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  • Early Childhood Education

This report uses administrative data to track the experiences of over 1000 child care teachers who began working towards the ECAC between 2016 and 2018.

In this report, we present information about a newly developed, comprehensive, and integrated curriculum, STREAMin3, and findings from a pilot evaluation of this curriculum. STREAMin3 was designed for educators’ use in group-based settings serving children from birth to age five.

As part of a research-policy partnership, we conducted the first randomized controlled trial testing the impacts of financial incentives on teacher turnover in ECE settings.

Since 2019, Virginia has been piloting the Teacher Recognition Program (TRP), a financial incentive program aimed at supporting early educators and reducing turnover.

This report describes teacher turnover over an eight-month period in a sample of over 1,000 Virginia child care teachers.

This report describes child care leaders’ staffing challenges during the COVID pandemic using data from a Fall 2020 survey of 262 Virginia child care leaders.

  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

We studied parent and child gendered beliefs about toy types and screen media. Parents had stereotypical gender beliefs for spatial/non-spatial toys but not media. Children claimed their own gender is better at and prefers all toy types. Parents rated screen media as less educational than physical toys.

Jamie Jirout spoke about promoting students’ curiosity at an education conference, Learning & the Brain: Teaching Purposeful Brains