The National P-3 Center is delighted to announce we have named an advisory board of esteemed experts from across the country. The past weeks have brought a whirlwind of change and uncertainty. We look forward to engaging with our board as we navigate how best to support young children and the schools and programs that …
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 …
We want to hear about elementary schools that are deeply engaged in PreK-3rd grade work. As part of our project to update National Association of Elementary School Principals’ (NAESP) 2014 guide Leading Pre-K-3 Learning Communities: Competencies for Effective Principal Practice, we will include “spotlights” that highlight schools from around the country. To nominate a school, …
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In concept, “alignment” sounds promising. It can be difficult to operationalize, however, especially for state policymakers. The National P-3 Center strives to make sense of states’ roles in P-3 work. For example, from 2017-2019, funded by the Nevada Department of Education’s Preschool Development Grant (PDG), we conducted a review of the B-3* alignment of state-level …
Over the past year, the National P-3 Center has been settling into its new home at the University of Colorado Denver. During this time, we refreshed our organizational design and strategic goals, gave our website a whole new look (and added lots of content about P-3), grew our team, secured $1.3 million in new funding, …
The Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating P-3 Approaches is the centerpiece for much of the work conducted by the National P-3 Center. The Framework is designed…
As an anchor for the future of our work, we recently welcomed a new member of the National P-3 Center team! Margaret (Meg) Soli joined us…
