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Lessons from Somerville: How to build a strong and sustainable early childhood system

Posted in Cost and affordability, COVID-19, Family engagement, Funding, MA state budget, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, Philanthropy, Pre-kindergarten, tagged , , , on February 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Somerville, Mass., has spent years building a strong foundation for its early education and care programs. Now, a case study – One Somerville, Every Child — explores how Somerville has used a three-year (2019-2022), $1 million grant from the Commonwealth Children’s Fund to make vital progress that will support young children and families – and […]

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Leading the Way: Kretcha Roldan’s work in Somerville

Posted in Demographics, Early educators, Family engagement, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, National, Pre-kindergarten, Professional development & preparation on April 19, 2018| 2 Comments »

“Leading the Way,” is a series featuring the next generation of leaders in the field of early education and care. Kretcha Roldan has spent her career combining social work and education. That’s what she loved about her job as executive director of AVANCE, a nonprofit organization in Waco, Texas, that runs a two-generation education and […]

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Ready to Go: Somerville

Posted in Curriculum, Early educators, Funding, MA state budget, Pre-kindergarten on March 3, 2017| 2 Comments »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. Somerville serves only about 45 percent of the 4-year-olds who could potentially enroll in preschool. Our Preschool Expansion Strategic Planning Grant inspired us to develop a three-year plan that builds upon existing partnerships and adds 108 additional seats in a mixed-delivery system. To do this […]

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Somerville Launches a New Website to Promote Its Early Education and Care Resources

Posted in Achievement gap, Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early Learning Challenge, Family engagement, Multimedia, Pre-K to 3, Pre-kindergarten on December 1, 2014| 1 Comment »

Somerville has a cool new early childhood website: SomervilleHub.org. Produced by the Somerville Early Education Steering Committee, the website helps “connect local families with young children to the full range of information and resources they need to raise healthy, active children from birth to age 8,” a press release explains. The wide range of information […]

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Somerville Report Calls for Universal Kindergarten Readiness System

Posted in Family engagement, Pre-kindergarten, Social-emotional development on March 4, 2014| 3 Comments »

All children should be able to enter kindergarten ready to learn and succeed. However the path to kindergarten readiness begins long before the pre-kindergarten year. A new report commissioned by Somerville’s schools, the City and the School Committee recognizes this and recommends going beyond providing early education for four-year-olds to “establish an innovative early childhood […]

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“Starting at Zero,” an important new film about early education

Posted in Massachusetts Cities and Towns, National, Pre-kindergarten, Strategies for Children, tagged , on June 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »

In case you missed it, here’s a recap of yesterday’s virtual screening of “Starting from Zero: Reimagining Education in America.” As we’ve blogged, the film is “an exciting exploration of the value and potential of early education and care programs.” The film looks at “Key features of high-quality early childhood learning environments and experiences are […]

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“First Years Tour” – get to know your newly elected state legislators

Posted in Child care, COVID-19, Early educators, MA Legislature, Pre-kindergarten, Strategies for Children on February 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »

  We are delighted to launch our “First Years Tour.” It’s an event that Strategies for Children does every two years, going to the State House and meeting with the new class of just elected, “first year” state legislators. We congratulate them on becoming state leaders, and we run an early education 101 crash course. […]

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COVID-19’s economic impact on women

Posted in Business and economy, Child care, COVID-19, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, Research on October 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »

  COVID-19 is taking a huge economic toll on women. The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women (MCSW) explains how in a new report, “Child Care and Education During COVID-19: A Report on the Economic and Social Impact on Women in Massachusetts.” “We are hearing about – and many of us are experiencing – […]

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Engaging families with young children – Part II: COVID-19 adaptations

Posted in COVID-19, Dept. of Early Education and Care, Family engagement, Infants and toddlers, Massachusetts Cities and Towns on August 6, 2020| Leave a Comment »

  What do families with young children want? As we blogged last week, the Massachusetts Partnership for Infants and Toddlers (MPIT) conducted a statewide survey that asked this question and collected feedback from more than 1,200 families. MPIT is a collaboration of 40+ organizations and family engagement specialists. The survey results were, however, collected, before COVID-19 […]

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Letter to the Massachusetts Delegation of the U.S. Congress

Posted in Child care, COVID-19, Federal, Funding, NAEYC, National, Pre-kindergarten, Strategies for Children on August 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »

July 29, 2020 Dear Members of our Congressional Delegation: Thank you for your efforts to support the needs of the Commonwealth’s residents as we continue to confront the myriad challenges caused by the pandemic. We write today in appreciation of your demonstrated commitment to early education and care and to request that you each do […]

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