This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There are challenges to implementing an approach that focuses on a culture of improvement which encourages educators to start with questions rather than solutions. • This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Five students leveraged their knowledge, skills, and unique perspectives to help global leaders realize how storytelling can advance the Sustainable Development Goals. • How can donors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer we brought three youth services organizations serving the Los Angeles community—A Place Called Home, Da Vinci RISE High School and Fulfillment Fund—and special guest, Steve Ballmer, co-founder of Ballmer Group Philanthropy and former…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks for solutions and opportunities in every sector of the U.S. economy. That includes agriculture, which emits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • An online curriculum that teaches students and educators how to become “fluent” in AI will be beneficial as artificial intelligence starts to permeate schools and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As colleges around the country resumed in-person learning in the fall of 2021, many educators expected students to return to campus after taking a pandemic gap year. But a funny…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As educators work through another unpredictable year, schools must lean into reinvention. The sudden onset of COVID-19 forced schools and systems to change on the fly, required teachers, families and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A ballroom full of superintendents and other educators gathering from across the country just returned from lunch break when they were asked to stand up for a stretch. “We are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Teaching media literacy can help foster student activism by applying a critical perspective to the inequalities within media messages and symbols that students see every day. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Effective leadership from principals can happen by empowering teachers to do their best, rather than focusing on achieving assessment outcomes. • The desired outcomes should happen if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cooped up at home in Herat, Afghanistan, Zainab Muhammadi reminisces about hanging out with her friends in the cafeteria after coding class. Now she logs on every day to secret…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part two in a three part series. Read part one. In recent years, there has been a growing push for nonprofits to move to a participatory feedback model. But what…