Preschool
Growing Healthy Minds
Our newest video highlights the Children's Institute's partnerships with two communities doing amazing work: Lane County and Wallowa County.
Oregon Announces Preschool Promise Awardees
Last week, Oregon's Early Learning Division announced their Preschool Promise award recommendations. The announcement marks an important step in the state’s process to increase publicly funded preschool opportunities for low-income children in Oregon. Preschool...
Preschool Promise: Oregon Launches Mixed-Delivery Preschool
In January, the Oregon Department of Education’s Early Learning Division will begin accepting applications for a brand new stream of state funding for early learning: Preschool Promise. Preschool Promise will bring access to publicly-funded,...
Oregon School District Preschool Survey
The Children's Institute conducted a survey of Oregon school districts to learn which operate preschools, and how they operate them. This report features the data and what we can learn from it. Read Report...
Coming Together
In Coming Together, we report on our work at our Early Works site in Yoncalla, Oregon. The report details how the community and school district in Yoncalla, along with the Ford Family Foundation and the Children's Institute, have come together to build a new...
Advancing Birth-to-Third-Grade Success
The Ready for School Leaders’ Panel and the Children’s Institute are poised to make a significant impact for Oregon’s youngest and most vulnerable children in the 2015 Legislative Session. Advancing Birth-to-Third-Grade Success, our 2015 policy brief, makes the...
Parents as Partners: Engaging Families in Schools
Through the Early Works initiative, the Children's Institute has partnered with two Oregon elementary schools - Earl Boyles in Southeast Portland and Yoncalla in Southern Oregon. Family engagement is a core Early Works strategy. This video details the...
Building Blocks
Building Blocks looks at how two Oregon school districts, Pendleton and David Douglas, passed bonds that included financing for high-quality early learning facilities. A key finding of the report is that early learning sells. Read Report...
Swati Adarkar on 3rd Grade Reading Benchmark and Early Learning
More than one-third of Oregon children aren't meeting third grade reading benchmarks. Swati Adarkar discusses this problem — and its solutions — with Ken Ackerman of Comcast Newsmakers.
2nd Alexander Award Presented to Lynn Lundquist
At our 2014 Make It Your Business event, the 2nd annual Alexander Award was presented posthumously to Lynn Lundquist.
