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Following the Early Education Initiative’s “Before Birth and Up Through Third Grade” policy forum on March 2, we launched an  to continue the rich conversations that began that day.

This week in that space, Sharon Ritchie, the director of First School, shares a resource for creating  for young children and their families and poses a question about what  to work with children PreK-3^rd grade.

We encourage you to log on and respond to Ritchie’s posts or to respond to one of the questions posed by individuals during the live forum:

• How do we  to support birth-through-age-8 services?
• What is the operational cost of  funding to sustain programs?
• What needs to be done to ?
• What  are needed to support quality in educational standards and curricula?
• What are the  that the workforce needs at each of these levels (working with infants and toddlers, pre-kindergartners, kindergartners, and children in the first, second and third grades)?
• How might we build a  toward advancement in careers in teaching and leading?
• What incentives are out there to  specialization in early childhood?
• How do we assess and ?

You can also start your own discussion.

The online forum is organized around topics like funding, teacher quality, family engagement, and more. Early Ed Watch hopes it can become a useful resource and gathering spot for interested parties at the local, state and federal level. We invite you to join the discussion. You can do so by creating a login at .

Hope to see you