- Leana Nordstrom
For many families, kindergarten is when the gaps among the systems supporting a young child become impossible to ignore. By then, children may already have relationships with early childhood educators, health providers, libraries, and other community organizations. When those institutions are not connected, families may have to start over, educators...
- David Jacobson
The renowned Harvard Family Research Project has developed a new resource that is available to the public, The Create Your Case Toolkit. This toolkit builds on the Harvard Family Research Project’s extensive work on Family...
- David Jacobson
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) is sponsoring Getting It Right for Children: Early Educators Leadership Institute, a series of four full-day workshops that begins in late February. The EEC has contracted...
- David Jacobson
Also don’t miss the helpful collection of articles in Education Week’s 2015 edition of Quality Counts, which focuses on early childhood education.
...- David Jacobson
Don’t miss the recent article in Commonwealth Magazine by Chris Martes, president and CEO of Strategies for Children: “A Chance to Lead on Early Education.” As Martes says, From the White House to business boardrooms...
- David Jacobson
Are some teams “smarter” than others? Researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon say yes. They have found three characteristics that distinguish smarter teams. You may be surprised by the results, which make a strong case...
- David Jacobson
The White House has released a Playbook for Becoming an Early Learning Community in conjunction with its recent Summit on Early Education. The Playbook outlines 7 steps, each with a number of recommended strategies and...