Global Children's Initiative
Early Childhood Systems Around the Globe
Un Buen Comienzo "A Good Start"
This program began in 2007 in Santiago, Chile. The purpose of the program is to improve early childhood education by providing professional development for teachers. The project also focuses on health issues in the hopes of improving school attendance.
The Zambian Early Childhood Development Project
Zambian Ministry of Education, the Examination Council of Zambia,
UNICEF, the University of Zambia, and the Center on the Developing Child
at Harvard University launched the Zambian Early Childhood Development
Project (ZECDP) in 2009, in an effort to measure the effects
of an ongoing anti-malaria initiative on children’s development in
Zambia. to assess children’s physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive
development before and throughout their schooling careers. This was the first assessment tool of its kind in Zambia.
Brazil
Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância is a collaboration between the Center, the
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard
University, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of São Paulo, and Insper. This project
represents a unique opportunity for the Center to work with Brazilian
scholars, policymakers, and civil society leaders to adapt the Center’s
programmatic model for the local context in order to catalyze more
effective policies and programs that will, ultimately, foster a more
prosperous, sustainable, and equitable society.
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ReplyDeleteI saw this on the site but went on my own tangent and was caught up with the information about executive functions with children. Thank you for staying on track and posting this information.
Hi Shawn! It's so funny that you said that. I almost did that one too because I thought it was interesting. But I chickened out.. LOL I'm going to check your blog and see what you said about executive functioning. :-) Look for ward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteI do think what Harvard is doing with the Global Initiative and I feel it is well over do. Thanks for sharing the specifics of the programs that are in place in various countries. It is good that we are reaching across boundaries helping others in ECE create, improve, or advance their programs when working with young learners. But, I also hope we are learning from them as well and that they don't lose their identity in the process.
ReplyDeleteI like what the Brazilian project is working towards. I like the fact that this project aim is to use the science of child health and development to guide them in implementing stronger policies to benefit young children. That is important looking at what science is saying about children's health and development and making it a part of the decision making process.
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