by Katie Grant | AprApr/SunSun/2018201820182018 | News & Events
Lee Henderson, Program Director of Mecklenburg Partnership for Children visited Charlotte Today on April 2nd to discuss the organization’s collaboration with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to insure every child living in Mecklenburg County has books, regardless of...
by Katie Grant | FebFeb/ThuThu/2018201820182018 | News & Events
Five simple steps for stimulating interactions with young children — at home, in daycare, or in preschool BY:Usable Knowledge Adapted from research by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard Universityand from resources developed by Filming Interactions to...
by Katie Grant | FebFeb/ThuThu/2018201820182018 | News & Events
Included in the Senate’s bipartisan budget agreement announced yesterday, is a historic $5.8 billion increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) over two years. This amount, which doubles current discretionary funding, would expand child care...
by Katie Grant | JanJan/TueTue/2017201720172017 | News & Events
The study Lead researcher Walter Gilliam knew that to get an accurate measure of implicit bias among preschool teachers, he couldn’t be fully transparent with his subjects about what, exactly, he was trying to study. Implicit biases are just that — subtle, often...
by Katie Grant | JanJan/TueTue/2017201720172017 | News & Events
In a technology-driven age, infants’ and toddlers’ exposure to “screen time” is a hot topic. As caregivers in the classroom, we may be pressured by parents who use screen media with their children at home—parents who would like us to help their children acquire...