April 22, 2009 Lecture:
Prioritizing
Involvement in Building Minnesota's Early Childhood System
Heather Weiss, Ph.D., Founder and Director, Harvard Family
Research Project; Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
Video presentation.
November 5, 2008 Lecture:
Reducing Racial and Social Class Gaps in School Readiness:
What we know and what we need to learn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor
of Child Development at Teachers College and the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Video presentation.
March 14, 2008 Lecture:
Connecting Early Childhood to K-12
Panel of State Legislators; Moderator Charlie Kyte, Executive
Director, Minnesota Association of School Administrators.
Audio presentation.
September 13, 2007 Lecture:
Quality in Early Child Care & Education:
It's All About Relationships
Byron Egeland, Ph.D., Irving
B. Harris Professor of Child Development, University of
Minnesota. Robert Pianta, Ph.D.,
is Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of
Virginia.
Video presentation.
March 23, 2007 Lecture:
Minnesota Policies for Closing Early Gaps
Panel of Minnesota State Legislators
Video presentation.
February
16, 2007 Lecture:
Understanding School Readiness Gaps: SES, Race, and Ethnicity
Kathryn Magnuson, University of
Wisconsin--Madison.
Video Presentation.
May 19, 2006 Lecture:
Focus on Universal Preschool
Libby Doggett, the National Director of Pre-K
Now outlines how states design, fund,
and implement universal preschool and
whether it might be appropriate for
Minnesota.
Audio presentation.
