"Research on Young Children and Families: Launching the Next Decade of Policy and Practice"
June 21-23, 2010—Washington Marriott Wardman Hotel—Washington, DC
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Date/Time
Topic
Presenter/Author(s)
Monday, June 21
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Session: The Children of Head Start Go to Kindergarten: Findings from FACES 2006
"The Kindergarten Experiences of Head Start Children"
Lara Hulsey, Jerry West, and Lizabeth Malone
"Relationships Among Kindergarten Achievement and School Readiness Skills at the End of Head Start"
Lizabeth Malone and Emily Moiduddin
"Growth Trajectories of Head Start Children from Program Entry Through Spring of Kindergarten"
Nikki Aikens and Louisa Tarullo
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Session: Indicators and Developmental Outcomes in a Global Context
"Quality: The Next Challenge in Early Childhood Care and Education in Global Contexts"
Kimberly Boller and others
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Poster Session: Educational Policy, Issues, and Analyses
"Children in Head Start: Who Stays and Who Goes?"
Jerry West and Emily Moiduddin
Tuesday, June 22
2:45-4:30 p.m.
Session: Developmental Disparities Within the First 5 Years of Life: Gaining a Better Understanding
"Disparities in Children's Language Trajectories: The Accuracy of a Language Routing Protocol in Capturing the Heterogeneity of Preschool Dual Language Learners' Abilities"
Kathy Sonnenfeld, Susan Sprachman, Sally Atkins-Burnett, and others
Poster Symposium: Family Supports for Language, Literacy and Narratives: Studies of Diverse Aspects of Children's Early Literacy Environments as Precursors to Kindergarten Entry
"The Home Learning Environment Across the First Five Years: Trajectories, Correlates, and Outcomes at Age Five"
Eileen Rodriguez and others
4:45-6:45 p.m.
Poster Session: Prereading, Reading Skills, Language, and Literacy Development
"A Study of Peer Effects on Children's Language Development in Linguistically Diverse Preschools"
Yange Xue, Sally Atkins-Burnett, and Nikki Aikens
Wednesday, June 23
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Poster Symposium: Recent Findings from the Early Head Start Evaluation: Contributions to Child Outcomes in 5th Grade
John Love, Chair
"Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Early Head Start"
Cheri Vogel, Emily Moiduddin, Yange Xue, and others
"Contributions of Educational Experiences Since Early Head Start to Child and Family Outcomes: Findings from Nonexperimental Analyses"
Yange Xue, Emily Moiduddin, and Cheri Vogel
"Learning Environments from Infancy through Preschool: Implications for 5th Grade Academic Performance"
Eileen Rodriguez and others
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Session: Learning from Assessment: Improving the Use of Child Assessment Data in Early Childhood Programs
"The Learning from Assessment Toolkit: A Resource for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Ongoing Assessment"
Emily Moiduddin, Sally Atkins-Burnett, and Louisa Tarullo
Session: What is the Evidence for the Effectiveness of Early Childhood Intervention Programs?
"How Early Care and Education Programs 0-5 Prepare Children for Kindergarten: Is it Enough?"
John Love
Session: Evidence-Based Home Visiting: New Strategies and Tools for Advancing the Field
Diane Paulsell, Chair
"The Enhance First Steps Pilot: Formative Evaluation Strategies for Supporting Development of a Home Visiting Intervention"
Kristin Hallgren, Diane Paulsell, and Kimberly Boller
"Early Head Start Home Visiting: Understanding Content, Quality, and Frequency"
Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Cheri Vogel, Laura Kalb, and others
Session: Integration of Head Start and Early Head Start with Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Need for New Research
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