Aurora Institute

Courtney: We are so excited to talk with you here at the Aurora Institute. So, would you share for our listeners a little bit about who you are and what you do, and what brings you to the Aurora Institute this here?

Gisele: I’ve been with the Raikes Foundation for about a year and a half. I lead the K-12 school and system redesign portfolio of giving. The reason I’m here is we invest in and partner with leading researchers, practitioners, educators, intermediaries, but primarily districts increasingly, to advance a new set of goals that are rooted in what we know from the science of learning and development about what’s required for all young people to thrive and the skill, will, and resources that adults need to bring to bear in order to create the conditions for young people to thrive. And so sharing that message and supporting others to increasingly think about what that means for their work and how they support schools and districts around the country...