- Louisa Anastasopoulos
At First 10, we share a goal that all children learn and thrive. Achieving that goal across schools, early childhood programs, and community agencies takes strong partnerships and effective strategies, but it also requires consistent reflection and a commitment to continuous improvement—an ongoing effort to improve a program or service...
- David Jacobson
Education Week’s Early Years blog has a helpful round-up of a wide range of media coverage of the Tennessee preschool study. A few choice excerpts: Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman, whose work on the return...
- David Jacobson
Eye on Early Education reports on Massachusetts’ new Social and Emotional Learning Standards: The standards explain: “As Preschool children enter group settings, they engage in a growing circle of deepening relationships with adults and peers...
- 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...