joyful, blunt, prone to snark. into #earlychildhood before it was cool. founder and principal consultant at pillars research + strategy.
Washington, D.C.
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Joining the Early Childhood Education Community of Practice! @RockyMtnPrep @OneCitySchools @CaireKaleem @AppleTreeInst @aklibetti
breaking my twitter silence to draw your attention to this potentially VERY exciting news re: access to health insurance vis-a-vis the family glitch.
particularly relevant to early educators!
federalregister.gov/document… (h/t @ewburak)
such a cool resource. though feel free to add an early childhood section :) @StudentSuccess
Want to find examples of states and districts investing their federal relief $ in smart ways to get students back on track?
This is a good site to explore and bookmark: edurecoveryhub.org/
*co-authored with @HarrietDichter and informed by dozens of state-level actors. full-team effort to pull all of the information together!
At #WLI22 covering the topic that is on everyone's mind: workforce compensation.
Speaker @aklibetti authored the below research that covers what early ed compensation currently looks like in the US.
this is good news. stipends and bonuses are one of the most common state strategies to increase compensation, even more so with ARPA Stabilization dollars. now imagine what we could do with real, systematic wage increases!
(more state approaches to comp: buildinitiative.org/wp-conte…)
Virginia's Teacher Recognition Program provides $ to support early educators & reduce turnover. We did an RCT and found that $1500 cut turnover among child care teachers in half from 30% to 15% (!!). New w/ @JustinBDoromal @molly_michie @viviancwong1 bit.ly/see_partnerships_ince…
align preschool and K! align preschool and K!
a crucial takeaway here is that *combined* prek+k early math interventions had longer-term effects on kids.
so pls consider this a formal request to approach prek+k alignment as a must-have and not a nice-to-have.
@MDRC_News
what we're seeing at the national level, concretized in the context of Hyde Park.
"I have families paying $250 a week for me to watch their child. To them, that's a lot of money, but to me, working 12 hours a day, that's nothing."
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if you're not paying attention to ECE workforce compensation, you're doing it wrong. come learn concrete details and decisions about strategies currently underway.
paper here:
buildinitiative.org/resource…
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"We can’t waste this once-in-a-generation chance on simply trying to scale preschool. We must be clear that what we need to focus on is scaling equity."
thehill.com/opinion/educatio… via @YasminaNHSA @TheHillOpinion
I'm not fangirling, but also I very much am. nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/ch…
Ashley LiBetti retweeted
It bears repeating that banning abortion doesn’t stop women from having abortions — it just stops women from having *safe* abortions.
this is focused on K-12, but a key lesson for #earlychildhood -- financial incentives for educators are a crucial support, but shouldn't exacerbate existing stress and burnout. southerneducation.org/public…
via @SouthernEdFound
SEL training can help alleviate teacher burnout, stress districtadministration.com/h… via @DA_magazine 1/2
current workforce! future workforce! good things for business! thehill.com/opinion/finance/… via @TheHillOpinion @genemarks
this thread is WILD.
Anyways, here’s our truly bonkers story on America’s Frontline Doctors and what’s really going on in these private, 25,000-member ivermectin Facebook pages.
It was a lot of work. I hope you read it.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/i…
a solid case for aligning the climate and care movements, via @ehaspel
and also this gem: "In contrast to the climate crisis, vanishingly few people think the child care crisis is a hoax."
NEW from me in @newrepublic: Facing a generational moment of peril and opportunity, it's time for the climate and care movements to join forces.
newrepublic.com/article/1634…
this. our center-centric approach to early childhood policy - funding delivery, compliance standards, access to supports - disadvantages home-based care providers, with very clear equity implications bellwethereducation.org/site…
That’s why we are asking Congress to invest in all child care settings, including family child care. Learning happens wherever children are and we need investments that are equitably distributed to create a better way forward for child care. #SolveChildCare