Successful Students
Summer Reading at Earl Boyles Strengthens Literacy in Young Learners
Second graders improve their literacy skills with the four-week Summer Bookworm program each summer at Earl Boyles. The Summer Bookworm collaborative reading program at Earl Boyles Elementary in southeast Portland just finished its fifth summer as a skill-building...
Good Health = Great Kids
Children’s Institute releases its latest policy brief about the importance of early childhood health and development in improving school readiness and building a foundation for third-grade achievement. When children aren’t healthy, they have difficulty...
2016 MIYB: Keynote Address by Dr. Dana Suskind
Dr. Dana Suskind is a national expert on early language development and co-author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain. At the Children's Institute's 2016 Make It Your Business event, she inspired the audience with neuroscience showing that...
Collaboration in Wallowa connects health to early learning
Maria Weer with children at the library. At the time, Liz Powers and Maria Weer were both relative newcomers to Wallowa County. Liz was a new family practice physician in Enterprise. Maria worked for a non-profit organization called Building Healthy...
Thirty Million Words: A Conversation with Dr. Dana Suskind
We recently spoke with Dr. Dana Suskind, founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, about what inspired her to become an expert on early language development. She also shares some advice on how families can support young children to develop...
Rural Education in Oregon
This new study, conducted by the Children's Institute and Chalkboard Project, finds that rural Oregon students face the twin challenges of poverty and distance in meeting their education goals. The study examines how rural students perform compared to their peers...
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...
Showing Up, Staying In
In its new report “Showing Up, Staying In,” the Children’s Institute calls for swift and meaningful action from the state of Oregon to combat chronic absence in all grades, but in particular the early grades starting with kindergarten. 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.
Leading the Way
How 4 Oregon superintendents are taking on early learning in their districts. The video was shown at our 6th annual Make It Your Business event in 2014.
