- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
What Is Playful Learning and Why Does It Matter? Research shows that play is critical to children’s development and learning, especially throughout their early childhood years. Unfortunately, play has gradually been pushed out of classrooms to make time for more teacher-directed learning experiences. Playful learning is often described as having...
- David Jacobson
So exclaimed Libby Doggett, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning at the US Department of Education. Doggett discussed the Birth—3rd movement at the recent District Leadership Summit in Chicago organized by the...
- David Jacobson
As I’ve mentioned before, Strategies for Children and I are both supporting New Bedford’s Birth–3rd Alignment Partnership. See this Eye on Early Education post on New Bedford’s work to improve social and emotional skill development...
- David Jacobson
Check out the growing list of resources on the Too Small to Fail website, including the Talking is Teaching Community Campaign Guide.
...- David Jacobson
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
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...
- David Jacobson
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...