This webinar provides a platform for discussing the identity of the early childhood workforce and how this impacts
on early childhood policies and practices and the recognition of the early childhood profession.
Join us at this members - only event and build your advocacy skills, expand your networks, and advance federal and
state early childhood policy.
Since 2003, we've successfully advocated for
groundbreaking early childhood policies, from creating transitional kindergarten to securing the funding necessary to improve early learning programs.
This position has lead responsibility for the coordination
of early childhood policy and administration across the multiple state agencies that fund or administer early childhood programs.
He also leads the team's state child care policy work, providing state legislators, advocates, and administrators with technical assistance, research, and testimony
on early childhood policy.
If you answered yes to the first questions but no to the second, then you may be missing out on one of the most significant opportunities to
improve early childhood policy.
Through this grant, the state is directing substantial resources to support three
early childhood policy priorities: high - quality early learning environments, family support, and access to data.
Kai - leé has focused her work on building the professionalism of the early childhood workforce, advocating for fair wages and working closely
with early childhood policy organizations to ensure that early educators are respected for the critical role they play in the lives of young children and their families.
From Project Thrive (Issue Brief No. 2), Reducing Maternal Depression and Its Impact on Young Children Toward a Responsive
Early Childhood Policy Framework by Jane Knitzer, Suzanne Theberge, and Kay Johnson (January 2008) is an article on maternal depression and its impact on young children's healthy development and school readiness.
Edited by Senior Fellow Ron Haskins and W. Steven Barnett of Rutgers University, Investing in Young Children: New Directions in Federal Preschool and
Early Childhood Policy focuses on Early Head Start, Head Start, and home visiting programs.
Professor Shonkoff's example as someone who is passionate about improving
early childhood policy through clear and responsible communication of scientific findings serves as a model of the professional I want to become.
«At the highest level, early childhood is really moving into the spotlight,» said Katharine Stevens, a resident scholar and
early childhood policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
She earned a M.A. in International Educational Development (IED) with a minor in
Early Childhood Policy from Columbia University's Teachers College, and received a B.A. in Early Childhood Education from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
GG Weisenfeld works at NIEER on the Yearbook and preparing state pre-K reports and as an education consultant researching and offering technical assistance on designing and
implementing early childhood policies and programs.
Health Transformation and Health Equity: This webinar addressed
what early childhood policy leaders and practitioners can do to focus greater attention on young children.
Additionally, in August 2006 former Governor Kaine established the Governor's Working Group on Early Childhood Initiatives, which brings together public and private partners to coordinate executive
branch early childhood policy and programs.
The goal of the New
Mexico Early Childhood Policy Platform is to give every child a great start in life so that they will thrive and succeed in school and in their lives.
«Regular visits by caring, experienced professionals and trained peers can help parents turn their good intentions into good, solid parenting and coping skills,» said Karen Howard, vice president
of early childhood policy at First Focus and co-convener of the Home Visiting Coalition.
The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (Council) and the National Forum
on Early Childhood Policy and Programs (Forum) work collaboratively in this effort to build a strong foundation of scientific knowledge to inform all aspects of the work.
The
State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network and the Build Initiative have recommended that a governance structure have five attributes:
Kerry McCuaig is the Atkinson fellow
in early childhood policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario.
Through this grant, the state is directing substantial resources to support
several early childhood policy priorities: Innovation Grants, Early Learning Guidelines, Career Lattices and Family Support.
She served as
the early childhood policy director for the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, and played an instrumental role in the development and successful passage of early childhood legislation in 2006 that established a $ 60 million early childhood endowment, funded through a public and private partnership.