This week, children across Oregon and the country are returning to school: meeting new teachers, learning new routines, and navigating new friendships and group dynamics. This can be overwhelming, especially for our youngest students who are still learning how to...
Contact: Rafael Otto | Director of Communications | (503) 219-9034 | rafael@childinst.org Portland, OR — Children’s Institute, an early childhood policy and advocacy organization, has chosen Beaverton and Forest Grove School Districts to participate in the first...
Children’s Institute is pleased to announce that the Forest Grove and Beaverton School Districts have been selected as our initial partners in our latest initiative, Early School Success (ESS). After a competitive application process, it was clear that both Forest...
As Swati Adarkar, Children’s Institute’s (CI) president and CEO, reflected on her organization’s experience with Early Works—an initiative launched in 2010 that set out to improve the learning experiences for children before they enter kindergarten—she found that...
