Administrator Effectiveness

This guide supports principals to create and support connections between the worlds of birth-to-five and K-12 and to help them implement developmentally-appropriate teaching and learning practices to ensure successful PreK-3rd grade continuums in their schools. For the policymaker, this guide provides a research base that demonstrates the enormous dividends children gain through investments in early education

In the Fall of 2009, New Jersey’s PreK-3rd Leadership Training Series provided more than 200 district administrators and ECE providers with an opportunity to become more effective early learning supervisors, mentors, advocates, and leaders. The series provided attendees with research-based strategies and techniques that would enable them to identify and implement high-quality PreK-3rd grade programs in their districts; assisted

This manual is a practical guide specifically created for principals, administrators, teachers, and others directly involved in providing high-quality preschool and Kindergarten programs in both public and nonpublic settings. The manual provides key principles of early childhood education, resources for evaluators, and samples of “watch fors” in early childhood classrooms that align with standards. Although

This brief highlights the leadership of three superintendents from very different districts — Montgomery County Public Schools, MD; Bremerton School District, WA; and Nooksack Valley School District, WA — who led comprehensive efforts to integrate early learning with the K-12 system to create integrated PreK-3rd grade approaches. Each of these leaders began with simple and focused