Power of Pre-K

Articles & Links~

• 5th-graders help teach preschoolers with disabilities

• 8 Practices to Help Improve Preschool Education RELATED: Partnering to Connect Research to Practice in Nashville, TN

• A 19-Year Study Reveals Kindergarten Students With These 2 Skills Are Twice as Likely to Obtain a College Degree (And They Have Nothing to Do With Reading)

• Can Pre-K help students, even if they don't attend

• The Case for Universal Pre-K Just Got Stronger

• The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects

• Do play, academics belong together in preschool?

• Educator: How to balance work priorities

• Eight Essential Traits for Educators: A few of the skills you need - or want to develop - as a teacher

• Extracting Success in Pre-K Teaching

• Fighting Teacher Stress

• Five Lessons for Growing Strong Pre-K Teachers

• High Quality Preschool~

• How Does Your City Stack Up When It Comes to Pre-K Quality?

• How 'twisted' early childhood has become - from a child development expert

• Intentional Teaching Makes the Biggest Impact on Early Childhood Outcomes

• Kindergarten gets little time to play. Why does it matter?

• The Power of Pre-K - May 2021

• A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions

• MECK Pre-K (video)

• A Mindset Shift to Continue Supporting the Most Frustrating Kids

• The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids: Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.

• New Research Shows Link Between Kindergarten Cutoff Dates and ADHD Diagnosis

• NC Receives Top Score in Preschool rankings

• The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids: Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less

• North Carolina Study: Early Education Gains Persist, Are Linked To Funding: Children who lived in counties that adequately funded early childhood programs made significant gains in reading and math

• North Carolina Study Links Pre-K to Middle School Achievement

• Pre-K Access and Quality: A Look at the Leading States

• Pre-K in American Cities (Charlotte is ranked as a 'gold' standard :) NIEER Report

• Preschool During the Pandemic: Early Childhood Education in Extraordinary Times

• The Question is not Whether to Provide Pre-K, But How, Researchers Say - 2022

• Report: NC Pre-K Has Helped Over 350,000 Children

• Report: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects May 2017 Quick synopsis of study: 

• 2017 Report on the Effectiveness of Prekindergarten in Public Schools

• **Report highlights current research about early learning** May 2017

• Should Children be Ready for Kindergarten or Should Kindergarten be Ready for Children?

• Studies Show Long-Term Benefits of Preschool

• Study: Academics in preschool boosts learning

• Study: Early supports benefit low-income youths

• **Teachers find market for lesson plans**

• Understanding a Teacher’s Long-Term Impact:  Fostering skills like self-regulation does more to improve students’ future outcomes than helping them raise their test scores.

• Universal preschool is most cost-effective, study finds

• Untangling the Evidence on Preschool Effectiveness: Insights for Policymakers

• What if All Children Had Access to Pre-K 4 SA?

• Why definitions matter (Low performing schools in NC)

• Why Preschool is "The Most Important Year" in a Child's Development

• **Zero-to-five programs yield positive outcomes**

• Zen and the Art of Meaningful Meetings Why leaders should consider unstructured meetings

Empathy, not Expulsion

In her February 20, 2015 New York Times article, "Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk," Sara Neufeld reports that "preschoolers are expelled at three times the rate of children in kindergarten through 12th grade, with African-American boys being most vulnerable.

"Walter Gilliam, a Yale professor [began] conducting preschool expulsion research. After releasing a landmark report in 2005, he convened focus groups of teachers to find out why, in mixed-age classes, he was seeing 4-year-olds expelled at higher rates than 3-year-olds. The replies were consistent: Teachers perceived the 4-year-olds as more likely to hurt someone because they were bigger. 'That's when it dawned on me that expulsion is not a child behavior,' Gilliam said. 'It's an adult decision.'

"For the problem to be resolved, he realized, teachers needed to learn how to make different decisions. That meant learning how to help troubled children. The model of consultation with an expert has proven to be promising and cost-effective: In a Connecticut study, Gilliam found that it reduces preschool expulsions by half. Consultation also has been shown to improve the emotional well-being of all children in the pivotal years before kindergarten and to boost staff retention and job satisfaction in an industry with very high turnover."