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Children’s Institute works passionately for a brighter future based on a foundation of love and care for every child and family, so that all of Oregon’s children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Registration is open for the 2024-2025 Early School Success Academy!

Our Early School Success Academy is team-based learning experience for educators working to strengthen early learning in their communities, preschool to third grade. District or school teams participate in four virtual sessions between October and March and five coaching sessions scheduled at their convenience.

Why participate? You’ll join a network of educators across Oregon working to strengthen early learning in their school communities. You’ll also get access to rich content, expert thought partnership, coaching, resources, and a membership to our exclusive change library.

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This co-production, in partnership with The Detour at Oregon Humanities, is part of an ongoing series to elevate youth voice. What do kids think about identity and becoming? Tune in to find out!

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Meet Heather Murphy, Early Learning and Family Resources Administrator at South Lane School District, sharing her experience with the Early School Success Academy.
 
Our ESS Academy is a team-based learning experience designed to help educators build stronger connections between preschool and third grade in their communities. Through virtual sessions and personalized coaching, participants join a statewide network of educators committed to improving early learning outcomes.
 
Stay tuned for exciting updates about our Academy on December 12!
We’re off to an incredible start! 🎉 The 2024-2025 Early School Success Academy is here, and we’re thrilled for a year of growth and collaboration with our amazing partners. 🙌

Watch this reel for highlights from Day 1 and stay tuned for more on December 12!
In a new episode of The Early Link Podcast, we talk with Paula Hyatt, a city councilor in Ashland, Oregon.
 
Paula shares about the work happening in Ashland to improve access to child care and early learning in the city and region. She also discusses how investments in children and children lifts up whole communities.
 
"You're investing in families, but you're also investing in your local economy. It tends to be symbiotic in that it helps families, but it also helps our local business."
 
Listen to the Early Link Podcast wherever you stream your podcasts!
 
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🎧 Now streaming: New episodes of The
 
Early Link Podcast!
 
In this all-new episode, we explore Multnomah County’s Preschool for All (@multcopreschoolforall) with Dr. Stephanie Curenton, a professor at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, and the lead evaluator for the Preschool for All program. Dr. Curenton highlights the intentional efforts to reach children from diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, emphasizing that equity must extend beyond race to include ability, gender identity, and financial considerations.
 
Listen to the Early Link Podcast at the link in bio, or stream wherever you get your podcasts.
 
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This is a revision from a post we shared yesterday, of an image and caption that identified Indigenous tribes of the Portland Metro region. The former post named only a fraction of the ancestral lands occupied by Indigenous communities across Oregon.

As a statewide organization, Children's Institute's work takes place on the ancestral lands of numerous Indigenous communities, who continue to be stewards of the land across all regions of our state.

We are on Indigenous land.
You are on Indigenous land. 

We invite you to learn more about the land that you occupy. Learn more at Native-Land.ca (link is also in our bio). 

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