Including Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care in California’s Vision for Early Childhood Reform
At its best, FFN care can be child-centered, familial, and flexible. But it can also be fraught if providers don't have enough support.
Early Childhood Education
Highlights from the Kindergarten Exodus Webinar
In a September webinar, four superintendents discussed the pandemic's impact on kindergarten students and their families.
True Mixed Delivery Pre-K Includes Family Child Care Providers — But How?
There are multiple reasons FCC participation in pre-K remains rare and why incorporating FCC into these systems will be challenging.
Addressing Parents’ Hopes and Fears for This School Year
Focus Group Findings Highlight Importance of Providing Smooth Transition Back to School
Federal Investment in Early Education is on the Horizon. Here Are Our Questions.
This may be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for comprehensive investment in our nation’s young children.
Early Childhood Educators Hungry for Strategies to Support State’s Growing Population of Multilingual Children
A new report offers insight on how to provide continual development opportunities for teachers in dual language classrooms in California.
Addressing Chronic Early Absence: A Critical Component of COVID-19 Recovery
Chang and Wiener explain why addressing challenges to attendance is so important and offer some potential solutions and resources.
Federal and State Policy Recommendations to Improve Outdoor Learning in Child Care
Investing in outdoor learning improves child care quality, supports the early childhood workforce, and enhances health equity
Back to School in a Pandemic: How Oakland Unified is Supporting Kindergarteners
Oakland Unified's work to improve pre-K to kindergarten transitions is more important now than ever.
Challenges in Returning to School Are Real, But Not Insurmountable
New Transition Toolkit Highlights Steps States and Districts Can Take to Address Challenges
New Study Points to Early Childhood Mental Health Consultations as an Important Tool for Addressing Challenging Behavior
Children showed statistically significant improvement in their social and emotional skills after the mental health consultations took place
Q&A with Dana Suskind and John List on Why Some Early Childhood Interventions Lose Impact at Scale
The science of scaling-up model early childhood education programs for population-level benefits
Valuing Family Child Care Providers: Supporting Organizing, Empowerment, and Prosperity
Family child care providers have been organizing for decades, but it has been difficult to secure collective bargaining rights
Study of Louisiana’s Unique QRIS Suggests Improvements in Early Ed Quality
This study suggests that Louisiana's targeted investments in quality, focused on teacher-child interactions, were impactful.