac-Artigas | Jul 1, 2020 | Education Leaders, Families, Teachers
My name is Alejandro and I’m the CEO of Springboard Collaborative. It has recently come to my attention that some books on the Reading A-Z (RAZ) platform do not reflect our shared antiracist values. I want to candidly and transparently share more context. One of...
by Stephanie Toronto | Apr 24, 2020 | Education Leaders, Teachers
These past few months have required all of us to come up with creative and flexible solutions to move forward. Springboard Collaborative is no different. At Springboard, we have dedicated our time to shifting our literacy and family engagement approach to online...
by Madhuri Mannava | Apr 22, 2020 | Education Leaders
Pivoting to a virtual classroom Our mission at Springboard Collaborative is to close the literacy gap and, in some ways, this gap has never felt as wide as it does now. In the face of these unexpected challenges, we wanted to know how schools are responding. So, we...
by Springboard Collaborative | Apr 13, 2020 | Education Leaders
Dr. Devin Dillon currently serves as Superintendent of PreK-12 Operations for the University California Los Angeles. In this role, she oversees five schools located on the UCLA campus, including three early childhood centers, UCLA Lab School, and Geffen Academy. From...
by Lindsey Sanborn | Apr 10, 2020 | Education Leaders, Teachers
In my first year of teaching, my class of 32 students had 8 rusty desktop computers. I remember feeling relieved that at least my students could rotate in four even groups to the computers. Two years later, at a school in a more affluent zip code, each of my students...
