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Guest Lecturer Dr. Heather Weiss
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McEvoy
Lecture
April 22, 2009
Prioritizing
Involvement in Building Minnesota's Early Childhood System
2:00 to 4:00pm
Pohlad Hall,
Minneapolis Library, Minneapolis, MN
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About the Lecture
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It is
widely agreed that parents are children's first and most important
teachers, and yet the focus on Minnesota's early childhood system
building has been on non-parental caregivers in early childhood
programs. Dr. Weiss summarized the research on the depth and
breadth of parents' influence on children's development. Dr.
Weiss described how complementary learning and other system-wide
approaches can help bring together parents and programs, and discussed
how we might put a dollar value on these partnerships. Drawing from
her research, teaching, and policy consultation work, Dr. Weiss
expanded the definition of early childhood to birth-seven and gave
suggestions and challenges for Minnesota's early childhood
community.
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Guest Lecturer
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Dr.
Heather Weiss is the Founder and Director of the Harvard
Family Research Project (HFRP) and is a Senior Research Associate
and Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From its
beginning in 1983, HFRP’s mission has been to support the creation
of more effective practices, interventions and policies to promote
children’s successful development from birth to adulthood. A key
emphasis of HFRP’s work is the promotion, documentation and
assessment of complementary learning—strategies that support
children’s learning and development in nonschool as well as school
contexts. Dr. Weiss and her colleagues’ current evaluation portfolio
includes evaluations of national foundation efforts to scale up
universal prekindergarten services and extended learning
opportunities. Dr. Weiss writes, speaks and advises on programs and
policies for children and families. Her recent publications focus on
reframing research and evaluation to support continuous improvement
and democratic decision making, examining the case for complementary
learning from a research and policy perspective, and assessing new
ways of providing and evaluating professional development. She
received her doctorate in Education and Social Policy from the
Harvard Graduate School of Education and she was a postdoctoral
research fellow at the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and
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Related
Resources
Harvard Family
Research Project
McEvoy Memorial Page
Mary A. McEvoy Award for Public Engagement
and Leadership
Early Childhood Policy Studies Program
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