- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
The last First 10 Network Meeting of the 2024-2025 school was held in May. This session focused on sharing fresh ideas and practical materials to help First 10 Partnerships engage with families and support young children in their communities this summer. During the session, participants learned about the exciting initiatives...
- David Jacobson
Carol Dweck, renowned Stanford professor and author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” offers important advice about the hard work of promoting growth mindsets. Be sure to see her discussion of the growth mindset...
- David Jacobson
In a word, quality. “Tennessee doesn’t have a coherent vision,” Dale Farran, a Vanderbilt professor and the Tennessee study’s co-author, told me. “Left to their own devices, each teacher is inventing pre-K on her own.”...
- David Jacobson
The Build Initiative has published a large collection of resources to guide community system-building efforts. The Community Systems Development Toolkit supports the hands-on implementation of collaborative systems work at the local level, providing resource tools...
- David Jacobson
A new study shows that kindergarten teachers’ ratings of social competence strongly predict important adult outcomes. The study has received much attention in the popular press, including a number of thoughtful reactions: The gist from...
- David Jacobson
The Preschool Matters blog at NIERR launched a new leadership forum yesterday with Birth–3rd and Leadership: Steve Tozer’s Message to the Birth–3rd Community. Stay tuned for future installments.
...- David Jacobson
The Build Initiative has published a report on the impact of the US DOE’s Race to the Top–Early Learning Challenge (ELC) in states around the country. The report, “P-3 Reform in Vision and Practice,” was...