April 12, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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A new study found that teachers’ educational attainment and current teaching positions explained wage gaps among a statewide representative sample of ECE center educators in Massachusetts. The study also found that center educators who self-identified as Black earned higher hourly … Continue reading
April 11, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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After 39 years as an ECE provider, you’d think Marcia Gadson-Harris would have little desire—or need—for more professional development training. And yet, last October she completed Leading for Change, the 14-week professional development program offered through the Massachusetts StrongStart Professional … Continue reading
March 18, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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In “Preparing early educators as frontline leaders and change agents with a leadership development initiative,” UMass Boston researchers show that early educators who participated in a relational-entrepreneurial leadership development program were likely to lead for change in curriculum improvement, family … Continue reading
March 16, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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Just as Becky DelVecchio launched her research project for her doctoral thesis, the world shut down due to COVID-19. She had originally planned to do an ethnographic study on the psychologically restorative benefits of nature play for children and families … Continue reading
February 16, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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For the Early Ed Leadership Institute’s Amanda Wiehe Lopes, earning a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education and Care capped a personal, educational, and professional journey that began when she was a teenager ignoring advice from the adults in her life … Continue reading
November 8, 2021
by Anne Douglass
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As early care and education (ECE) programs fully re-opened after the pandemic-related suspension in 2020, educators and caregivers noticed that many children were anxious about doing things that have been—for nearly all of human history—considered normal: playing in large groups … Continue reading
September 11, 2021
by Anne Douglass
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3The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Early Ed Leadership Institute) at UMass Boston is pleased to announce the selection of nine Early Education Leadership Fellows for the 2021-202 cohort of its Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Early Education … Continue reading
March 18, 2021
by Anne Douglass
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With three years of experience running the Learning Tree Experience, a family child care in Dorchester, Jasmine Cox knows a lot about what it takes to create a successful ECE business: building trusting relationships with families, the importance of structure … Continue reading
March 11, 2021
by Anne Douglass
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It’s safe to say that Keira Durrett has earned the title of “expert.” She’s worked in early care and education for over 30 years, 21 of them as director of the Williston North Hampton Children’s Center in Easthampton. Even so, … Continue reading
September 7, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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The COVID-19 pandemic has widely exposed what early care and education (ECE) professionals have long known: our ECE system is not sustainable in its current patchwork configuration. Yet it is also vital to the functioning of our economy and must … Continue reading