Early Childhood

Child Care Access in 2020: How will pending mandates affect availability in Franklin County, Ohio?

By 2020, any Ohio child care provider accepting Publicly Funded Child Care subsidies must enter into Ohio’s quality rating and improvement system. This paper examines the availability of child care and explores how this landscape may change, examining the locations most at risk for losing child care sites and highlighting possible deserts.

Sit Together and Read (STAR)

STAR Read-Aloud Practices are designed to develop and strengthen young children’s awareness of and knowledge about print. They utilize evidence-based reading techniques developed from years of research.

Scaffolding with storybooks: A guide for enhancing young children’s language & literacy achievement

This book is an essential guide for those many individuals who serve as children’s first teachers and who understand, as we do, that interactive book reading is an important context for helping children learn and develop.

Early Learning Ohio

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Take a look at one of our ongoing projects which is looking deeply into a child’s social and learning experiences with peers from preschool through third grade.

Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences (APPLE: Ohio)

The APPLE evaluation looks at the extent to which professional development for preschool teachers impacted children's language and literacy outcomes.