For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now Diving into the Data with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force Mark Swartz·Nov 21, 2022·4 min readHuman brains aren’t so good at planning ahead. Because we have a weird tendency to view our future selves as... Read More
“Like a Dream Become Reality”: Multnomah’s Preschool For All Effort Showcases Parent PowerElliot Haspel·Nov 9, 2020·5 min readIn this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal... Read More
Lost in the Policy Woods? Finding Your Way to Equity and Access with the Zaentz NavigatorMark Swartz·Dec 19, 2023·4 min readImagine you work for an advocacy organization in one state and you want to find out how other states are... Read More
What’s Missing in Early Childhood Education: A School District The established model works for K-12, so why is it missing in ECE? Rebecca Gale·Oct 28, 2021·7 min readNeighborhood Villages began with a goal: do for child care what the state already does for K-12. Organize it, regulate... Read More
Proposition R in St. Louis: Ballot Measure Creates First Public Funding Source for Education and Care for Children 0-5Bryce Covert·Dec 3, 2020·5 min readOn Election Day, voters in St. Louis, Missouri, didn’t just overwhelmingly vote for Joe Biden to be president, bucking the... Read More
Can Bipartisan Statewide Support for Early Education Become a National Trend?Tom Kertscher·Jun 20, 2019·4 min readLegislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed... Read More
Roots of Empathy: Where Children Learn the Language of Getting AlongK.C. Compton·May 21, 2020·9 min readAs founder of the groundbreaking Roots of Empathy program and author of the bestselling book by the same name, Mary... Read More
Las Vegas Takes Its Show on the Road to Provide Quality Pre-K to Childcare DesertsK.C. Compton·Dec 16, 2020·5 min readSoon after the city of Las Vegas made a substantial investment in early learning with its Strong Start Academies Pre-K... Read More
22Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care Case Study Available for Download K.C. Compton·Dec 12, 2022·9 min readOver a few nights in 2019, a radical change took place at New York’s renowned Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.... Read More
Playful Learning in Pittsburgh: The Park as ClassroomMark Swartz·Mar 24, 2021·3 min read“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief,” said August Wilson, playwright of the great “Pittsburgh Cycle.”... Read More
“What Brings Your Child Joy?” How Oregon Is Reinventing the Kindergarten TransitionMark Swartz·Aug 17, 2023·4 min readJust a few weeks after Oregon’s Department of Early Learning and Care broke off from the state’s Department of Education... Read More
This Book Is Cool! Program Fights the Summer Slide and the COVID-19 SlumpK.C. Compton·Sep 3, 2020·8 min readMost of us have heard of the “summer slide” in which children lose some of the lessons they’ve learned during... Read More