June 6, 2024
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Each year, we accept up to eight Leadership Fellows into the Post Master’s Certificate in Early Education Research, Policy & Practice (PMC) at UMass Boston. Fellows are selected based on their experience and interest in advancing the field of early … Continue reading
January 9, 2024
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Ami Patel and Julie Smith became fast friends at the first meeting of their Early Education Leadership Fellowship cohort in the Post-Master’s Certificate in Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice (PMC) program, bonding immediately over the realization that both were … Continue reading
November 20, 2023
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Early Ed Leadership Institute) at UMass Boston is pleased to announce the selection of five Early Education Leadership Fellows for the 2023-2025 cohort of its Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Early Education … 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
September 23, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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We are pleased to announce the selection of eight Early Educator Leadership Fellows for the 2020-2021 cohort of our Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice. This group of experienced early childhood educators will spend the next … Continue reading
August 11, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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When Massachusetts Congresswoman Katherine Clark announced her Child Care Is Infrastructure Act, which would authorize $10 billion over five years to invest in the early care and education sector (ECE), she did so with ECE experts by her side who … Continue reading
September 10, 2019
by Anne Douglass
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Leadership Institute) at UMass Boston is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 Early Educator Leadership Fellows for its Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Early Education Research, Policy, and Practice. The Early Educator Leadership … Continue reading