This report, P-3 in Principal Preparation: Leveraging School Leadership to Improve Early Learning and the Early Grades, is grounded in a vision to close both opportunity and achievement gaps that have persisted for decades. The report focuses on five policy drivers that can influence elementary principals’ skills and knowledge at scale – state policy; the […]
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This report, P-3 in Principal Preparation: Leveraging School Leadership to Improve Early Learning and the Early Grades, is grounded in a vision to close both opportunity and achievement gaps that have persisted for decades. The report focuses on five policy drivers that can influence elementary principals’ skills and knowledge at scale – state policy; the
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This report proposes a new framework for elementary education that builds on, and is informed by, previous foundational efforts, centered on children and the ways we know children learn, and disrupting well-documented, historically rooted, and contemporarily entrenched biases in learning systems. While there is no single ideal elementary school experience, there are core ingredients to
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The Region 6 Comprehensive Center Network at University of North Carolina-Greensboro leads a project to ensure school policies, practices, and strategies for our youngest learners (PreK-3rd grade) encompass what research and data tell us is essential to their successful development and learning. As part of this project, the Center has published a series of short
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Do district policy changes that increase access to full-day school-based pre-kindergarten relate to improved 2nd grade academic outcomes? How? A study from Start Early, NORC at the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research examined these questions based on a set of Chicago Public School (CPS) policy changes that began
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The guide defines six competencies that guide elementary school principals to deepen their own knowledge related to Pre-K–3rd grade, and to reflect that knowledge through strong school leadership. This guide provides specific suggestions for principals to become more effective and visible leaders on behalf of young children. The National P-3 Center authored this guide, in
This report focuses on learning experiences in the early years, birth through age five, and the early grades (K-5). The authors identified three key policy areas that strongly influence children’s experiences in the classroom and disproportionately disadvantage children of color and children with disabilities. These policies areas include: Harsh discipline and its disproportionate application The
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As states and school districts navigate plans for Fall 2020, we are hosting a series of conversations with education decisionmakers in state education agencies (SEAs) and school districts. We believe better and smarter ideas emerge when colleagues have the space for open discussion and deliberation. This resource provides a summary of our conversations to date and
The National P-3 Center was invited by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) to present on our resource, “At-Home Teaching and Learning in PreK-3rd Grade”. The webinar was held on April 21st, 2020 and was delivered to an audience of 150 NAESP members.
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This document provides specific guidance related to school districts’ and elementary schools’ supports for at-home learning across the primary grades (PreK-3rd grade). This is not a compilation of e-resources. Rather, this document provides guidance about how to best support at-home learning, focusing on two fundamentals of effective teaching and learning in the early grades: child
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