The High Quality Early Learning Project

Set forth below are numerous resources to support the work of educators and policymakers seeking to ensure that high quality early learning experiences are available to all children.

Writings:

• “Quality UPK Teaching in Diverse Settings” – a report of the City College/Teachers College study of 9 New York City PreKindergarten Classrooms.
• A transdisciplinary approach to equitable teaching in early childhood education, by Souto-Manning, M., Falk, B., Lopez, D., Barros Cruz, L., Bradt, N., Cardwell, N., McGowan, N., Perez, A., Rabadi-Raol, A., & Rollins, E.
• Articles by Beverly Falk in The Hechinger Report
• High-Quality Early Learning for a Changing World, by Beverly Falk.
• Other books by Beverly Falk.
• PowerPoint Presentation on Brain Development and Social-Emotional Development, by Beverly Falk.
• “Joining with the Learner: A Strategy for Strengthening Early Childhood Education,” by Beverly Falk, Nancy Gropper and Rima Short for the NYC Early Childhood Exchange.
• Proposal to Revise the New York State Multi-Subject Content Specialty Test (CST) for Early Childhood (Birth – Grade 2), of the National Association of Early childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE).

Other Resources:

Alliance for Childhood

Boston Public Schools Focus on Children, Department of Early Childhood Education

Brazelton Touchpoints Center

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Child and Family Policy Center, NYU Steinhardt

Childcare Quality and Early Learning Center for Research and Professional Development, University of Washington

Critical Explorers

Day Care Council of New York

Defending the Early Years

Early Care & Learning Council

Edward Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy

Engineering is Elementary

Erikson Early Math Collaborative

First Five Years Fund

Gesell Institute of Child Development

High Scope

Inside Teaching

Investigating Choice Time (Renée Dinnerstein)

Learning Policy Institute – Early Childhood Education

Learning Policy Institute: How Learning Happens – a video series

Making Caring Common

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

National Center for Children & Families

National Center for Children in Poverty

National Institute for Early Education Research

New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute

North Carolina Office of Early Learning

NYC Department of Education, Early Childhood Education

Responsive Classroom

Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE)

Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)

Teaching Channel

The Center for Early Childhood Education, Eastern Connecticut University

Too Small to Fail

Understanding Language

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Early Learning

Yale Child Study Center

Zero to Three