2012 WHSA Spring Quarterly Meeting
WHAT: 2012 WHSA Spring Quarterly Meeting SPONSOR: Wisconsin Head Start Association (WHSA) WHEN: Wednesday, April 25 and Thursday, April 26, 2012 WHERE: The Madison Concourse Hotel DESCRIPTION: WHSA invites Director, Parent, and Staff Affiliate representatives as well...
Executive Director-Western Dairyland Community Action Agency
Job Description: Western Dairyland EOC Inc., headquartered in the City of Independence in West Central Wisconsin, is a non-profit Community Action Agency working to alleviate poverty-related conditions in a four-county area. The agency seeks an Executive Director to...
Environmental Rating Scales Training
Title: Environmental Rating Scales Training Location: Madison College Downtown Campus, 211 North Carroll Street, Madison, WI Link out: Click here Description: • Learn about the Infant Toddler Environmental Rating Scales and the Early Childhood Environmental Rating...
Wed May 2, 2012: Environmental Rating Scales Training
When: Wednesday & Thursday May 2-3, 2012; 8:00-4:00 Location: Madison College Downtown Campus, 211 N. Carroll Street, Madison, WI 53703 • Learn about the Infant Toddler Environmental Rating Scales and the Early Childhood. • Practice using the tools in real...
2012 HHS Poverty Guidelines
The Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines was published in the Federal Register on January 26, 2012. 2012 Poverty Guidelines. This is a summary of the poverty guidelines that were published by the Department of Health and Human Services. This information is...
Raising Attendance at Tulsa’s Head Start Program
by Lisa Guernsey for Early Ed Watch Blog Click here to view entire article. An overview of the importance of preschool attendance, this article touches on how Tulsa CAP Head Start and the programs On Time, On Target With Success, and Abriendo Puertas have improved...
The Link Between Obesity and the Early Mother-Child Relationship
by Dr. Esther Entin in the Atlantic Click here to view entire article. Dr. Entin summarizes research on obesity and mother-child attachment that found children who had the lowest quality relationships with their mothers were nearly two and a half times more likely to...
How Head Start Can Make a Difference
by Motoko Rich in the New York Times Economix Blog Click to view article. This article that ran recently in the New York Times examines research described in February’s Research Blast about how Head Start increases parental involvement, including among fathers who do...
Fathers’ and mothers’ cognitive stimulation in early play with toddlers: Predictors of 5th grade reading and math
by Gina Cook, Lori Roggman & Lisa Boyce in Family Science This unique effort to examine the contributions of both mothers’ and fathers’ play with their children to children’s academic outcomes at the end of elementary school supports much of the work that Early...
Math and Science in Preschool: Policies and Practice
by Kimberly Brenneman, Judi Stevenson-Boyd & Ellen Frede of NIEER Click here to view entire article. This Preschool Policy Brief from the National Institute for Early Education Research explores what is known about how young children interact with math and...
Preschools Reduce Early Academic-Achievement Gaps: A Longitudinal Twin Approach
by Elliot Tucker-Drob in Psychological Science Click here for the entire article. Tucker-Drob examined 600 sets of twins from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), to find out whether preschool attendance reduced the importance of family...
State Pre-K Assessment Policies: Issues and Status
State Pre-K Assessment Policies: Issues and Status Source: Educational Testing Service - Retrieved March 16, 2012 A recent report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), State Pre-K Assessment Policies: Issues and Status (February 2012) by Debra J. Ackerman and...
Building Blocks for a Strong Preschool to Early Elementary Education System
Building Blocks for a Strong Preschool to Early Elementary Education System Source: RAND Corporation - Retrieved March 12, 2012 The RAND Corporation has released testimony presented before the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee of the Whole on February 16,...
New Developments in Early Childhood Education
New Developments in Early Childhood Education Source: Harvard Family Research Project - March 15, 2012 The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) at the Harvard Family Research Project has published its March 2012 newsletter, which is devoted to New...
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