Check out this great blog post by my amazing colleague @kdemeocook! It's SO important to not only be thinking about children during the transition to kindergarten, but also their families. earlychildhoodny.org/blog/supportin…

Our new study with Start Early and UChicago Consortium finds access played a key role in achieving more equitable school-based, full-day pre-k enrollment! See a snapshot of our findings: bit.ly/3ogtnOK @skabourek John Q Easton Maia Connors

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Learn more about what research is telling us about how to strengthen the transition into kindergarten by @kdemeocook @KKauerz, including a new study funded by ACF bit.ly/2Vh2wFa #NRCEC2020

See what NORC is involved in at #NRCEC2020 to better understand how to improve children’s transitions from Head Start programs to elementary schools with @childtrends National P-3 Center

How do combinations of transition activities experienced by children and families predict successful kindergarten transitions? Come to our #AERA21 session Sun 4/11 4:10ET to hear about findings. @kdemeocook @skabourek OPRE NORC

Thrilled to be part of this paper session on Emergent Research Related to Kindergarten #AERA21. Come hear us talk about @OPRE funded work on kindergarten transition activities @kdemeocook and other papers by Kelly Purtell Arya Ansari @magottfried

Join NOW! @kdemeocook and I are presenting findings on kindergarten transitions at #AERA21 that are part of a larger project on the transition from Head Start to Kindergarten. Want to learn more? Visit the @OPRE project page at acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/u…

new IES Research findings on more equitable access to pre-k and 2nd-grade outcomes!

Amanda Stein & I wrote an op-ed about our new research with stacy b ehrlich loewe & John Q Easton! Chicago made pre-k access more equitable...and that created a pathway to better 2nd grade academic outcomes for high-priority students too. Start Early UChicago Consortium NORC

Check out this Q&A with...ME! This new study could help build the case for Chicago’s universal pre-K expansion bit.ly/3qDHTBR via @ChalkbeatCHI Amanda Stein NORC Maia Connors IES Research John Q Easton @skabourek UChicago Consortium Start Early

A new blog post from Child Trends discusses OPRE research on the role Head Start and K-12 systems can play to support Head Start to kindergarten transitions for children and their families. ow.ly/2ISH50Kmq4i

See what we have been up to with our partners!

While families & teachers do a lot to support children in their transition to kindergarten, #ECE & K-12 system leaders play a critical role, too. See how in this Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation video by NORC, National P-3 Center & Child Trends. ow.ly/xfZm103YcMJ

Looking forward to hearing this fantastic panel on what we need to focus on in #ECE to foster growth VOCEL Start Early A Better Chicago & ACPN (who I am partnering with to evaluate their kindergarten transition work). Register: lnkd.in/eug95eKc

Leadership matters, in ALL fields. This includes #ECE as we saw in our work developing the Early Education Essentials (now the Essential 0 - 5 Survey) startearly.org/resource/the-e…. See new work in IL that highlights this in K-12 by @IWERC_research

Great discussion by Eric (E. C.) Hedberg, PhD and Rucha Londhe about biases in research and the importance of community input. In case you think statistics is not based, Eric reminds us that "...math is pretty immune to a lot of human biases, but what we…lnkd.in/da3cDnQJ

Excited to see the Center for Early Learning Funding Equity go live and to engage with CELFE as we continue our work on how ECE programs braid funding to meet the needs of children and families!! For more on our work funded by OPRE being done at NORC at…lnkd.in/dznpjQFQ

Want to connect?? I'm excited to be heading to my first big in-person conference in almost 3 years this week at APPAM! I won't be presenting, but if anyone is interested in connecting, please reach out. Our team is looking to grow! NORC