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Early Learning Insights & Resources

  • teachers meeting together

    How Wyoming Developed Early Learning Standards for Educators, by Educators

    Wyoming’s collaborative, grassroots process led to early learning standards that have practical relevance for educators across the state.

  • teacher and student

    How Preschool Programs Can Use SEL and Relationships to Foster Lifelong Learning

    Supportive, affirming preschool experiences pave the way for children’s positive perceptions of school and trusting relationships with teachers.

  • Literacy Lens by Ashley Sheppard

    Literacy Lens: Connecting Family Engagement and Effective Schoolwide Literacy Programs

    Engaging parents and other caregivers as true partners in their children’s literacy development and overall education is an essential part of building a collaborative literacy culture.

  • Mikkaka Overstreet

    Literacy Lens: Literacy as a Tool for Empowerment

    Dr. Overstreet explores the power of literacy instruction that deliberately and authentically connects to students’ diverse cultural identities and real-life experiences.

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    Using Data to Build an Early Childhood System for Wyoming’s Future

    Wyoming is using data from its Preschool Development Grant evaluation to strengthen education systems for the state’s youngest residents.

  • Stephanie Krauss joins Education Northwest

    Student Advocate Stephanie Malia Krauss Joins Education Northwest

    Education Northwest welcomes our new senior fellow, Stephanie Krauss, who will support our work in youth development, workforce development, and alternative education.

  • two parents with two children

    Parent Involvement in Education

    This classic 1989 brief from researchers Kathleen Cotton and Karen Reed Wikelund remains widely cited and circulated more than 20 years after original publication.

  • an adult carrying a child

    What Administrators Can Do To Ready Their Schools To Support Kindergarten Transitions

    Ensure smooth transitions for all incoming kindergarten students and their families with recommendations in this white paper and "taking action" worksheet.

  • A teacher helping a preschool student

    Closing the Discipline Gap Where It Starts—in Preschool Programs

    Researcher Vicki Nishioka frames alarming statistics for out-of-school suspensions and discipline disparities in preschool programs with a set of practices that can help schools end the problem.

  • A group of preschoolers laughing and smiling

    What We Are Learning About the Academic Tenacity of Our Youngest Learners

    What skills can preschoolers learn that will ultimately help them get into college? It may sound surprising, but research suggests even very young children are already developing skills that will help them later in life.

  • A parent hugging their children in a classroom with their teacher smiling

    Lessons from the Early Years: A Personal Journey Into School-Family-Community Partnerships

    Offering a few key strategies taken from the preschool years for educators to help promote family involvement in students’ education.

  • illustration of a teacher with students and a giant book

    Six Ways Principals Can Support the Transition to Kindergarten

    Kindergarten transitions are important for children to succeed in school and later in life. What do principals need to know to help their youngest students thrive?

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    Bringing Parents Out of the Dark

    As a parent who also works for an organization specializing in education research, I see schools working hard to stop exclusionary discipline practices and have seen research that shows that students who fall behind are most at risk for not graduating.

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    Full-Day Kindergarten

    Research, data, and resources to help practitioners and policymakers make important decisions about schools and students

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