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Six ideas to ease the early intervention staffing crisis

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Eighty-seven percent of states lack enough speech language pathologists to reach all the infants and toddlers in need.

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2 Protocols to Drive Effective Schoolwide Teacher Collaboration

Edthena

If you’re supporting teacher collaboration, you won’t achieve this by adding more PLC blocks or team meetings to teachers’ schedules. This extra time is often unstructured and unproductive for educators. School leaders and administrators can enable more productive collaboration time by having teachers reflect before and after collaborating with colleagues.

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Are Local Efforts the Secret to Supporting Early Care and Education in Red States?

ED Surge

In one Idaho town , in the southeastern part of the state, families strive to “read, talk, play” with their children every day while the wider community marches toward its goal of achieving universal preschool. In another , located outside of Boise, a host of once-unavailable services — a food pantry, a Head Start preschool, a health center, and a migrant family liaison — are now housed under a single roof near the center of town, readily accessible to families in need.

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