Early Childhood Leadership Resources

When students reach high school math, play typically disappears from the curriculum. It doesn't have to.

Universal PreKindergarten Partnership GuidebookResources to create a common understanding of UPK and facilitate essential partnerships between family...

Michigan’s PreK for All plan provides access to free prekindergarten education to all four-year-olds by 2027.

California’s Transitional Kindergarten: Lessons Learned

By Anna Powell, Brandy Jones Lawrence and Wanzi Muruvi

Resources to support our Monterey County LEAs and community based organizations learn more about UPK and P3 Alignment.

As there are conversations that are taking place between Early Childhood and TK-12 systems, it has been quite obvious that we may be speaking the same concepts with different languages. This document was created to capture the nuances of our educational fields in one spot and can be used to help

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Racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse classrooms are beneficial for young students, yet early childhood programs can be more segregated than elementary and high schools. Research offers five policy strategies to promote diverse early learning settings.

California is making a significant investment (estimated at $3 billion per year) in early childhood education by requiring school districts to offer transitional kindergarten (TK) to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year. This investment is crucial—research has shown that there can be many wide-ranging and long-term positive impacts of high-quality early education on student outcomes. Such outcomes, however, depend a great deal on program design. It is thus critical for us to have good data so that we can understand the effects and effectiveness of TK at both the state and district level

Child care is an essential element of our social infrastructure that supports child development, family financial stability, and economic growth. But structural racism and sexism have led to the underinvestment and undervaluation of child care in the United States. This brief, published with the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, offers a new, anti-racist vision […]

Early educators are the best spokespeople about their working conditions and what they need to thrive. Policy leaders have much to gain by actively engaging

These professionals provide essential services, but their pay and working conditions do not reflect their value, and their health suffers.

A new episode of Education Now features experts discussing how "early relational health" impacts children and caregivers. 

UPK TA Tool

The Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (DREME) Network, in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, hosted a conference on May 3, 2024, celebrating the progress made in the last decade in research and practice around early math teaching and learning.

Penalties for districts that accelerated implementation of transitional kindergarten should be waived.

The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) has released the PreK for All Roadmap plan with recommendations on how the state can achieve universal pre-K for all 4-year-olds in Michigan.

Resources Dual Language Learners (DLLs) are children whose first language is a language other than English or children who are developing two or more languages, one of which may be English. To tailor services effectively for these students, California State Preschool Programs (CSPPs) are required...

NIEER conducts academic research to inform policy supporting high-quality, early education for all young children.

The Indigenous concept of relationality means that nothing is objective or alone. All things are in interaction with one another, including humans and the natural world. This contrasts to human exceptionalism, as practiced in many Western and/or capitalist societies, which separates humans from...

Pre-kindergarten students do not learn in the same ways that older elementary students do. Here are five ways education leaders can incorporate research-based developmentally appropriate practice into public pre-kindergarten expansions.

The US Department of Education’s vision is that all infants and toddlers with delays or disabilities receive high-quality early intervention services and supports as early as possible to empower them to thrive and meet their and their family’s individualized needs.