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Connecting Early Learning to Successful Grade School Experience

The Editors·October 2, 2018·1 min read

Connecting early childhood education to a successful elementary school experience means focusing on more than just the transition. It also requires "alignment." What's that? Read on... Read More

Teacher Focus: Survey Reveals Strengths, Challenges Facing Early Childhood Educators

The Editors·January 16, 2018·2 min read

Clearly, a central part of any well-run early childhood learning effort is the teacher, provider, or caregiver. And one way... Read More

700 Neuroconnections per Second: How Oregon WIC Adds Daily Brain Building Tips to Parent-Child Engagement

The Editors·January 2, 2018·1 min read

Oregon WIC is the state’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. This public health program is designed... Read More

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Recommendations for State Investment in Early Learning: Report

The Editors·November 27, 2018·3 min read

An Illinois report offers recommendations around transforming the early childhood workforce. Read More

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Mobilizing Communities So All Children Make the Grade

Pop Up Neighbor events, community, collaboration, mobilization

The Editors·August 8, 2019·9 min read

Even without advance promotion, when word got out that the SuperMatt Laundromat in Sarasota, Florida, was offering free laundry all day, neighborhood residents formed a steady stream of customers. Not only was laundry-and-all-the-fixings free—a boon to low-income families who can ill afford the $35 to $50 a week they spend trying to keep their kids in clean clothes—the food bank was there with abundant food to restock their pantries. Best of all, there were books—lots of books—and plenty of volunteers to read to children while the adults did as many loads of laundry as needed. When the children left, books went home with them. Read More

Helping Any Parent Become a ‘Brain Builder’: Save the Children and Vroom

The Editors·January 9, 2018·2 min read

Direct and regular parental or caregiver interaction with children is central to many areas of development. A new partnership between... Read More

Little Peepers Forest Preschool: Learning the World Just Outside the Doorway

The Editors·December 3, 2019·7 min read

Most U.S. schoolchildren know more about the Amazon rain forest than the ground beneath their feet and more about penguins... Read More

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Winners Announced for PCI’s First Prenatal-to-Age-Three Grant Competition

The Editors·July 10, 2019·3 min read

When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45... Read More

A woman reads a book outdoors with a small boy who has paint and dirt on his face.

Tiny Trees Preschoolers Get to Know Their World, Rain or Shine

The Editors·August 30, 2019·3 min read

The children attending Tiny Trees Preschool classrooms in Seattle and King County parks may look like they’re “just playing,” but those little boots are actually marching, climbing, stomping and squishing their way to a well-rounded preschool education. Read More