We all know that coaches and teachers have many time constraints when working to provide high quality care for young children. We designed ...
Posts by Vicki Kintner-Duffy
vicki.kintner-duffy[at]teachstone.com
Vicki started her education career as a preschool teacher in Shreveport, Louisiana before attending graduate school in North Carolina. Her research focused on supporting educators through teacher education and professional development. Vicki has been at Teachstone for 12 years in a variety of roles: coach, trainer, project manager, and now as the Senior Research & Evaluation Specialist. Her latest projects have been writing and validating CLASS 2nd Edition tools so that all educators and children are better represented in and receiving effective interactions.
I have another rant. Last time I focused on how adults underestimate children’s cognitive skills. This time, I'd like to talk about how adults tend ...
I confess. I let my daughter watch TV. This is my 2-year old glued to (part of) an episode of Mr. Rogers (or as she calls him, Ra-Ra).
We’ve all been there—the spring semester is looming. Although you have the gist of the syllabus planned, the details still need to be worked out. ...
I have a rant. But before I rant, let me tell you a story. A little after my daughter’s first birthday, she was playing with a small, elephant pull ...
...even though today's teachers are trained to be sensitive to "social-emotional development" and schools are committed to mainstreaming children ...
We all know that Concept Development captures how teachers promote children’s higher-order thinking skills. We can define the indicators and give ...
As a first-year preschool teacher, I would wake up early one Saturday every month to attend a teaching workshop at a local college. Some of these ...
We spend a lot of time at Teachstone thinking about teachers—pre-service teachers just starting to learn about classroom interactions and in-service ...
Recently, a Science article assessing over 600 centers in multiple states highlighted that current ways of assigning quality ratings in Quality ...