The Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research & Thrively Announce Learning Partnership

FRESNO, Calif., March 5, 2021 – The Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR) and Thrively are excited to announce a collaborative partnership to extend the impact of CLEAR’s equity through leadership and research resources to the community of Thrively learners.

This partnership will provide CLEAR’s Social Justice and Cultural Proficiency professional development curriculum through the Thrively learning platform and resources. CLEAR expects to provide materials and activity content by the Spring of 2021.

Through this collaboration, Thrively is dedicated to supporting CLEAR’s professional and leadership development efforts by bringing impactful professional development programs to the Thrively learning platform in support of a blended learning environment. CLEAR is committed to building capacity for educational equity by supporting efforts to develop transformative leaders who know how to change Pre-K-12 learning systems…not just improve them.

“A sense of belonging and well-being are crucial for academic, personal, and social student success,” said Dr. Ken Magdaleno, Founder and CEO of CLEAR. “We are dedicated to developing strong and committed social justice leaders, creating support networks for them, and assuring an ongoing individual and organizational commitment leading to greater opportunities for all.”

“The CLEAR partnership enhances Thrively’s capabilities to develop the whole child by offering cultural proficiency and social justice learning opportunities integrated into the interdisciplinary strengths-based online platform,” said Mr. Girish Venkat, Founder and CEO of Thrively. “This will certainly help in bridging the learning gap, developing student agency, and enabling learners to acquire skills for success.”

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About the Center for Leadership, Equity and Research

The Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR) is dedicated to eliminating educational and social disparities which impede equitable opportunities and outcomes for all students and the communities from which they arrive. This includes advocacy by its leadership which is called upon to intentionally amplify a collective voice of educational leaders and allies through a forum of professional learning, political action, and community empowerment.

About Thrively

Thrively is a strengths-based personalized learning platform that develops the whole child.  With Thrively, students get to discover their strengths and interests, build real life skills, get exposed to authentic/deeper learning experience and develop their agency and voice. Thrively gives educators a 360-degree view of the whole child and enables students to direct their own learning through the lens of their interests and strengths. Thousands of educators are using the Thrively platform to support various initiatives including Personalized Learning, SEL, Career Readiness, SPED, Passion Projects, Project Based Learning, Digital Portfolio of a Graduate and others.

Contact

Dr. Ken Magdaleno, Founder and CEO of CLEAR
kmagdaleno@clearvoz.com
559.346.8728

Contact

Girish Venkat, Founder and CEO, Thrively
girish@thrively.com
310.266.0494

Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021

Good day Everyone,
I am pleased and honored to share that the most recent edition of the Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research (JLER), is now available for your reading pleasure. Thanks to the efforts of Managing Editor Dr. Mahmoud Suleiman of California State University, Bakersfield, Editor-at-large Dr. Gilberto Conchas from Penn State University and Journal Technical Assistant Ms. Jenny Baquera of the Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR) the Journal of Leadership, Equity and Research has been accepted as an Indexed Journal by ERIC – Education Resources Information Center. The fact that we are now indexed is considered a reflection of journal quality and as Executive Editor of JLER I am pleased to share this edition with you. 
Stay Strong in Social Justice,
Ken

Read the edition at: https://journals.sfu.ca/cvj/index.php/cvj/issue/view/17

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021

Today it is important to remember Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a dream.” In this current political nightmare we who are social activists must not give up hope. We have much work to do https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

2021 Organizational Updates

The Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR) will celebrate our 10th anniversary this year. I have a great deal of pride in the fact that we have maintained our belief system and integrity as Social Justice Leaders since our inception. This occurs because of and as a result of understanding that an organization is only as good as the people in it. Such is the reality of the Center for Leadership, Equity and Research (CLEAR). As Founder and CEO of CLEAR I am pleased to share ongoing and future development with a fine group of people and want to begin this special year by acknowledging them and their efforts on our behalf: 

• The names and positions of our Board of Directors, some who have been with CLEAR for a number of years, can be found by following this link http://clearvoz.com/board-members/
• Our leadership team, so vital to the work we do can be found by following this link: http://clearvoz.com/leadership-team/
• We are very proud of the Professional Development CLEAR is currently providing and which is available to school districts, higher education, and community organizations. This Program is developed by Dr. Peter Flores, our Director of Equity. You can learn more by visiting: http://clearvoz.com/our-work/equity/
• Our research team, led by Dr. Mahmoud Suleiman of CSU Bakersfield and vital to both P-12 and Higher Education can only be described as “determined and persistent.” No one deserves more credit, and yet is likely not to accept it, than Dr. Suleiman. The Journal of Leadership, Equity and Research (JLER) would not exist if not for his efforts. I am also pleased to acknowledge Dr. Gil Conchas, now at Penn State, for his work on behalf of the Chicano/LatinX community and publication of a JLER Special Editions which will soon be added to our publication section. You may learn more about our Research strand by visiting: http://clearvoz.com/our-work/research/journal/
• As Founder/CEO, I have the good fortune of continuing as mentor for the Leadership Strand of CLEAR. A list of Cohort 9 of our Social Justice Leadership Mentoring Program participants and information regarding the program may be found by following this link: http://clearvoz.com/clear-social-justice-leadership-mentoring-program-cohort-9/

Should you like to become a member of CLEAR please follow this link: http://clearvoz.com/clear-membership/ If you desire more information on CLEAR, what we do, and how you might participate, please contact us.

Stay Strong in Social Justice,

Dr. Ken Magdaleno
Founder/CEO

UCLA WSLA | Transformative Voices: Educators for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Dr. Kenneth R. Magdaleno recently participated in a presentation with the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and the UCLA Women’s School Leadership Academy (WSLA). The presentation is titled A Series of Conversations: Transformative Voices | Educators for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion