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Building Core Capabilities for Life

This 5-minute video explores the development and use of core capabilities — known as executive function and self-regulation skills — from early childhood into adolescence and adulthood.

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WORKING PAPER

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Understanding Motivation

A complex set of intertwined social and biological factors influences people’s motivation to participate actively and productively in society. This Working Paper explains the science behind motivation and how motivation systems develop.

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TESTIMONY

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Migrant Family Separation Congressional Testimony: Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.

This guide for practitioners explains the science behind our core life skills, what affects their development, and how practitioners can help.

"Forcibly separating children from their parents is like setting a house on fire. Prolonging that separation is like preventing the first responders from doing their job."

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INFOGRAPHIC

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What is Epigenetics? And How Does it Relate to Child Development?

This guide for practitioners explains the science behind our core life skills, what affects their development, and how practitioners can help.

In this infographic, learn about the science behind genes and their interaction with children's experiences—nature and nurture—and how these interactions affect child development.

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INFOGRAPHIC

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What is Executive Function? And How Does it Relate to Child Development?

This guide for practitioners explains the science behind our core life skills, what affects their development, and how practitioners can help.

This infographic explains what executive function skills are, how they're built, and why they matter.

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TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

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Science-Based Innovation Training

Join us on June 4, 2019 in Cambridge, MA to learn strategies for building better programs that achieve greater outcomes for more young children and families.

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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.

Our Innovation Model | Innovation in Action

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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.

Browse Key Concepts | Learning Communities in Action

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