From birth, every child has unlimited potential. High-quality early learning opportunities are key to unlocking that potential, providing children the foundation they need for future success. Whether you’re looking to develop a new approach to early learning or improve an existing one, we can help you evaluate and implement programs and policies to ensure every child from birth through age 8 receives excellent education and care. By paying close attention to data and your local context, we help you develop relevant, evidence-based solutions that encourage healthy child development, meet families’ needs, and support strong early childhood systems.
Early Learning Specialties
- Culturally responsive early learning program evaluation
- Early learning program improvement
- Family, school, and community engagement evaluation and technical assistance
- Early learning workforce development research
- Professional development for early childhood educators
- Early literacy for multilingual children
Our Experts
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Senior Leader, Applied Research & Technical Assistance
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Leader, Equity, School Climate, & SEL
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Managing Researcher, Applied Research & Evaluation
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Senior Researcher, Applied Research & Equitable Evaluation
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Senior Researcher, Applied Research & Equitable Evaluation
Building a clear path toward equitable education for all, together
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Wyoming’s collaborative, grassroots process led to early learning standards that have practical relevance for educators across the state.
Supportive, affirming preschool experiences pave the way for children’s positive perceptions of school and trusting relationships with teachers.
Provide better support to early learning programs and kindergarten transitions with these resources from Education Northwest.
This classic 1989 brief from researchers Kathleen Cotton and Karen Reed Wikelund remains widely cited and circulated more than 20 years after original publication.
Ensure smooth transitions for all incoming kindergarten students and their families with recommendations in this white paper and "taking action" worksheet.
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