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Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Large class sizes, inadequate teaching and learning materials, and insufficient teacher training all present roadblocks to innovation. Changes encompassed teaching and learning materials, in-service teacher training to support professional development, assessment practices of student work, school leadership, and school inspection.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Creating pathways for educating for economic democracy requires more than curriculum and content. Participants sensed that we were onto something exciting, but we weren’t sure exactly what.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

And as nonprofits moved away from their member-driven and member-funded mutual aid and organizing roots, they took on a hierarchical structure modeled after corporate culture, became dependent on grants from foundations/government, and became run by “expert” staff to provide services or lead advocacy efforts.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government and its welfare state programs—often known as the New Deal, and including federal programs and reforms such as Social Security and the Works Progress Administration, were forged in the world-historical political events of the first half of the 20th century and the rise of a powerful labor movement.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.