First 10 Blog

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During the Maine First 10 Summer Institute, Partnership teams had the opportunity to share brief video highlights of the First 10 activities in their communities. Each video showed the ways in which communities have adapted and implemented First 10 activities. In this blog post, we highlight two videos that offer...

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...

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...

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.

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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...

Congrats to Nonie Lesaux! See the announcement here.

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Research shows that leadership is the second most important influence on student learning in schools. Further, as Steve Tozer points out, leadership is critical to improving the most important factor—teaching. It is hard to imagine...