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2.8 million high school students took college cour 2.8 million high school students took college courses last year. At community colleges, dual enrollment is now one in five students on campus.

Middle colleges take that idea all the way: an entire high school on a college campus, where the diploma and the credit are designed to arrive together.

Join us to learn more: September 29 at 12pm ET. Register on our website at link in bio.

Figures: Community College Research Center, 2023-24 data

#DualEnrollment #MiddleCollege #CollegeAffordability #StudentDebt #CollegeAccess #FirstGen #HigherEd #EarlyCollege
Thinking about starting an apprenticeship at your Thinking about starting an apprenticeship at your organization? 

Loyd Patterson is one year into running one at a 50-person solar company in South Carolina. His advice: you need one person whose actual job it is, or it gets lost in the busyness of business.

And if you do not have that person, partner with an organization that already runs a registered program and work under their umbrella. You are not required to build it alone.

Watch the full recording of our August Meeting the Moment webinar on our YouTube page at the link in bio.
🎓 A high school on a college campus. A diploma and 🎓 A high school on a college campus. A diploma and college credit earned at the same time. Often at no cost to the family.

Middle colleges are one of the most effective pathways in American education, and one of the least talked about!

On September 29 at 12pm ET, three leaders who run these programs sit down with Dan Wuori to explain how they work.

Free registration on our website at the link in bio.

#MiddleCollege #EarlyCollege #DualEnrollment #CollegeAccess #FirstGen #CollegeAffordability #EducationEquity #HigherEd #CommunityCollege #PublicEducation
You can be a registered apprentice at 16. While yo You can be a registered apprentice at 16. While you are still in high school.

South Carolina has roughly 7,000 registered apprentices right now. About 3,000 of them are 24 or younger, and a good share have not graduated yet.

And it is not a junior version. Amanda Richardson of @apprenticeship.carolina says a youth apprenticeship has to meet every requirement of any program registered with the U.S. Department of Labor. Same standard, same national credential, same wage progression. What changes is your age and where the classroom part comes from, whether that is your high school, a technical college, or the company itself.

The career does not have to start after graduation!

Watch the full webinar from our Meeting the Moment series on our YouTube page at the link in bio.
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Most funding for workforce programs is not promise Most funding for workforce programs is not promised to anyone.

Amanda Richardson runs Apprenticeship Carolina, and her team connects employers to federal grants, state workforce dollars, and college scholarship funds. She also tells those employers to put their own money in, because outside funding runs out and a program built entirely on it does not last.

Full conversation on our YouTube page at the link in bio.
Join us this Friday, August 28, for Meeting the Mo Join us this Friday, August 28, for Meeting the Moment: How Apprenticeship Programs Strengthen the Workforce.

Moderated by Dan Wuori, this conversation will explore how apprenticeship models combine hands-on learning, employer partnerships, and career-connected training to expand opportunity and meet workforce needs.

Featuring Amanda Richardson of Apprenticeship Carolina / SC Technical College System and Loyd Patterson of Firefly Construction Group.

Register on our website, at link in bio.
How can apprenticeship programs strengthen the wor How can apprenticeship programs strengthen the workforce?

Join us this Friday, August 28, for a Meeting the Moment conversation moderated by Dan Wuori, featuring leaders from Apprenticeship Carolina and Firefly Construction Group.

Register on our website, at link in bio.
Apprenticeships offer more than job training. They Apprenticeships offer more than job training. They can create accessible pathways to career growth, economic mobility, and long-term workforce strength.

Join us for How Apprenticeship Programs Strengthen the Workforce, a Meeting the Moment conversation moderated by Dan Wuori and featuring leaders from Apprenticeship Carolina and Firefly Construction Group.

Friday, August 28 at 12pm EDT
Register on our website, at link in bio.
How can communities build stronger pathways from l How can communities build stronger pathways from learning to earning?

Our next Meeting the Moment webinar, moderated by Dan Wuori, will examine how apprenticeship programs help prepare workers for in-demand careers while supporting employers in building a skilled, resilient workforce.

Join us for a conversation with Amanda Richardson of @apprenticeship.carolina / SC Technical College System and Loyd Patterson of Firefly Construction Group.

Friday, August 28 at 12pm EST
Register at @saul_zaentz link in bio.
Join us for the next Meeting the Moment webinar: H Join us for the next Meeting the Moment webinar: How Apprenticeship Programs Strengthen the Workforce.

The conversation will explore how apprenticeship programs can create practical pathways into skilled careers, help employers meet workforce needs, and connect education, training, and opportunity.

Friday, August 28 at 12pm EDT
Register on the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation® website (at @saul_zaentz link in bio).
Charlie Barron, the first graduate of the Zaentz F Charlie Barron, the first graduate of the Zaentz Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Education, is bringing her learning directly back to children and families as a Head Start lead teacher.

Her story reflects the promise of investing in early childhood leaders who connect research, policy, classroom practice, and community impact.
You can't erase words from the Declaration of Inde You can't erase words from the Declaration of Independence. But at the @americanwritersmuseum in Chicago, you can remix them.

Inspired by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's erasure poem, the new exhibit Declarations: 250 Years of Writing Toward Independence hands you the pen, inviting you to reshape our founding document into something new. It's on view now through September 7 in the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation™ Mind of a Writer Gallery.

250 years in, the conversation is still going, and there's room for your voice.
Learn more in our newsletter, on our website at link in bio.
The people who built the technology your kids are The people who built the technology your kids are using every day? Many of them made very different choices for their own children.

Low screen time. Intentional limits. Keeping certain devices out of the house entirely.

@drdanasuskind point isn't to vilify tech; it's to pay attention to what the people closest to it actually do at home. Because we may not have all the science yet, but they seem to know something.

The bandwagon is real. The question is whose example you're actually following.

Watch more from Meeting the Moment on our YouTube page, at link in bio.

Learn more about Dr. Suskind's new book HUMAN RAISED: https://humanraised.org/
Tech companies have armies of engineers, billions Tech companies have armies of engineers, billions in research, and years of behavioral data — all aimed at keeping your kid's attention.

You have yourself.

@drdanasuskind calls it what it is: it's not a fair fight. But that doesn't mean parents are powerless. Her approach is simple: give yourself small, concrete choices to make before the meltdown happens. Before 6pm arrives. Before three months go by, you realize a screen has been running the show.

📺 Watch more from Meeting the Moment on our YouTube page, at link in bio.

📖 Learn more about Dr. Suskind's new book HUMAN RAISED at humanraised.org.
A machine can answer your child's question. It can A machine can answer your child's question. It can mirror their feelings. It can sound like it understands.

But @drdanasuskind names the one thing it will never do: care.

That gap, between simulating connection and actually caring about a child's future, is exactly what we can't afford to miss as AI moves into the nursery, the classroom, the playroom.
Because what's at stake isn't convenience. It's the potential (or the lost potential) of a child.

Watch more from Meeting the Moment on our YouTube page, at link in bio.
250 years ago, a handful of people busy with ordin 250 years ago, a handful of people busy with ordinary lives dared to imagine a different future, then wrote their way toward it.

This summer, the @americanwritersmuseum in Chicago marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with Declarations: 250 Years of Writing Toward Independence, an exhibit that treats our founding document not as a relic, but as an ideal still being written toward. We're proud to support the museum and the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation™ Mind of a Writer Gallery, where the exhibit lives.
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Harvey Milk, see how writers have taken up the 

Declaration's language and bent it toward a fuller promise. Then add your own voice.
Read more in our latest newsletter (on our website, at link in bio).
AI is flooding every part of a child's world and i AI is flooding every part of a child's world and it's arriving fastest in the years that shape the brain most.

Pediatric surgeon @drdanasuskind has spent her career studying what builds a child's mind. Her answer to the AI moment isn't panic. It's a question you can actually ask: does this technology enhance us, or replace us?

Watch the full recording of Meeting the Moment on our YouTube page, at link in bio.
Don’t miss this timely conversation with @drdanasu Don’t miss this timely conversation with @drdanasuskind, on June 25. 

Register for #MeetingTheMoment, hosted by @danwuori, on our website (at link in bio).

🗓️ Can't attend live? If you register, we'll email you the recording after June 25!
What does it look like when a college puts student What does it look like when a college puts student success and well-being at the center of everything it does?

At Fort Lewis College, it means creating opportunities for first-generation students, honoring the identities and experiences they bring, and ensuring they have the support they need to thrive.

We are proud to support this vision through the Saul Zaentz Thriving Scholars & Well-Being Program, a new initiative that will help students graduate with little or no debt while laying the groundwork for a centralized Student Well-Being Hub.

In our June newsletter, we share why @fortlewiscollege is a model for what higher education can be, and why we believe its story deserves a wider audience.
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