- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
- November 5, 2024
Improved levels of academic achievement and healthy social-emotional development for students are among the many benefits of strong family-school partnerships. At the October First 10 Network Meeting, EDC’s Jenny Portillo-Nacu, Senior Team Facilitator for First 10, and Kristen Reed, Managing Director for Young Mathematicians, led a presentation on building strong...
- David Jacobson
- April 9, 2015
Check out the growing list of resources on the Too Small to Fail website, including the Talking is Teaching Community Campaign Guide.
...- David Jacobson
- April 9, 2015
For an introduction to the important new report, Transforming the Workforce For Children Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation, see this post by Lisa Guernsey, who served on the report’s committee. From Guernsey’s post:...
- David Jacobson
- March 26, 2015
The Ounce of Prevention Fund (“the Ounce”) has organized a Leadership Summit on the role of districts in Birth through 3rd Grade efforts in Chicago this week. More on the Summit to come, but as a start I’d like...
- David Jacobson
- March 14, 2015
The New Bedford Birth–3rd Leadership Alignment Team has chosen to focus its work on three strategies: 1) improving transitions, 2) aligned and collaborative professional development for community-based and district early childhood teachers focused on social-emotional...
- David Jacobson
- March 4, 2015
The Ounce of Prevention Fund is holding a summit on March 25-26, Excellence in the Early Grades: District Leadership Summit. Senior district leaders (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, and directors of instruction) are invited to attend. Registration, accommodations,...
- David Jacobson
- February 17, 2015
The Massachusetts team that participated in the National Governors Association early learning policy academy reports several new developments: The Boards of the Department of Early Education and Care and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...