June 6, 2025
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A new study from Early Education Leaders, an Institute at UMass Boston, has found that leadership development programs for early educators can be successfully scaled while maintaining impact—and even expanding equity. The peer-reviewed study, recently published in a special issue … Continue reading
February 24, 2025
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Early Education Leaders has received a $250,000 grant from the Stranahan Foundation to evaluate its Early Childhood Fellowship program, which provides a debt-free pathway for racially and linguistically diverse early educators to earn their bachelor’s degrees. The evaluation will examine … Continue reading
December 12, 2024
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A report released today by the UMass Boston Early Education Cost and Usage Simulator (CUSP) Project offers an innovative approach to mitigate the total loss of child care assistance that approximately 32,000 families would experience under Senate Bill 2707 (formerly … Continue reading
May 9, 2023
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The Institute of Early Education Leadership and Innovation at UMass Boston announces today that Marcelo Juica, Ph.D. will join the Institute as its Director of Programs. Juica brings over 25 years of experience in higher education leadership and administration and … Continue reading
July 25, 2022
by Anne Douglass
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation at UMass Boston (the Early Ed Leadership Institute) announces that it has been awarded $2.5 million by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) to manage and enhance … Continue reading
October 19, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Leadership Institute), housed in UMass Boston’s College of Education and Human Development, announces that Songtian (Tim) Zeng PhD, BCBA and Anne Douglass PhD are co-principal investigators on a study measuring the … Continue reading
October 19, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (the Leadership Institute), housed in UMass Boston’s College of Education and Human Development, announces today that it is designing a new Early Childhood Support Organization (ECSO) for the state’s licensed early care … Continue reading
September 28, 2020
by Anne Douglass
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A new report from the Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (Leadership Institute) at UMass Boston provides a detailed pre-pandemic snapshot of the early education workforce in Massachusetts. Authored by researchers from the Leadership Institute, the Center for Women … Continue reading
April 10, 2019
by Anne Douglass
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has commissioned UMass Boston’s Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation to conduct a statewide survey of early childhood educators. Led by Anne Douglass, executive director of Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation, this research study also draws … Continue reading
December 3, 2018
by Anne Douglass
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The Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation (IEELI) at UMass Boston issued a report on the early education and care (ECE) workforce in Massachusetts demonstrating that many educators face low pay and barriers to their professional development. The data presented in … Continue reading