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This headline from The Onion might give you a chuckle… but the truth is that millions of children actually do fall behind by age 4. Not as elite athletes - but experientially and developmentally, during the years most critical to their long term academic & life success.🧵 
That achievement gap that we’re persistently trying to close in our schools? It’s already well established when children enter kindergarten - created by opportunity gaps during the years of #earlychildhood.
How early do these gaps open? At least one study began measuring disparities in development as early as 9 months of age. childtrends.org/news-release/t…
If your state is looking to improve the lives of children & strengthen its #earlychildhood systems, the question to ask is: How do we compare to New Mexico? Below I’ll unpack just a few of the recent reforms that have catapulted the state to model status. 🧵
Because this is a story about change, it’s important to begin with a little context about the very real needs driving action. New Mexico has been persistently challenged on measures of child wellbeing, ranked 50th in the nation by @aecfkidscount as recently as this year.
But this data (which can lag several years in its reporting) really tells more about the impetus for change than it provides a real-time look at what’s happening on the ground. What is the state doing to address it? The better question might be what aren’t they doing?
Starting with hearing from some of our sponsors including @AlecGarnett and @EmilyForCO - she is talking about HB22-1295 “this particular stakeholder process has been going on for years, and concludes decades of process”
#EarlyChildhoodEducation #copolitics
#EarlyChildhoodEducation #copolitics
“We are now building and strengthening a mixed delivery and preschool opportunities if trampolines want it” says @EmilyForCO “there is no better time then to get this right” #EarlyChildhoodEducation #HB221295 #betterbeginnings #copolitics
“This is the biggest bill I will ever carry - figuratively and literally” says @EmilyForCO
The bill is near hundreds of pages long.
Can’t wait for all these testimonies from parents and providers! #copolitics #coleg #EarlyChildhoodEducation
The bill is near hundreds of pages long.
Can’t wait for all these testimonies from parents and providers! #copolitics #coleg #EarlyChildhoodEducation
🔔Keep up with this thread as House Education begins hearing HB22-1295 on the state Department of #EarlyChildhood and #UniversalPreK! #COleg #COpolitics
We'll be providing live coverage of the hearing & testimony. Tune in here: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00327/Harmony/…
We'll be providing live coverage of the hearing & testimony. Tune in here: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00327/Harmony/…
@AlecGarnett says HB22-1295 will bridge fragmented programs to create seamless #earlychildhood experiences for all #Colorado families.
It will save parents money, enroll more kids in the high-quality programs that we know work, all while being easy to access.#COleg
It will save parents money, enroll more kids in the high-quality programs that we know work, all while being easy to access.#COleg
@EmilyForCO -- "The quality of a child’s early experiences can either positively or negatively impact their life outcomes."
Current #earlychildhood programs are spread across different departments with different eligibility requirements and funding streams. #COleg
Current #earlychildhood programs are spread across different departments with different eligibility requirements and funding streams. #COleg
Here we go! Press conference with @GovofCO and advocates and Michael Cook, @EmilyForCO and others like @ColoradoKidsOrg @ColoradoEPIC @garycommunity @dpp_org and so many others!
#coleg #copolitics
#coleg #copolitics
The new EC depart will make the #EarlyChildhood system easier for families, advocates and providers in the state. “This legislation will have a positive ripple effect’” says @GovofCO
“We are delivering for Coloradan families” says @AlecGarnett as he speaks about his 3 children and how we need more education providers HB22-1279 serves these families! #copolitics #coleg
TOP TIPS TO REDUCE STRESS 🙏 {Thread}
Today's #MiindfulMonday tip is one the family can try.
We carry tension, anxiety, worry in our bodies. Read the comments below 👇 to bring yourself out your thinking mind & loosen the load on your body.
Now tell us how you feel? 👇👇
Today's #MiindfulMonday tip is one the family can try.
We carry tension, anxiety, worry in our bodies. Read the comments below 👇 to bring yourself out your thinking mind & loosen the load on your body.
Now tell us how you feel? 👇👇
#TopTip 1.
#TopTip 2.
#StokesSchool is 100% virtual RN and we will continue online learning this SY. We are proud of how our teachers and scholars adapted to online learning. Learn more today ⬇️⬇️
Student government surveyed all scholars about what aspects we should continue when we return in person. #remotelearning #virtuallearning #studentgovernment #studentagency #useyourvoice @padlet @zearned @Seesaw @dcpave @dcpavevoices
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Guaranteeing Universal Early Childhood Education
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child, no matter where they live.
Only one party understands that a quality education is a critical public good-NOT a commodity. A quality education is the right of every child, no matter where they live.
#Democrats believe that all children across the United States should have access to high-quality early childhood education programs. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform #EduPolicy #UniversalPreSchool
#Democrats will work with states to offer pre-K for all three- and four-year-olds and expand Head Start and Early Head Start. 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform #HeadStart #UniversalPreschool
The Unity Task Force set #democratic policy & legislative goals on #ClimateChange, healthcare, the economy & #jobs, criminal justice, education, & #immigration. vox.com/21317850/joe-b…
@AOC & @JohnKerry chaired Unity Task Force on the #ClimateCrisis. It set a national goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for all new buildings by 2030 & eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035, in addition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
"I think we actually made far more progress than I think I even anticipated,” Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash told Vox, because many of the advisers on #ClimateChange nominated by #Biden were "equally amenable to ambitious action as many people on the #Bernie side.”
“Instead of centering my identity as a clinical psychologist I chose to center my identity as a neighbor” - Dr. Alison Pinto
This led her to insights on the relationships & social networks that exist beyond the parent-child dyad.
#NextChapterForum
This led her to insights on the relationships & social networks that exist beyond the parent-child dyad.
#NextChapterForum
Where can pediatric primary care providers JOIN in where children & families are already in the LEAD?
“Much like de-centralizing whiteness, I’m talking about de-centralizing professionalism” - Dr. Allison Pinto
#NextChapterForum
“Much like de-centralizing whiteness, I’m talking about de-centralizing professionalism” - Dr. Allison Pinto
#NextChapterForum
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This is key to not only #EarlyChildhood but also addressing implicit bias broadly.
We have to disrupt the power imbalance to really breakdown the biases we carry about those who have a different lived experience than our own.
#NextChapterForum
This is key to not only #EarlyChildhood but also addressing implicit bias broadly.
We have to disrupt the power imbalance to really breakdown the biases we carry about those who have a different lived experience than our own.
#NextChapterForum
Just finished reading “Educated” by Tara Westover. Fascinating. Best book I have read in a long time. Really questioning my beliefs how education should look like and underscoring my experience that education can both (a) empower you and (b) alienate you. Highly recommended read.
1/ Have taken a pause to think carefully about what to say – what can be said – about the framing that can best help #KeepFamiliesTogether. Ready to share now.
2/ There remains much work to be done; the meaning-making work is part of it. Our framing in this moment will determine whether bystander publics – people who don’t yet have a firm stance - get engaged. Today's frames can clear, (or clutter) the path toward meaningful change.
3/ From a social movements perspective, it’s to our advantage to find a frame that builds understanding of #FamilySeparation writ large: at the border, in communities affected by parental incarceration, in conflict zones. More here: bit.ly/2K4FtKM - thanks to @AECFNews
