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The latest news and articles that highlights our research and collaborative work
Audrey Breen
UVA School of Education and Human Development
October, 2024
Researchers enhance the way Virginia early childhood educators can customize and use their STREAMin3 curriculum.
Much more flexible than the previous printed materials, the portal allows teachers to populate and customize their use of the curriculum with the touch of a button.
Kyra Parker, Molly Michie, Amanda Williford, & Daphna Bassok
Study of Early Education through Partnerships
September, 2024
Findings from the 2023 Virginia Family Survey indicate that exclusionary discipline is fairly common in Virginia’s early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings, with Black children, boys, and older children at increased risk of exclusionary discipline practices. This report sheds light on findings from the 2023 Virginia Family survey and includes several recommendations to help reduce exclusionary discipline practices in ECCE settings.
Khara L.P. Turnbull, Jamie DeCoster, Jason T. Downer, Amanda P. Williford
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
July, 2024
This study explores the links between executive functioning and children’s gains in school readiness skills. The study describes implications for promoting children’s ability to learn and thrive in preschool settings. It explores these ideas with a focus on children’s engagement with teachers, peers, and learning activities.
Audrey Breen
UVA School of Education and Human Development
April, 2024
As part of a larger grant, researchers at the UVA Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) will be testing the effectiveness of the STREAMin3 early childhood curriculum in private, center-based childcare programs across Virginia
Amanda P. Williford, Pilar Alamos, Jessica E. Whittaker & Maria R. Accavitti
Early Education and Development
December, 2023
This study examined teachers’ self-reported use of classroom-based soft exclusionary discipline practices with kindergarten students whom they perceived as displaying the lowest self-regulation and social skills. Findings highlight the importance of better understanding the range and types of exclusionary discipline practices used with young students, and which children are most likely to experience them.
Jessica E. Whittaker, Tara Hofkens, Virginia E. Vitiello, Robert C. Pianta, Jamie DeCoster, Arya Ansari
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
November, 2023
This study identifies children with certain clusters of readiness skills at kindergarten entry and explore whether high-quality teacher-child interactions may be especially critical for particular students.
Ann Partee, Amanda Williford, Jason Downer, Jenna Conway, Erin Carroll
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
October, 2023
This study describes the implementation and findings from a consultation process designed to enhance the professional development (PD) offered to teachers working in Virginia’s state-funded preschool program.
Natalie S. Evans, Ryan Burke, Virginia Vitiello, Sharon Zumbrunn, Jamie Jirout
Thinking Skills and Creativity
September, 2023
Curiosity is an important driver of student’s learning and school is a promising venue for promoting curiosity through social interactions between teachers and students. This article explore how this critical life skill can be measured and promoted.
Audrey Breen
UVA School of Education News
September 11, 2023
UVA researchers and Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) partners will scale the novel data system to better understand and improve access to quality early childcare across the Commonwealth.
Nicole Hsu
New America
April, 2023
What does a high-quality Pre-K curriculum implementation look like? This article highlights the importance of an integrated birth-to-five approach that offers educators autonomy and support as they implement. It also emphasizes the importance of ongoing professional development opportunities.
Daphna Bassok, Laura Bellows, Anna J. Markowitz, and Kate Miller-Bains
Brookings Institute – Brown Center Chalkboard
April 11, 2023
In this commentary, researchers unpack the complexities of ECE professionalization efforts and suggest two policy solutions.
Ann Partee, Shubhi Sachdeva, Marissa A. Bivona, Kelsey A. Clayback, Sasha Miller-Marshall, Kyra Parker, Pilar Alamos, Cloe Frank, Jason T. Downer, Amanda Williford
Frontiers in Education
February, 2023
In this article, the authors describe the implementation tensions arising during the first year of a pilot ECMHC program conducted in partnership across multiple agencies and a state’s department of education.
Anna Bryson
Richmond Times-Dispatch
February, 2023
Virginia’s kindergartners showed slight improvement on standardized assessments this fall compared to last year’s class, which could signal academic recovery from coronavirus pandemic-related learning loss.
More News
- New Free Resource Hub Provides Comprehensive Tools for Early Childhood Educators - Nov 2022
- Minding the Gap: Assessing Early Elementary Students' Development - Nov 2022
- Kicked Out: UVA Researchers Probe Inequitable Preschool Discipline - Sep 2022
- Education Researcher Offers 5 Tips to Smooth Children's School Transitions - Aug 2022
- UVA Early Childhood Curriculum Will Be Made Available Statewide - Apr 2022
- Supporting Our Youngest Generation - Mar 2022
- Invisible Students: The Information Crisis in Early Education - Jan 2022
- Implementation Evaluation of the STREAMin3 Curriculum Model - Dec 2021
- Virginia Suspends Preschoolers at a High Rate. What Is the State Doing About It? - Nov 2021
- Virginia is Changing Expectations for Child Care Providers to Put Focus on Early Education - Jun 2021
- Tough Test: The Nation's Troubled Early Learning Assessment Landscape - Mar 2021
- Research-Practice Partnerships Strengthen Early Education - Spring 2021
- Early Education is More Demanding than Ever, and Experts Have Concerns - Apr 2020
- Establishing the Building Blocks of High-Quality Early Childhood Education - Jun 2019
- Pre-School: It's Not Babysitting Anymore - Oct 2019
- Kindergarten Assessments Begin to Shape Instruction - Oct 2017
