The early years of a child’s education are among the most critical for learning. From training teachers to cultivating partnerships across Virginia and beyond, UVA EHD is deeply engaged in how to improve education for our littlest learners.
UVA EHD’s innovations in assessing and supporting young learners are used in thousands of classrooms across the country.
EHD's suite of assessments that measures how prepared a child is for kindergarten is now in every single kindergarten classroom in both Virginia and Louisiana.
Literacy screenings developed at UVA EHD have become the gold standard for the reading assessment of PreK-3rd grade students.
Now available as a low- to no-cost option for all publicly funded early childhood classrooms in Virginia, STREAMin³ is a comprehensive curriculum model for birth to five that seamlessly blends a focus on academic and social-emotional learning.
New ways to communicate could keep preschoolers with challenging behaviors in classrooms, a UVA researcher says.
Ready for the next step? Explore a selection of programs related to early childhood education.
