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In what ways are your own schools engaging parents, families, and caregivers as allies to the teachers and staff in the buildings to support great learning for young people? #education #learning #schools #teachers #parents #families

Quality early childhood education is the key to unlocking a child's potential, and bridging the gap between their dreams and reality. 🌻 When we nurture young minds today, we empower them to become the architects and shapers of a better world 🌍 they will inherit. Always remember that the future of the world is in your classroom.🥰🤩 #earlychildhoodeducation #earlychildhoodeducationandcare #empoweringchildren #patienceosinaike #earlychildhoodeducator

Like many states, Texas continues to debate vouchers as a path to greater choice for families. This binary approach - public vs. private - only creates greater inequities. What if instead students and families worked alongside their schools to co-design a model that met their needs, inspired by innovative approaches happening across the country? Check out this OpEd that describes how community-based design can serve as alternative to the ESA/voucher debate. https://lnkd.in/gG7Qupfp

This new report from the team at Start Early provides a valuable look at strategies used by six school districts across the county to ensure that young children with developmental delays and disabilities are served in inclusive early care and education (ECE) settings to play and learn alongside their friends with and without disabilities. Currently only 42% (2 in 5) young children with an individualized Education Program (IEP) are served in a inclusive ECE setting. This new report, along with the recent strong federal Policy Statement: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs https://lnkd.in/gXj_wZgi that utilizes the National Indicators of High-Quality Inclusion https://lnkd.in/eydt7k4R provide a path forward toward inclusion for ALL. The report highlights Atlanta Public Schools and their goal to transition all preschool children with IEPs from self-contained (segregated) classrooms to inclusive classrooms within one year. The U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) needs to hold all states (and in turn school districts) accountable to make meaningful increases in the percentage of preschool age children with IEPs served inclusive ECE settings. #inclusion #inclusionforall #ECSE #earlyintervention

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 🌍 Share your views on early childhood education through this survey! 📚✏️ Your feedback is invaluable to our research study! ✨ #EarlyEducation #ChildEducation #PreSchool #KinderGarten #Survey https://lnkd.in/gCqRzed7

Early childhood education has emerged as a pivotal point in child development. Science and research have established that this phase in a child’s life is a foundational period that significantly shapes a child’s potential for lifelong learning, health and overall development. In the latest Learning by Design Magazine issue, RDG's Edward Buglewicz, AIA and Molly Haas, AIA share why these facilities are essential and how designing to integrate education and community engagement enhances the learning experience for children while fostering stronger community connections and support. https://lnkd.in/gHEyaryy

At the #CenterforEarlyLearning at Purdue we like to say that #GiantLeaps start with little feet because the early years are so crucial to children’s long-term success. Help us advance the Research, Practice, and Policy mission of the center in this #PurdueDayofGiving by supporting CEL: https://lnkd.in/g_gdfQA3 No gift is too small to help make #TheNextGiantLeap in early childhood education research!

Blueprint Labs has the opportunity to present at #SXSWEDU, but we need your help! Vote online to see Blueprint’s three panel discussions on stage at #SXSWEDU 2025.   Learn more about each session and cast your votes at the following links:   – Session 1: Growing High-Quality ECE Nationwide through Evidence   As preschool expands, parents and policymakers hope to better understand its practices and long-term effects. A Blueprint researcher will facilitate a discussion with our district partners about how research can guide Early Childhood Education policy decisions.   🗳 Vote here: https://lnkd.in/dUMTmx3s – Session 2: Opportunities in the Charter Space & the Role of Research   Many pressing questions persist in the charter school space: How do charters affect long-term outcomes? Which charter practices are most effective? In this panel discussion, leading charter practitioners and a Blueprint researcher will address these questions and more.   🗳 Vote here: https://lnkd.in/dDgYi-uV – Session 3: Centering Equity Amid Declining Enrollment   Enrollment in public schools is rapidly declining: 1.2 million fewer students enrolled in public schools in the 2022-23 school year than pre-pandemic. In this session, Blueprint School Access and Quality Fellows from some of the nation’s largest school districts will discuss their challenges and strategies for addressing declining enrollment.   🗳 Vote here: https://lnkd.in/dA4rxi8v

Flourish & Survive: a new blog from KindEducational Post#31: Pastures few UPDATED The sadness of silent play spaces: You will have seen it in the news this week: state school kids have far less access to open and green spaces than their better off peers. Health and wellbeing impacted. Beleaguered headteachers forced to organise play in community parks. And even where there is space, sometimes in abundance, coverage of a stuffed curriculum provides the other half of the grim pedipalp in a movement that sees school fields and forest school tree circles, along with gymnasiums (where they still exist), as the least used teaching spaces outside of a child’s mandated 120 minutes of physical education each week. We are only in this situation because we have allowed a poisoned and partial paradigm to lead us down, out and away from what we know is really needed. Not so free schools: but we are so far down the road now that some children are actually attending schools that have no access to outdoor space, let alone any green and pleasant lands. And these are new schools proposed, designed, planned and approved to meet the needs to the children attending and the community being served. New schools designed to realise powerful visions of a better future for our young people. New schools that consciously encapsulate the very best provision to enable all those involved to flourish. New schools, that for some reason, have no outdoor space. Why did we let this happen? Read on here:

Ready, set, engage! The #TDSB's Parent Involvement Advisory Committee's annual conference returns on February 3: - Learn more about school councils - Connect with other parents/guardians/caregivers - Gain insights from experts