Preschool Educators and Workforce Professional Learning

What We’re Reading: Early Educator Voices in Oregon

By Suze Wehr | Apr 17, 2023

Creating excellent early care and learning opportunities for children begins by supporting the skilled educators and caregivers behind the work. Too often, inadequate working environments and poor compensation cause significant difficulties for those trying to offer the best quality education and care. These conditions have been overlooked in the past despite their direct impact on skill development, teaching effectiveness, and well-being of providers and children. But with sustainable support strategies and in-depth analysis of areas in need of improvement, Oregon can transform the working environments of early educators for the better.

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Exploring Community and Early Learning in Eastern Oregon

By Kali Thorne Ladd | Feb 14, 2023

Our visit to Eastern Oregon in late January illuminated how we make transformational change for children, families, communities and our state. The more we listen and learn from communities across Oregon, the better off we’ll be.

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Setting the Record Straight on Social-Emotional Learning: A Teacher’s Perspective

By CI Guest | Nov 30, 2022

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in the news a lot lately, and this recent surge of news about SEL has come with a good deal of misinformation. In this blog series, we’ll attempt to set the record straight on SEL by exploring the benefits and importance of SEL for young children, highlighting its recent politicization, and understanding what polling tells us about the best way to communicate with parents about the topic.

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Setting the Record Straight on Social-Emotional Learning: The Business Case for SEL

By CI Guest | Nov 30, 2022

Just as early childhood advocates frequently cite the economic case for early learning, proponents of SEL shouldn’t shy away from making the case that teaching social-emotional skills to young children makes good business sense. There are a lot of important reasons for teaching these skills starting at a young age and the fact that these skills will make it easier down the road for students to succeed in the workplace is a fact worth highlighting.

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Setting the Record Straight on Social-Emotional Learning: An Introduction

By CI Guest | Nov 21, 2022

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in the news a lot lately, and this recent surge of news about SEL has come with a good deal of misinformation. In this blog series, we’ll attempt to set the record straight on SEL by exploring the benefits and importance of SEL for young children, highlighting its recent politicization, and understanding what polling tells us about the best way to communicate with parents about the topic.

Podcast Educators and Workforce Equity

Race and Racism in Education with Dr. Marvin Lynn

By Rafael Otto | Jan 21, 2022

On this episode, host Rafael Otto speaks with Dr. Marvin Lynn, who most recently served as the dean at Portland State University’s Graduate School of Education.

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Early Works has Changed my Community

By CI Guest | Jan 7, 2022

Yoncalla's partnership with Children's Institute has changed our community.

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The Early Childhood Coalition Gave me a Space to Speak as an Expert in Family Care

By CI Guest | Jan 6, 2022

Working with Children’s Institute and the Early Childhood Coalition gave me a space to speak as an expert in family care and I was able to help shape priorities for the 2021 legislative session.

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Because of Early Works, I Know my Voice Matters

By CI Guest | Jan 6, 2022

Thanks to Early Works, I've had opportunities to become a leader in my school and help other families.

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ELD Releases Interactive Data & Planning Tool

By Ashley Walker | Nov 19, 2021

Oregon's Early Learning Division has released the Early Learning Map for Oregon (ELMO), an interactive data and planning tool that can help schools, community and state agencies, Early Learning Hubs, advocacy groups, and other early learning partners to plan and...