TALKS & BRIEFINGS
Presentation (video): Transitional Kindergarten: The New Kid on the Early Learning Block
Duke University Early Childhood Initiative Lecture, April 2024
Brief (pdf): An evidence path to expanding high-quality Pre-K in Michigan
Authors: Christina Weiland, Ajay Chaudry, Anna Shapiro, Jordan Berne, Katie Hyland, Nicole Hamp, & Annie Taylor
Brief (pdf): Michigan Transitional Kindergarten: A first look at program reach and features
Authors: Anna Shapiro, Jordan Berne, Katia Cordoba Garcia, Brian Jacob, Tareena Musaddiq, Sam Owusu, & Christina Weiland
MDRC Policy Brief (Funded by the Gates Foundation)
Brief (pdf): What sustains the Pre-K boost? New evidence from the Boston Public Schools
Authors: Tiffany Wu, Meghan McCormick, Christina Weiland, JoAnn Hsueh, Jason Sachs, & Catherine Snow
MDRC Policy Brief (Funded by the Gates Foundation)
Authors: Christina Weiland, Meghan McCormick, Tiffany Wu, Cullen MacDowell, Paola Guerrero Rosada, Annie Taylor, Catherine Snow, & Jason Sachs
Boston Early Childhood RPP Policy Brief
Authors: Tiffany Wu, Christina Weiland, Meghan McCormick, JoAnn Hsueh, Jason Sachs, & Catherine Snow
Boston Early Childhood RPP Policy Brief
Brief (pdf): Successful data collection in early childhood settings during COVID-19: Lessons from Boston Universal Pre-K
Authors: Rachel Kushner, Annie Taylor, Louisa Penfold, Christina Weiland, Meghn McCormick, & Catherine Snow
Boston Early Childhood RPP Policy Brief
Brief (pdf): Widely used measures of Pre-K classroom quality: What we know, gaps in the field, and promising new directions
Authors: Christina Weiland & Paola Guerrero Rosada
MDRC Policy Brief (Funded by the Gates Foundation)
Policy brief (pdf): A new approach to sustaining pre-K impacts: Leveraging naturally occurring lotteries to examine a district-wide rollout of instructional alignment across pre-K and kindergarten.
Authors: Meghan McCormick, Rebecca Unterman, Mirjana Pralica, Christina Weiland, Amanda Weissman, & JoAnn Hsueh
MDRC Policy Brief
Presentation (video): Text-based mentoring for postpartum mothers: Impacts and lessons from a mixed-methods randomized trial
Harvard University PIER Seminar, March 2022
Policy brief (pdf): Evidence-based curricula and job-embedded coaching for teachers promote preschoolers' learning
Authors: Christina Weiland & Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Society for Research in Child Development
Policy brief (pdf): Preschool for All: A Strong Start for Washington State's Children
Authors: Christina Weiland, Tim Burgess, Ajay Chaudry, Ruth Kagi, Anna Shapiro, & Casey Moran
UM Education Policy Initiative
Panel discussion (video): The future of early childhood education after COVID-19
Panelists: Miriam Calderon, Jenn Conway, Christina Weiland, with Jon Valant as moderator
Brookings Institute, August 18th, 2021
Research & Policy brief (pdf): Improving early childhood measurement: Findings from the Early Learning Network using measures that capture how young children spend their time
Authors: Christina Weiland, Lillie Moffett, Ashley Adams, Tiffany Foster, Laura Justice, Susan Sheridan, Amanda Weissman, & Amanda Witte
Early Learning Network Brief, July 2021
Presentation (video): Cradle to Kindergarten: A new plan to combat inequality - 2nd Edition (with U.S. Representative Bobby Scott, Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, Melissa Boteach, Miriam Calderon, & Ruth Marcus)
American University, March 2021
Policy brief (pdf): Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education Centers: Descriptive Evidence from Boston's Universal Prekindergarten Initiative
Authors: Paola Guerrero Rosada, Christina Weiland, Anne Taylor, Louisa Penfold, Catherine Snow, Jason Sachs, & Meghan McCormick
University of Michigan Ford School Education Policy Initiative Policy Brief, March 2021
Policy brief (pdf): Findings on Boston Prekindergarten through Early Elementary School
Authors: Christina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman, Anna Shapiro, & Hirokazu Yoshikawa
University of Michigan Ford School Education Policy Initiative Policy Brief, October 2019
Presentation (slides): Building, building up, and building out: A decade of research on the Boston Prekindergarten Program
Boston Foundation
Boston, MA, January 2018
Presentation (slides): Cradle to kindergarten: A new plan to combat inequality (with Ajay Chaudry)
Seattle City Hall
Seattle, WA, December 2017
Presentation (video): Cradle to kindergarten: A new plan to combat inequality (with Ajay Chaudry and Taryn Morrissey)
Georgetown University Law School
Washington, DC, May 2017
Sponsored by University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions and the School of Education, in partnership with the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Presentation (video): Forum on Access to Early Care and Education (with Ajay Chaudry)
Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, and Seniors and the CT Office of Early Childhood
Hartford, CT, May 2017
(slides): New Research on the Benefits of Universal Preschool
(text): New Research on the Benefits of Universal Preschool
Seattle, WA, February 2013
SRCD Co-Sponsored Congressional Briefing
(slides): Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education
(text): High Quality Preschool Expansion: What Does Research Say?
Washington, DC and Boston, MA, April 2014
Presentation (slides): Inclusion preschool in the Boston Public Schools: Impacts and dosage
National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation
Washington, DC, October 2015
Panel (video): What works in early childhood education
Ford School of Public Policy and School of Education, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, March 2016
Invited conference presentation (slides): Observational quality ratings as tools for building high-quality preschool programs
ACF National Research Conference on Early Childhood
Washington, DC, July 2016