Want to Run a Better Meeting?
Birth-3rd is about all manner of collaboration, and most collaboration requires meetings of one kind or another. Kathryn Parker Boudett and Elizabeth City of Data Wise fame have a new book, Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators. Check out this audio interview with the authors at Harvard’s Usable Knowledge website.
Revised Foundational Competencies and Essential Experiences, Birth-3rd
Massachusetts has issued a revised version of its Foundational Competencies and Essential Experiences document and is seeking feedback by the end of this week. From the website: Massachusetts has embarked on an exciting journey – the development of a comprehensive birth through grade 3 policy agenda – that will result in the implementation of innovative…
CAYL Institute’s 10th Anniversary and Related Resources
Congratulations to Dr. Valora Washington and the CAYL Institute on its 10th anniversary. Its community of practice now includes over 600 fellows. I attended the anniversary celebration a couple of weeks ago, where the strength of its fellows network was very much in evidence. See the summaries of the keynote speakers comments in the newsletter below. In addition to links in the newsletter to MassBudget’s Children’s Budget site and the Subprime Learning reports, see these resources from MassBudget and the New America Foundation:
Building a Foundation for Success (MassBudget)
Report Finds Limited Support for Early Ed in School Turnarounds (New America Foundation)
School Year Begins, States Enhance PreK-3rd Continuum with Race to the Top Funds (New America Foundation)
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Expanding Prekindergarten, Not Forgetting Kindergarten
Is New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio’s method for expanding Pre-K a model for other cities? Six experts’ views on the implications of NYC’s PreK expansion for other cities. The View from 3 Feet 4 year-old experts talk about the value of preschool in this video, a project of the Massachusetts-based Schott Foundation’s National…
School Turnaround and Early Learning: New SIG Regulations
The New America Foundation’s EdCentral provides a helpful summary: New SIG Regulations Ramp up Focus on Early Education
The Way to Beat Poverty (Kristof and WuDunn)
Commentary from the Sunday New York Times: One reason the United States has not made more progress against poverty is that our interventions come too late. If there’s one overarching lesson from the past few decades of research about how to break the cycles of poverty in the United States, it’s the power of parenting…
Parent-Child Home Program in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about the Parent-Child Home program, which operates in many communities in Massachusetts. For all the energy poured into [New York City’s] preschool expansion, some researchers and early-childhood advocates say that the most at-risk children need help with literacy much earlier than pre-K. While skeptics question whether these…
In Case You Missed It in August …
For those of you who were perhaps enjoying the last weeks of summer and may have missed it in August, here are links to a three-part series I wrote on the experiences of two community-based preschool teachers implementing a new curriculum. Teaching a New Curriculum in East Boston (Boston K1DS at the East Boston YMCA #1) How does…
Preschool Development Grants
Welcome back from the long weekend and best wishes for the 2014-15 academic year. In case you missed it in August, the New America Foundation’s Early Education blog provides a good summary of the new Preschool Development Grants announced by the federal government.
Two-Generation Programs 2.0
The current issue of the Future of Children is on “Helping Parents, Helping Children: Two-Generation Mechanisms.” As the editors say in the introduction, “The two-generation model is based on the assumption that serving parents and children simultaneously with high-quality intervention programs would be more effective (and perhaps more efficient) than serving them individually.” See in particular the article…