QED Foundation

Save the date: NH Gives is June 11-12! You can be part of the celebration by giving to your favorite nonprofit (which we know is us!). Visit nhgives.org to find out more.

It's so nice to see QED Foundation featured locally!

Giving Tuesday 2023: 5 Ways To Give Back In Amherst This holiday season, consider donating and volunteering locally to make a positive impact in our community.

Fun heavy work activities can be beneficial for building a child's proprioception. Want the whole list of activities? Find it here: https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-05-heavy-work-activites-heavy-work-prevents-proprioceptive-dysfunction-and-fosters-proprioceptive-success/

I’m proud to be one of the forty learner-centered practitioners, experts, systems thinkers, and young people Education Reimagined brought together to explore and imagine a future of thriving learner-centered ecosystems. The result, Designed to Thrive, is a guidebook to equitable learner-centered ecosystems.

From our group’s collective expertise, experience, and creativity, this guide emerged with frameworks and insights to support on-the-ground systems reinvention. I hope it leaves you feeling as excited about opportunities for invention as I am! https://designedtothrive.education-reimagined.org/

Prep for Success Program - All Kinds of Minds Free Info Session REGISTER HERE June 29, 7pm ET Ready to seize the day and prepare for a successful transition from high school to college? Our Prep for Success program will help ease your shift by providing guidance from expert coaches and your own personalized support coach. Summer Bridge, July 26...

We are excited to announce that we are offering a second virtual TAKOM training on August 1-4, 2022 (1pm-5pm ET daily). Training details are below. If you are interested in reserving slots, please send email to [email protected] or register with the following link.
https://forms.gle/XVx2RMd8KsYrxADk6

This training, for K-12 educators and school leaders, explores QED’s All Kinds of Minds™ Neurodevelopmental Framework for Learning (NDFL) to understand how the brain receives, filters, and uses information, and to consider how these insights can support classroom and school success. Participants can begin or elevate their understanding of the science of learning through academic themes that include listening, speaking, reading, and writing. During the 4-day virtual workshop, participants will develop a common language and framework to better understand and communicate the neurodevelopmental demands of learning and will leave with tools for next-day classroom use to support the academic, social, and emotional development of all learners.

Pathways to Purpose: AmazED Learning Environment - Education Reimagined In "Pathways to Purpose," Kim Carter shares the process of envisioning and creating AmazED's learning environment.

Looking for some joyous and inspirational summer learning with immediately practical applications? Check this out!
https://elevate.explo.org/learning/undisciplined-creating-c***ections-for-deeper-learning/

Undisciplined: Creating Connections for Deeper Learning – EXPLO Elevate What is interdisciplinary learning? How can we help our learners c***ect their skills, abilities, and knowledge across disciplines? Though we teach as specialists, our students are generalists. Join us for a dynamic 4-Day workshop as we explore and practice interdisciplinary learning to create c***e...

Brilliant in so many ways: building identity; reclaiming spaces; sharing joy, all through storytelling and arts.

Waniyetu Wowapi - Winter Count Welcome to the Cheyenne River Youth Project. Come with us into the heart of our circle, where you’ll meet our kids, parents, elders, artists, and partners.…

“How do we develop as many expert teachers as possible?”

The Center for Transformational Teaching and Learning (with Glenn Whitman at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School) addresses the question in their article, “A Powerful Combo: Diversity, Equity, and Belonging and Mind, Brain, and Education”, which explores different strategies grounded in diversity, equity, and belonging (DEB), as well as the science of teaching and learning or mind, brain, and education (MBE).

“Together, DEB and MBE are a powerful combination for great teaching and make learning more equitable—and better for every student, not just people of color, not just students with learning differences.” Learn how they are interc***ected in the article https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/winter-2022/a-powerful-combo-diversity-equity-and-belonging-and-mind-brain-and-education/ (link in bio)

REGISTER NOW for the virtual Teaching All Kinds of Minds training on June 27-30, 2022. We have a few slots left!

During the 4 day virtual workshop, participants will develop a common language and framework to better understand and communicate the neurodevelopmental demands of teaching and learning and will leave with tools for next-day classroom use to support the academic, social, and emotional development of all learners.

If you are interested in reserving slots, please send email to [email protected] or register with the following link.
https://forms.gle/puBGcGhftiNAyPeBA

QED specializes in transformational learning design and practices which focus on developing and supporting learning- and learner- centered communities.

Our theory of change is based on a commitment to tapping the knowledge and expertise that already exists in every community, while providing coaching, facilitation, and additional resources and models of practice, particularly in relation to the following areas:

💯Student Agency
💯Learning Culture
💯Personalized Learning
💯Mastery Based Learning

For more information about the transformational change areas, click the link (link in bio) https://www.qedfoundation.org/services/

Don't miss this latest report from Aurora Institute on Agency By Design. https://aurora-institute.org/resource/agency-by-design-making-learning-engaging/

New Aurora Institute Report - Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging This new report from Aurora Institute offers guidance – including practical advice – to education leaders and teachers in redesigning schools and classrooms by centering on learner agency, through a shift in the ownership of learning.

From one of the most articulate and feaerless truth-tellers I know, Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade:

"Why do we take children by law from their families at age six for 13 consecutive years for eight hours a day? Why are we doing that?."The sole foundational purpose of public schools should be youth wellness.

"...Every school should make a promise to every family that when you drop your child off to us in the morning and turn your back and walk away, our promise to you is that when you come back and pick them up your child will be more well than when you dropped them off. Now, I can say as a skilled, accomplished educator that that’s impossible. You cannot do that for every child every day and that’s okay. That’s okay. But you have to make the promise to the society and to families that that is our foundational purpose is to make sure that they leave the building more well than when they came in. And when we miss the mark, which we will, we will own it and we will atone. And atonement means that you both apologize and you make it right. So you know when you miss the mark with a child, a child is leaving less well than when they came in the building, that you have to pour more medicine in on that child the next day. There’s a debt due. And every family and every child should know that that’s the project."

https://turnaroundusa.org/the-180-podcast-jeff-duncan-andrade-the-purpose-of-education-should-be-youth-wellness/

The 180 Podcast: Jeff Duncan-Andrade: The Purpose of Education Should Be Youth Wellness - Turnaround for Children Jeff Duncan-Andrade: The Purpose of Education Should Be Youth Wellness Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade has a way of asking questions about the American public school system that are as precise as they are provocative. One of his questions: “Why do we take children by law from their families at age six for...

“Schooling is an institutional process by which you teach people to accept their place in life. Education is the process by which you teach them they can transform it.” — Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade

The 180 Podcast: Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade: How to Build a School Where the Goal is Youth Wellness - Turnaround for Children Listen to part two of our conversation on building schools with the goal of youth wellness with Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade on The 180 podcast.

QED Foundation updated their business hours.

Another AMAZING Seed + Spark community gathering, this time with the phenomenal adrienne maree brown. For a nourishing dose of beauty and wisdom, check it out at https://wi.st/3eQPVSk

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This could be the best 38 minute of your day!

Listen to Stephanie Malia Krauss speak about her new book, Making It: What Today's Kids Need For Tomorrow's World in which she goes beyond the question of what young people need to succeed in school, to ask what they need to be ready for life. http://ow.ly/Dgxr50EhWJE

Tune in to the NHASCD Spotlight podcast to hear Glenn discuss The CTTL's work in Mind, Brain, and Education Science and share the latest on Neuroteach Global. Thank you for having us, Jan! https://anchor.fm/nhascd/episodes/Mind-Brain-Research-and-the-Neuroteach-Global-Project-er4q1p/a-a4oot3q

Processes and Principles for Public Schools Navigating Uncertainty and Adapting to Change | Getting Smart Brooklyn LAB implemented a number of intentional and innovative learning practices as a response to the pandemic. In this post, they share their key findings.

These questions continue to be incredibly valuable, in whatever context learning is happening!

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Schools are facing complex new challenges as they plan to reopen for the upcoming year. , developed by , is with their fourth project, "Back to School Agency and Identity” Complimentary to their Back to School Facilities Tool Kit, Instructional Program Scheduling Map, and Success Coaching Playbook, the Back to School Learner Identity and Agency Guidebook was developed as a resource for schools nationwide to help students navigate and overcome obstacles, create positive change in their learning and life, and be the drivers of their education and future.

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https://www.equitybydesign.org/identity-and-agency-guidebook

IDENTITY AND AGENCY GUIDEBOOK | Equity By Design This Guidebook unpacks how to develop student identity and agency to provide more equitable and inclusive learning environments for all students. It aggregates the leading research, thinking, and strategies from experts in sociology, psychology, special education, educational equity, social justice,...

Bravo MC2 Charter School: Monadnock!

MC2: Connecting Students and Community Last spring, schools around the country shut down rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified. In New Hampshire, by executive order, schools were mandated to close for a short period and

Upcoming Webinar Opportunity Q.E.D. Foundation, Inc. and The Yellin Center for Mind, Brain, and Education are pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar Observations and Opportunities:  Supporting Your Child in Remote Learning September 4, 2020 at 12pm EST via Zoom  

Good questions for all of us - not just children!

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