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Thrive In 5 – Boston Initiative, Center For Social Policy, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Thrive In 5 – Boston Initiative, Center For Social Policy, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The Center for Social Policy (CSP) is the external evaluator of Thrive in 5 Boston. Thrive in 5 is transforming Boston into a city that values and proactively nurtures young children’s school readiness – because when our youngest children thrive, we all prosper. Thrive in 5 envisions a city where families, educators, providers, business leaders, and communities come together with the knowledge, skills, and resources to prepare children for success in school and beyond. The center is helping to identify, implement, and evaluate community interventions designed to increase Boston children’s readiness for success in school at kindergarten age.
Head Start Classrooms And Children’S School Readiness Benefit From Teachers’ Qualifications And Ongoing Training, Seung-Hee Claire Son, Kyong-Ah Kwon, Hyun-Joo Jeon, Soo-Young Hong
Head Start Classrooms And Children’S School Readiness Benefit From Teachers’ Qualifications And Ongoing Training, Seung-Hee Claire Son, Kyong-Ah Kwon, Hyun-Joo Jeon, Soo-Young Hong
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications
Background Teacher qualifications have been emphasized as a basis of professional development to improve classroom practices for at-risk children’s school readiness. However, teacher qualifications have often not been compared to another form of professional development, in-service training.
Objective The current study attempts to investigate contributions of multiple types of professional development to school readiness skills of low-income preschoolers. Specifically, we examined the significance of teachers’ education level, degree, teaching certificate, teaching experiences as well as specialized in-service training and coaching support as these teacher trainings are linked to preschoolers’ school readiness through proximal classroom practices.
Method We used a multi-level …
Arts Enrichment And Emotion Expression And Regulation For Young Children At Risk, Eleanor D. Brown, Kacey L. Sax
Arts Enrichment And Emotion Expression And Regulation For Young Children At Risk, Eleanor D. Brown, Kacey L. Sax
Psychology Faculty Publications
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