Data. Data. Data. We hear a lot about using data these days. We know it is important and useful, but honestly, it can be overwhelming. So, how do you ...
Leadership & Policy (7)
As the former Vice President of Education and Program Operations, as well as the Head Start/Early Head Start Program Director, of a large Chicago ...
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Ken Blanchard Consider for a moment the roles both influence and control play in ...
There’s a powerful shift happening in early childhood classrooms across Louisiana. While education leaders across the country have visions of ...
When my first child was born, I was 30. I was also married, had a master’s degree, and taught in a district that paid pretty well. During my ...
A year ago, urged on by my insightful new colleague, Manda Klein, who was born and raised in Texas, I wrote a blog entitled, At Our Core. It praised ...
It’s been a great year. You have just conducted some professional development trainings for the group of teachers you are coaching. You got the ...
Power to the Profession!
On a hot summer day in July 2016, I had the good fortune of being the one not on vacation on our small policy and research team. Instead, I went to ...
Decades of evidence indicate that high-quality early childhood education positively affects children. Yet studies reveal that too few programs ...