Recently Funded Projects

  • Supporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina (SCRIPT-NC)
    Early childhood educators (ECE) work with young children with disabilities as well as children from diverse backgrounds to support learning and development. It is critical for ECEs to be adequately prepared to serve children who are linguistically, culturally, and ability-diverse. The purpose of this project is to work with early childhood community college programs in North Carolina to enhance and redesign courses to better prepare ECEs to work with children with disabilities and children from diverse backgrounds.
  • Head Start Impacts Before and After the Transition to Kindergarten: The Moderating Role of Kindergarten Classroom and School Contexts in Eastern North Carolina
    This dissertation study aims to identify characteristics of kindergarten classroom and elementary school contexts that contribute to Head Start children’s continued learning across the transition to school in order to inform policymaking related to this topic, both in the state of North Carolina and nationally.
  • National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning
    The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is partnering with ZERO TO THREE to support the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning through four major activities: 1) building implementation science capacity; 2) designing and supporting a performance evaluation; 3) providing cross-sector partnership and leadership with activities conducted by the National Center; and 4) providing content area expertise.

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