Graduate Strong: News You Can Use
March 2020
Upcoming Events
"Future Bound" Assistance
Do you or someone you know need help filing filing a FAFSA or WASFA? How about scholarship applications or creating a washboard.org profile? We can help! Attend an upcoming Senior $ession at the Haselwood YMCA.

Caring Adults Unite For Youth
When Communities Unite: A “village” of support and opportunity is sometimes needed to ensure the success of all youth in a community whether the challenges are academic success, prevention of substance use, or college and career readiness.

Educators, youth program workers, and community members often share a common goal—they want to help young people thrive and succeed. We believe that building developmental relationships with young people is the single most influential thing adults can do to help them succeed.

Last month we met for food, fellowship and fun. Join us next time!


Greater Good Happiness Calendar

Courtesy of Greater Good Science Center, this month be silly and find some common ground.

Use the interactive calendar now!
The Truth About Trauma Informed Care
“Trauma-informed care” is a movement
Service providers are talking about it. Researchers are studying it. Theorists are writing about it. Academics are teaching it. Practitioners are implementing it.

The Brain Architects: Toxic Stress

What is toxic stress? What effects can it have on a child’s body and development, and how can those effects be prevented? What does it mean to build resilience? This episode of The Brain Architects explores what “toxic stress” means, and what we can do about it.

Listen to the podcast now!
Quality Early Learning
Leading Men Fellows
It is an unprecedented collaboration, bringing together a cross section of leaders — from education, health care, philanthropic organizations, business and government — to name a few. And the stakes are high for a city with some of the widest black-white academic achievement gaps in the nation, where the high school graduation rate for black and low-income students hovers below 60 percent, and where black men in some neighborhoods are more likely to go prison than college.
Authors of Their Own Stories

While more than 50 percent of students in U.S. schools are children of color, only 13 percent of children’s books from the last 24 years contain “multicultural characters, storylines or settings,” according to a 2018 study conducted by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC).

SEL In Action Awards - Apply Now!

NoVo Foundation is committed to supporting the spread of social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in schools and districts nationwide. We know practitioners have some of the most inspiring, effective and innovative ideas in the field. NoVo Foundation, in partnership with Education First and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, aims to seed projects that foster social and emotional competencies in students in grades PK-12.

Whether you have an idea for a new initiative or want to expand or continue an existing project, we want to hear from you. For the 2020-21 school year, we are inviting applications for the SEL in Action Awards. Grant awards for educator-led projects will be a maximum of $7,000 each. District-level grant awards will be a maximum of $25,000 each.

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