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Early Childhood Center

The mission of the Early Childhood Center is to advance early education practices that welcome, include, and bring about successful school readiness practices for all children. To implement our mission, we work to link research and practice in advancing the field of early education by providing leadership and assistance to agencies, organizations, and communities serving all young children (birth through five years), including children with disabilities, and their families.

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Michael Conn-Powers

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Congrats to Pat Cole and her new article

Pat Cole, a former Research Associate at the Early Childhood Center, has recently co-authored a journal article, Assessing Indiana's health and safety in early care and education programs: Identifying areas for improvement. The research that Pat reports on was conducted during her time here managing the Indiana Child Care Health Consultant Program. Congratulations, Pat.

New study to look at Indiana's early education classrooms

  Hi all. We have received approval to begin a new study looking at early education classrooms throughout Indiana. We are hoping to compare Indiana's efforts with other states that have a history of supporting preschool/prekindergarten. We are also hoping to collect information that will help state and local decision makers to identify collective strengths and areas needing improvement across multiple program types, including Head Start, licensed child care centers, public school prekindergartens, and NAEYC-accredited preschool programs. Check out the new link in our menu bar on the left- Assessing Early Education in Indiana.