- 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
- July 29, 2014
Be sure not to miss this important policy brief from the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation: Beyond Subprime Learning: Accelerating Progress in Early Education. The report presents a vision for early education (on page...
- David Jacobson
- July 22, 2014
The Executive Office of Education has created a new website: Building the Foundation for College and Career Success for Children from Birth through Grade 3. According to the announcement, We designed this website to achieve two...
- David Jacobson
- July 15, 2014
See The Early Learning Assessment Literacy Challenge at New America EdCentral for an article on the effective use of assessments in early childhood education. The article includes a number of embedded links to useful guidance documents, including Early...
- David Jacobson
- July 8, 2014
Strategies for Children (SFC) has released a new brief describing the work of the Massachusetts Third Grade Reading Proficiency Learning Network: Changing the Trajectory: Communities Take Action to Increase Reading Proficiency. SFC convened a group...
- David Jacobson
- July 1, 2014
For an external perspective on the aim and approach of the Birth-Third Learning Hub, check out Strategies for Children’s post, A New Early Education Blog, on Eye on Early Education.
...- David Jacobson
- June 23, 2014
Tufts intern Jess Petraglia has compiled an impressive booklet documenting the learning of Somerville’s Kindergarten Readiness Group over the last 18 months: Somerville Kindergarten Readiness Booklet_2013-14. The Kindergarten Readiness Group is a professional learning community of...