Resources

What topics in education deserve more attention? In this season opener, we're joined by Bridget Hamre, Teachstone CEO and CLASS® author, who sheds light on how educators can enrich their teaching practices to foster whole student development.

Hear from Anna Kresse and Mackenzie Whipps from the Prenatal to 3 Policy Impact Center about the return on investing in early childcare. In our conversation, we also consider the role of CLASS in the Virginia project and its connection to the return on investment in the quality of childcare.

How can you incorporate music into your classroom, and what does that do for your students? What can it do for you? Listen to learn about how music affects communication and literacy, the magic of creating music together, and how to easily incorporate music with materials you already have.

We are back with another great episode of Impacting the Classroom. In this episode, our host Marnetta speaks to Keami Harris, the Chief Equity and Strategy Officer at the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, and Dr. William Johnson, the Director of Educational Strategy at the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. Together, they dive into the history of early childcare and how to support a more equitable system. You can listen to today's episode here or read the transcript below.

New research from the nonprofit, LENA, suggests that babies born since the pandemic started are talking less and experiencing fewer conversational turns than babies born before COVID. Listen to the full episode to learn how educators can best support healthy language development for these young children.

Our guests discuss what continuous quality improvement systems are, whether student experiences are improving as a result of them, and how to push the field toward a more equitable system where all children have access to high-quality, meaningful interactions.

As universal Pre-K becomes a real possibility in the United States, it’s important to look at other places that have these systems in place to find out what we can learn from them. In this episode, you’ll hear from two people who have firsthand experience with the pre-K system in Quebec. Listen to the conversation to learn about how Quebec’s childcare system came to be, the financial aspects of universal pre-K systems, and strategies for improving and ensuring quality at scale.

Dr. Lourdes Norman-McKay joins us to explain how teachers can get students comfortable with shades of grey in the discovery process and with not knowing the right answer.