- Jenny Portillo-Nacu
During the Maine First 10 Summer Institute, Partnership teams had the opportunity to share brief video highlights of the First 10 activities in their communities. Each video showed the ways in which communities have adapted and implemented First 10 activities. In this blog post, we highlight two videos that offer...
- David Jacobson
“Few conversations focus on improving early elementary years, the linchpin of the pre-K-to-12 education system.” A good article on an important component of the Birth-Third Agenda by Laura Bornfreund of the New America Foundation’s Early...
- David Jacobson
From Kristie Kauerz, Director of the National P-3 Center at the University of Washington. Please let me know if anyone would be interested in organizing a Massachusetts delegation. Applications are now open for the October...
- David Jacobson
This week I’m posting short bulleted summaries of the core strategies of the first five EEC alignment partnerships, an idea prompted by a helpful conversation with Titus DosRemedios of Strategies for Children last week at...
- David Jacobson
Congratulations to the twelve communities that recently received Birth-Third Alignment Partnership grants from the Department of Early Education and Care. Momentum around Birth-Third continues to grow in Massachusetts, and we are expanding the...
- David Jacobson
A critical step in improving teaching and learning in the early elementary grades is developing an effective, coherent curriculum. To support districts in aligning curriculum to the 2011 Common Core-aligned frameworks, the Department of Elementary...
- David Jacobson
My colleague Renee Perdue and I are leading a Curriculum Mapping Institute tomorrow (Tuesday) for the MA ESE and the Readiness Centers. See the Massachusetts Curriculum Alignment and Mapping Project for a variety of resources...