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Arts

Cultural Organizations Turn the Lens on Their Communities

November 15, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

How Community Partnerships Strengthen Summer Learning in Rural Districts

November 12, 2024 Report

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Arts

What's the Alchemy for a Successful Arts Organization?

October 29, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

Applying Summer Learning Evidence How Texas State Policy Supports Strong Programming

October 22, 2024 Brief

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

How School Districts Prepare and Develop Principals Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey

October 15, 2024 Report

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Social and Emotional Learning

Building up SEL in Afterschool

September 19, 2024 Article

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Oh No! It’s Not You, It's Me!

August 28, 2024 Article

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School Leadership

A Strong School Year Starts with Strong Leadership

August 20, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

Going Beyond High School Credit Recovery in Summer Learning From Remediation to Acceleration

August 15, 2024 Brief

AXIS Choreo-Lab Fellow DJ Robinson, who is blind, shares a tactile map of a dance studio with AXIS dancers Julie Hasushi & Anna Gichan. Julie sits in her wheelchair, Anna sits cross-legged on the floor.

Arts

Dance Companies Embrace New Directions and New Voices

August 14, 2024 Article

School Leaders, Digital Promise

School Leadership

What Do School and District Leaders Need to Know About AI?

August 6, 2024 Article

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Arts Education

Arts Learning Is Learning. Full Stop.

July 30, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

Summer Learning Is in Full Swing…Time to Start Thinking About Next Year

July 17, 2024 Article

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Arts

Checking in on the Advancing Well-Being in the Arts Initiative

July 11, 2024 Article

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Afterschool

Summer Learning

Responding, Reimagining, Realizing Out-of-School Time Coordination in a New Era

June 26, 2024 Report

Doug Anthony, assistant principle

School Leadership

Why Assistant Principals Deserve More Attention

June 24, 2024 Article

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Afterschool

Helping Young People Find Their Power

June 10, 2024 Article

Dolores Delgado Bernal

School Leadership

Tapping Family Stories, Experience, and Community Context in Education Research

June 5, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

Why–and How–Two Districts Transformed Their Summer Programs

May 29, 2024 Podcast

School Leadership

Principal Training

What If We Paid Educators for Their Training Instead of Charging Them?

May 29, 2024 Article

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Arts

Building Arts Audiences: Strategies That Hold Up

May 21, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

School Was in This Summer, but Less Than Half of Eligible Students Enrolled Selected Findings from the Fall 2023 American School District Panel Survey

May 17, 2024 Report

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School Leadership

Busting 5 Myths About Being a Principal

May 9, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

How to Make Your Summer Program Last

May 1, 2024 Article

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School Leadership

Central Office Transformation for Equitable Teaching & Learning Self-Study Guide 1.0

April 30, 2024 Discussion Guide

Female mariachi band performers on stage.

Arts

Webinar: “In Search of the Magic Bullet”

April 16, 2024 Presentation

Kaylen Tucker, NAESP’s associate executive director of communications

School Leadership

Principal Training

Supporting School Leaders of Color

April 2, 2024 Article

Teacher and students in playground

Afterschool

How Youth-Led Research Really Makes a Difference

March 26, 2024 Article

Philadanco dancer in 2023

Arts

The Organizations Spearheading the Advancing Well-Being in the Arts Initiative

March 21, 2024 Video

A group of Black students perform on stage

Arts Education

Connected Arts, Creative Kids, Thriving Communities

March 19, 2024 Podcast

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Cross-Sector Collaboration

Can Cross-Sector Partnerships Make a Difference for Adolescents?

March 7, 2024 Article

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School Leadership

Principal Training

What Does an Effective Principal do?

March 5, 2024 Article

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Afterschool

Summer Learning

Measuring Youth Development How Out-of-School Time Programs Collect and Use Data

February 27, 2024 Report

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School Leadership

Afterschool

Summer Learning

Public Policy

Proposed Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria-Comprehensive Centers Program

February 26, 2024 Comment Letter

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Building a Principal Pipeline? These Tools Can Help

February 22, 2024 Article

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Arts

In Search of the Magic Bullet Results from the Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative

February 21, 2024 Report

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Summer Learning

Lessons from the Lone Star State: How Districts in Texas Are Thinking About Summer Program Sustainability

January 24, 2024 Podcast

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Arts

Stitching Together a Community in the Arts

January 23, 2024 Article

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Summer Learning

Unlocking the Potential of Summer Learning

January 16, 2024 Video

ARKAI duo being interviewed by a Wallace staff member. All 3 men are sitting in chairs by the window with view of NYC behind

Arts

The Magic’s in the Strings

December 18, 2023 Article

African American girl jumping through the air

News

And the Most Popular Story of the Year is…

December 12, 2023 Article

Kids and adults painting a murial

Arts

Increasing Arts Access for Underserved Communities

November 30, 2023 Article

Stage full of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing on various orchestra instruments.

Arts

Orchestras Conduct Audiences Back to the Halls

November 20, 2023 Article

Jackie Wilson

School Leadership

Pioneering School Leadership in Delaware and Beyond

November 7, 2023 Article

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School Leadership

The Principal Difference in Effective Schools

October 6, 2023 Presentation

Black boy doing some gardening, picking green leaf's from a plant

Social and Emotional Learning

Seeds of Success

September 22, 2023 Video

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Afterschool

How One City Helped Pave the Way for Afterschool Systems Across the Country

September 19, 2023 Article

Child and instructor making pottery

Afterschool

Summer Learning

How Equity-Minded School Districts Run Afterschool and Summer Programs

September 12, 2023 Article

Three Years After Pandemic, Theaters Still Navigate Uncertain Waters

Arts

Three Years After Pandemic, Theaters Still Navigate Uncertain Waters

September 6, 2023 Article

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School Leadership

Public Policy

Wallace’s work in K-12 education: Evidence on school leadership, summer learning, and afterschool

September 6, 2023 Presentation

Mark Anthony Gooden, Christian Johnson Endeavor Professor of Education Leadership at Columbia University’s Teachers College

School Leadership

On Risk-taking, Racial Identity, and Leading With Equity

August 29, 2023 Article

Art Teacher, white with a black student, standing in front of an easel.

Arts Education

Setting the Stage Practical Ideas for Implementing High-Quality Afterschool Arts Programs

August 24, 2023 Report

Envisioning–and Enacting–Equity in Arts Funding

Arts

Arts Education

Envisioning–and Enacting–Equity in Arts Funding

August 22, 2023 Article

NY Leadership Academy Class of Aspiring Principals

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

A Culturally Responsive School Leadership Approach to Developing Equity-Centered Principals Considerations for Principal Pipelines

July 10, 2023 Report

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Afterschool

Summer Learning

Public Policy

Draft U.S. Department of Education Guidance on 21st Century Community Learning Centers

July 5, 2023 Comment Letter

A room full of children, 3 boys are talking to a male adult

Summer Learning

A National Call to Action for Summer Learning How Did States Respond?

July 1, 2023 Report

School Leadership

Three Topics Educators and Students Want You to Pay Attention To

June 22, 2023 Article

Black woman, standing in front of a table speaking, another white woman sitting and looking at the woman speaking

School Leadership

Assistant Principal Advancement to the Principalship: A Guide for School Districts

June 20, 2023 Discussion Guide

Mixed race boys and girls in a classroom

Afterschool

School/OST Partnerships Help Kids Thrive, Thanks to Pandemic Funding

June 15, 2023 Article

White female teacher with mixed race boy and girl

Summer Learning

Two New Tools for Your Summer Learning Toolbox

June 7, 2023 Article

People sitting at a table (2 white men, a black man and white woman) discussing Principal Pipeline Initiative at Baruch College

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Principal Pipeline Toolkit

June 1, 2023 toolkit

Conference attendees consider principal pipelines and equity

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Planning and Developing Principal Pipelines Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges

June 1, 2023 Report

Children collaborate with each other on a project.

Arts Education

Don’t Dictate, Collaborate Achieving Equity in Arts Education

May 31, 2023 Report

A black girl sitting in the library reading a book

Afterschool

Change Is Inevitable. Are Out-of-School Time Programs Ready for It?

May 2, 2023 Article

Arts Education

More Arts = More Benefits for Kids

April 25, 2023 Article

A group of students sitting on the floor listening to a lecture

Afterschool

Expanding Equity in Afterschool and Summer Learning Lessons From School Districts

April 17, 2023 Report

2 male black teachers talking in a classroom, with a young black boy sitting at his desk doing schoolwork.

School Leadership

What Do Black Students Need from Principals?

April 11, 2023 Article

2 white girls sitting in a classroom in Tuscaloosa Schools. One of them sticking her tongue out.

Afterschool

Summer Learning

Social and Emotional Learning

Ensuring Access to Out-of-School-Time Programs and Using Federal Funds to Pay for It

March 21, 2023 Article

Graphic for the Beyond the Classroom Podcast series showing keyboard, notebook, pen and headphones

Afterschool

What Can Young People Teach Us About Out-of-School Time?

March 14, 2023 Article

Mixed race female students wearing masks standing outside

Afterschool

Making Out-of-School-Time Programs More Accessible

March 7, 2023 Podcast

Afterschool Perspective Summer NAZA Nashville

Afterschool

Professionalization and Precarity of the Workforce

March 7, 2023 Podcast

PASA Summer AZ at SCLT

Afterschool

Creating Programs Where Everyone Belongs

March 7, 2023 Podcast

School Leadership

Want Transformational School Leaders? Invest in Partnerships, Support, and Equity

March 2, 2023 Article

Three students work on their artwork.

Arts Education

How Connected Arts Learning Can Expand Our View of the Impacts of Arts Education

March 2, 2023 Report

Three students work on their artwork.

Arts Education

The Connected Arts Learning Framework An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning

March 1, 2023 Report

A young black girl sitting at her desk using a glue stick

Afterschool

What Young People Want from Afterschool Programs

February 24, 2023 Article

2 mixed race women sitting in an outdoor space with plants in the background

The Future of Diversity and Equity in Museums

February 14, 2023 Article

A teacher writing on a large paper board, with 4 students sitting and watching

Social and Emotional Learning

Afterschool

Skills for Success Developing Social and Emotional Competencies in Out-of-School-Time Programs

February 13, 2023 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

All Hands on Deck to Support Principals

February 9, 2023 Article

mixed race children with arms around each other

Summer Learning

How Seven Foundations Bolstered Afterschool, Summer Programming as COVID Raged

January 24, 2023 Article

Many students sitting in a room on the floor, 3 of which are playing checkers

Summer Learning

Report Examines How School Districts Ramped Up Summer Learning in Response to Pandemic

January 17, 2023 Article

Children participate in Wallace Foundation program at Camp Carmalt at Carmalt Elementary School in Pittsburgh, PA.

Summer Learning

Let’s Make Summer a Season of Opportunity for Students

January 10, 2023 Article

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News

It's Here: Wallace's Top Ten Posts of 2022

December 13, 2022 Article

Collage of diverse people with "Power Of Us" written on top.

Afterschool

Study Seeks to Understand Adults Working with Young People Outside of School

December 8, 2022 Article

A room full of children, 3 boys are talking to a male adult

Summer Learning

National Call to Action for Summer Learning How Did School Districts Respond?

December 1, 2022 Report

School Leadership

Pennsylvania Voices Unite for a Diverse Pool of Teachers–and Principals

November 30, 2022 Article

Summer Learning

Empowering States to Leverage Summer Learning: A Network Approach

November 9, 2022 Podcast

Social and Emotional Learning

Navigating SEL From the Inside Out Looking Inside & Across 18 Leading SEL Programs: A Practical Resource for Schools and OST Providers—Middle & High School Focus

November 1, 2022 Report

4 female teachers and principal sitting around a table, talking, with laptop and papers on the table

School Leadership

Public Policy

States as Leaders, Followers, and Partners Lessons from the ESSA Leadership Learning Community and the University Principal Preparation Initiative

November 1, 2022 Report

School Leadership

Focusing on Principal Wellness: 6 Questions for School Leaders

October 26, 2022 Article

Arts

Exploring History and Culture with Arts Organizations of Color

October 11, 2022 Article

A white teacher sitting at a table with a young boy at a desk, both holding a pencil

Social and Emotional Learning

Lessons from Six Communities Building Students’ SEL Skills

October 5, 2022 Article

Jennifer Peck speaks during Summer Learning Day at the State Capitol in Sacramento in June 2012.

Afterschool

The Long Game How One Afterschool Intermediary Organization and Its Partners Shaped Policy, Practice, and Perception in California

October 1, 2022 Report

Children participate in the Wallace Foundation program at Camp Carmalt at Carmalt Elementary School Brookline, Pittsburgh, PA.

Summer Learning

The Power of Summer Learning Partnerships

September 22, 2022 Podcast

A white male principal giving a high-five to a young female student in a school hallway

School Leadership

University's Revamped Principal Training Yields Changes for District, Too

September 14, 2022 Article

A group of mixed race female teachers sitting around a desk in a classroom with a group of mixed race and gender young students

School Leadership

All the Voices Statewide Collaborations for School Leadership under ESSA

September 1, 2022 Report

Two teachers walk alongside each other.

Social and Emotional Learning

Learning to Focus on Adult Social and Emotional Learning First in Tulsa One of Six Case Studies of Schools and Out-of-School-Time Program Partners

September 1, 2022 Report

Students sit in a circle.

Social and Emotional Learning

Prioritizing Racial Equity Within Social and Emotional Learning in Tacoma One of Six Case Studies of Schools and Out-of-School-Time Program Partners

September 1, 2022 Report

A teacher and student wearing masks hold up a handmade frame that reads "Caught Being Kind"

Social and Emotional Learning

Engaging Teachers, Staff, and Parents in Social and Emotional Learning in Palm Beach County One of Six Case Studies of Schools and Out-of-School-Time Program Partners

September 1, 2022 Report

A student and his teacher smiles at the camera.

Social and Emotional Learning

Jointly Prioritizing Time for Social and Emotional Learning in Denver One of Six Case Studies of Schools and Out-of-School-Time Program Partners

September 1, 2022 Report

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