Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
As educators have long known, their multiple efforts to help students “light their own fires” of learning don’t routinely work the way they expect. Lots of factors contribute to the range of student outcomes, including variations in the demographic mix of students in each class, the culture of the school, the complexity of subject matter, the persistent determination and ingenuity of teachers, the quality and availability of ongoing professional support for teachers to improve their craft, and the capacity of families to support learning. ... more
Everywhere you look, the tough problems created by the “new normal” have people, communities and governments in a tough spot. Do more with less…and do it better. ... more
The Advancing Solutions Team of the Bush Foundation recently hosted 20 community change researchers and evaluators from across the country, many of them colleagues I’ve met through the Community Development Society, a professional association. They came together to help us learn more about the difficult work of measuring progress in complex community change initiatives that seek to improve community vitality. ... more
On any given day, Minnesotans can pick up the newspaper and see evidence of partisanship at play in our state and national politics. It’s enough to turn many off. But it doesn’t have to be that way. ... more
