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The Cooney Center team was honored to collaborate with our colleagues at Sesame Workshop to produce —and participate— in some panels at ASU+GSV that were full of rich insights into timely issues around early childhood, innovation, and equity. We’re grateful to all of our friends and partners who participated in our sessions and shared their expertise, and to the team at ASU+GSV for their partnership— and for these videos! If you weren’t able to attend the conference in person, you…

Since the pandemic began, we’ve witnessed unprecedented changes in how we work and live, changes that have had a tremendous influence on the early childhood space. We’ve seen a country at war with an unrelenting virus, tremendous economic hardship, an overdue reckoning with racism and discrimination; we’ve seen the disruption of child care services and school, and we’ve seen so much of what we had taken for granted become much more difficult and time-consuming. We’ve also seen tremendous room for…

On November 19th, I covered the biannual Social Innovation Summit held in San Francisco for the Cooney Center and my colleagues at the Disruptor Foundation.  The summit brought together over 1,000 leaders interested in identifying, exploring, and actualizing partnership opportunities across the Business, Technology and Community sectors. I came to the conference eager to learn more about the future of game-based learning (GBL) and its potential to effectively engage students, boost their learning outcomes and put them on a path…