This October, as we celebrate Head Start Awareness Month, let’s take a moment to honor not only the program’s remarkable contributions to children ...
Posts by Bridget Hamre, PhD
Bridget Hamre, Ph.D. is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Teachstone. Dr. Hamre specializes in student-teacher relationships and classroom processes that promote positive academic and social development in young children. She has authored more than 65 peer-reviewed manuscripts on these topics in the past 15 years. Her research documents the ways in which educator-child relationships and teachers' social and instructional interactions support children's development and learning and may help close the opportunity gap for students at risk of school failure. Dr. Hamre is a co-author of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) and, in partnership with Dr. Robert Pianta, led early work to scale the use of CLASS as an assessment and professional development tool across the country. She collaborates with the Office of Head Start on their implementation of the CLASS as a part of the federal monitoring process and consults with numerous states on their Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. In all of this work, her goals have been to ensure the CLASS is used in ways that accurately assess children’s experiences in classrooms and that provide teachers with the feedback and support they need to best support the children in their classrooms. Dr. Hamre received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her master's degree and doctorate in clinical and school psychology from the University of Virginia.
On July 12, 2023, the Office of Head Start announced they will resume the use of CLASS® as a part of their monitoring system after a three-year ...
Again we face a morning heartbroken. The killing of young children and educators in Uvalde, Texas adds to the long list of senseless acts of murder ...
At Teachstone, we know that our work only succeeds if it is in partnership with you. So as we reflect on the significant challenges of 2020 and early ...
At Teachstone our mission is to help every child reach their full potential by measuring and improving the interactions that matter most. For the ...
Three years ago I watched as white men and women, dressed in white polo shirts and carrying guns, walked down my street in downtown Charlottesville, ...
Recently, I wrote about research showing us just how few children experience even “good enough” teaching from kindergarten to third grade. Only 4% of ...
Since I joined Teachstone as Chief Impact Officer a few months ago, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about opportunity gaps in education. In a ...
On August 1 I joined Teachstone as Chief Impact Officer. If my name sounds familiar, it may be because I am one of the authors of the CLASS and a ...
At this year’s InterAct Summit, Bridget Hamre delivered a powerful message during the opening keynote. We pulled out some of her key points into a ...