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News from the Center

April 2024

April 2024

Join our upcoming webinar Extreme Heat & Early Childhood Development: A Discussion on Rising Temperatures and Strategies for Supporting Development and Lifelong Health, on April 25 at 1 PM ET. Learn more about this event – and find additional ways to support early childhood development this upcoming Earth Day – in our April Newsletter!

Join our upcoming webinar Extreme Heat & Early Childhood Development: A Discussion on Rising Temperatures and Strategies for Supporting Development and Lifelong Health, on April 25 at 1 PM ET. Learn more about this event – and find additional ways to support early childhood development this upcoming Earth Day – in our April Newsletter!

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A Healthy Childhood in a Changing Climate

EVENT RECORDING

A Healthy Childhood in a Changing Climate

The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Education Forum recently brought together early childhood & health experts – including the Center’s Chief Science Officer, Dr. Lindsey Burghardt, and education & public health advocate, Chelsea Clinton – for a conversation on the impacts of environmental change on early childhood development. Learn more about actions to respond to, mitigate & lessen the effects of climate change and help ensure all children can get a healthy start
Photo: Jill Anderson, courtesy of HGSE.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Education Forum recently brought together early childhood & health experts – including the Center’s Chief Science Officer, Dr. Lindsey Burghardt, and education & public health advocate, Chelsea Clinton – for a conversation on the impacts of environmental change on early childhood development. Learn more about actions to respond to, mitigate & lessen the effects of climate change and help ensure all children can get a healthy start
Photo: Jill Anderson, courtesy of HGSE.

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A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children

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A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children

In March 2024, we continued our Place Matters webinar series with, “A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children,” where our panel of experts discussed how access to safe, stimulating, and joyful play space is not equally distributed and shared strategies to work toward building a future where all children have a safe place to play. In this podcast episode, we share a portion of that webinar, exploring how play and access to safe green spaces support early development.

In March 2024, we continued our Place Matters webinar series with, “A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children,” where our panel of experts discussed how access to safe, stimulating, and joyful play space is not equally distributed and shared strategies to work toward building a future where all children have a safe place to play. In this podcast episode, we share a portion of that webinar, exploring how play and access to safe green spaces support early development.

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Brain-Building Through Play

HANDOUTS

Brain-Building Through Play: Activities for Infants, Toddlers and Children

The following handout series, developed with support from the LEGO Foundation, provides suggestions for games and play-based activities based on a child’s age. The activities for younger children are designed for adults to engage in with children. Activities for later ages allow the adults to step back, enabling children’s independence to blossom as they transition to playing more often with peers.

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Working Paper 17

NEW WORKING PAPER

A World of Differences: The Science of Human Variation Can Drive Early Childhood Policies and Programs to Bigger Impacts

Introducing Working Paper 17 from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child

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Reaching for Breakthroughs with Science-Based Innovation

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The science of early childhood is a source of new ideas that could be used to develop more effective policies & services focused on the early years of life.

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Using current best practices as a starting point, the Center works with a network of fellow change agents to design, implement, and evaluate innovative, science-based practice models that achieve transformational change for vulnerable children and families.

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Innovation does not happen in a vacuum. To bring about lasting, population-level change for children facing adversity, we must foster a movement of collective change.

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