Children’s Institute’s Early Learning Academy is a cohort-based learning experience for educators and leaders working to strengthen early learning in their districts.

This opportunity is built on 12 years of experience partnering with school districts across Oregon to create and strengthen early learning, fit to local contexts, through our Early Works and Early School Success initiatives. We’ve refined what we’ve learned into essential practices and an inclusive process for change.

Participants in the Early Learning Academy develop their ability to build or improve early learning with a lens toward equity and community voice. They hear real examples of work being done to build and align early learning systems from Early School Success participants, Early Works participants, and national exemplars.

We draw from the expertise of local, culturally specific organizations that have found ways to partner with school districts to create powerful solutions for the communities they serve. And participants become a part of our network, sharing learning with colleagues around the state, and accessing to our growing Change Library of ideas that will help them carry this work into the future.