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The Shaping Us Framework - CFEC

I'm honored (or "honoured," perhaps?) to have been a part of the Advisory Group for this amazing report on social-emotional skills, which was released yesterday by the Royal Foundation of the Prince & Princess of Wales. Can you guess my favorite skillset?

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U-M’s Education Policy Initiative launches project to boost early learning success with new curriculum readiness measure To improve early learning programs nationwide, policymakers and funders are investing in curriculum, professional development, and assessments. However, ensuring educational partners are well-prepared...

High-quality curricula can move the needle on early learning, but implementation varies widely.

We’re excited to start 2025 off with a new effort to systematically measure implementation readiness & target supports at baseline:

fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/u-...

Concurrent validity of scores from phone-based caregiver reports on early childhood development: Evidence from the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 implementation in Nepal The Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) is a caregiver-reported tool designed to monitor progress toward Sustainable Development Goal ta…

Very cool paper from Kenji Kitamura and co-authors estimating #ECD status with telephone vs. in-person interviews. Using @unicef.org #ECDI203 in Nepal, they find similar results across (randomly assigned) modality. Phone interviews are a reasonable approach!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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All credit goes to @seiden.bsky.social for the amazing figures in this paper