News Archive
November 16, 2021
After honoring the 50-year history of technical assistance (TA) at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) by looking at the organization’s past work on behalf of children and their families, TA leaders celebrated this momentous anniversary by examining their current work.
November 11, 2021
With the motto, “teachers learning, students growing,” literacy experts at FPG's Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI) have been providing professional development for kindergarten through second grade teachers for the past 15 years to help struggling young readers.
November 8, 2021
Recently, to commemorate the golden anniversary of FPG’s celebrated technical assistance (TA) program, TA leaders and other notables in the field of early childhood education gathered for three sessions entitled Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence in Technical Assistance. The first in a three-part series, this article covers session one, "Reflecting on the wisdom of the past."
November 5, 2021
An interdisciplinary team across multiple departments at UNC in partnership with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities(ID/DD) and their families, and community organizations providing transition services for adolescents and adults will establish a community collaborative aimed at optimizing opportunities for employment for adults with ID/DD.
November 3, 2021
Clare Harrop, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Faculty Fellow at FPG, has received a 5-year, $3.28 million R01 award from the NIH (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development) to chart the impact of assigned sex at birth on developmental trajectories in young autistic children.
October 25, 2021
Caryn Ward, PhD, has been an integral member of the team at the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute since 2014, when she joined as an implementation specialist. She became NIRN’s assistant director in 2017 before being named as director in July 2021.
October 20, 2021
During 2006 to 2014 as a post-doc and researcher at FPG, Iheoma U. Iruka, PhD, started thinking about the need for a center dedicated to the study of Black children and families. She realized that vision soon after her return to FPG in 2020. Iruka, a research professor in the Department of Public Policy and a Faculty Fellow at FPG, is the founding director of FPG’s Equity Research Action Coalition.
October 11, 2021
A Guide to Addressing STEM Myths, which launched in June 2021, addresses and debunks misconceptions about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning experiences and opportunities for young children, including infants and toddlers and children with disabilities.
October 4, 2021
Funded with a grant of nearly $700K from the U.S. Department of Education, a team from the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute recently launched Project EXPRESS: EXamining interventions to PRomote Executive function and Social Skills.
September 30, 2021
FPG's 2021 impact report is here! In this year’s impact report, you’ll see how we continue to work with intention around our top three priorities—partnership, emphasis, and culture—as outlined in our strategic plan.
September 29, 2021
Every day we work to strengthen and accelerate the translation of research knowledge to evidence-based practices and policies. We're committed to sharing the information we generate with the public via journal articles and other resources. Check out some of our most recent implementation-related publications.
September 28, 2021
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is celebrating 50 years of excellence in technical assistance. Join us as we celebrate a half-century of OSEP-funded technical assistance excellence at FPG with three 75-minute celebratory keynote presentations and panel discussions.
September 24, 2021
Building on the success of its inaugural STEMIEFest in 2020, FPG's STEMIE Center is hosting the second annual STEMIEFest from October 4 – 8. This free, online, interactive conference offers STEM education resources and support for early childhood educators, early childhood special education practitioners, families, and others who work with young children and their families.
September 21, 2021
Senior Implementation Specialist Caryn Ward, PhD, director of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, was recently named head of the Institute's Implementation Division.
September 14, 2021
In August, Sherri Britt Williams, MPH, took the reins as lead of UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute’s (FPG’s) Technical Assistance (TA) Division, after spending three months as co-lead with her predecessor, Christina Kasprzak, PhD.
September 8, 2021
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute’s (FPG’s) Implementation Division recently wrapped up its second annual Implementation Division Summer Internship Program. The three interns of this year’s cohort reflect on their experiences.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute AFIRM for Paraprofessionals modules win Silver Award
August 30, 2021
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) won a coveted Brandon Hall Group© 2021 Silver Award for Excellence in Learning. The AFIRM for Paraprofessionals modules earned an award for Best Advance in Custom Content.
August 25, 2021
This spring, Karen Bluth, PhD, director of the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute's Program on Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Families, published her second book on mindfulness and self-compassion for teenagers in a year, this time focusing on the particular needs of teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
August 19, 2021
The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center has produced a video series about the importance of inclusion in STEM for young children, as well as a collection of resources for families to use at home.
August 4, 2021
The State Implementation and Scaling-Up of Evidence-Based Practices (SISEP) Center at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has been hard at work creating new multimedia resources for educators and implementation practitioners.
