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Shifting mindsets about educating young children
Teaching young students requires more than just learning about child development (Samuelsson et al., 2005) — it requires understanding children and their experiences. As teacher educators, we have s..
Coaches shape early learning and beyond
In 2016-17, I spent many hours with the educators and staff of Boston Public Schools’ early childhood program, including the Eliot K-8 Innovation School in Boston’s historic North End neighborhood..
Texas district learns the building blocks of pre-K
Picture a noisy room full of elementary principals building towers with play dough, straws, and toothpicks while laughing, talking, and sharing ideas — and competitively checking the progress of oth..
Early learning and K-12 go hand in hand: A conversation with Iheoma Iruka
Early childhood and K-12 educators have a lot to learn from each other, Iheoma Iruka says. Iheoma Iruka is founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at Frank Porter Graham Child Dev..
Discipline needs an overhaul
Picture a 6-year-old child sobbing and pleading to stay at school while a police officer escorts her through the building and puts her into the back of his police car. That’s what a disturbing and h..
Nashville has a blueprint to address early literacy
Developing early reading skills is important for long-term academic success. Too often, however, young children do not have the foundations of literacy they need. One-third of Tennessee students re..
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Bilingual program builds a bridge to equity
If you were to walk through our international school campus, built on a verdant mountain overlooking Bogotá, Colombia, you would most likely hear our 1,800 students speaking a mix of English and Span..
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A path to early literacy
Why is it important for elementary students to practice phonemic awareness every day? Kindergarten students in Republic, Missouri, can explain the rationale to you. They restate the “why” behind t..
Nested coaching links learning from coach to teacher to leader
Keisha, an urban principal from California, and Jason, a principal from rural North Carolina, serve different communities, but they both realize that systemic inequities prevent students from fully re..
