- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
Two-way communication and developing family leadership skills are two powerful strategies to engage families. In September, our First 10 Network Meeting focused on starting the year off right with families by offering strategies on effective communication and family leadership development. First 10 facilitators, Maria Katradis and Jenny Portillo-Nacu, led the...
- David Jacobson
Marva Hinton of Education Week writes: “Sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between educators who work with children prior to elementary school and those who teach in the early grades, but new survey results...
- David Jacobson
- David Jacobson
Important new research out of the University of Virginia. Provides additional support for P-3 approaches. The New America Foundation has a nice summary blog post. A few excerpts: “In a new study out of the...
- David Jacobson
The National P-3 Center is launching a new publication series, Framework in Action. Each brief in this helpful new series includes a short digest of the research, suggested starting points, common implementation pitfalls, indicators of...
- David Jacobson
“It’s a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur when parents read to their children. A new study provides evidence of just how...
- David Jacobson
“Yet as is so often the case, the reality is much different from what the political rhetoric says. The United States has the weakest safety net among the Western industrialized nations, devoting far fewer resources...