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From left, Lisa Knoche, Greg Welch, Iheoma Iruka, Mark DeKraai, Susan Sheridan and Jim Bovaird
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Early Learning Network Lead
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Susan Sheridan
Co-Principal Investigators: Lisa Knoche
Funding Information
Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Award Date: Jun 1, 2016
End Date: May 31, 2023
Abstract
The Network Lead will provide a dynamic and intentional suite of coordination, collaboration, and communication activities that extend the impacts of the entire Early Learning Network and help advance our ability to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged children as they transition from preschool through Grade 3.
Our goal as Network Lead is to provide a comprehensive suite of activities that (a) enhance the impact of individual and collaborative efforts across the Research and Assessment Teams and (b) create a variety of pathways that effectively transfer the Network’s findings and products to practice communities and policy contexts.
To achieve our goal for the Network, we will:
- Provide the technical and programmatic leadership and administrative infrastructure needed to ensure the Early Learning Network functions efficiently and effectively in support of the Institute’s goals for early learning from preschool through the early elementary grades.
- Implement a suite of Network-wide activities that (a) create a collaborative research environment and provide meaningful opportunities for members of the Research and Assessment Teams to interact around established and emerging research, (b) provide support and technical assistance to recipients of Preschool Development Grants and (c) advance the professional development and research training of postdoctoral research associates and graduate and undergraduate students.
- Develop an integrated communications and engagement strategy to facilitate broad dissemination, promotion, and uptake of the Network’s findings, evidence-based tools and strategies, and best-practice recommendations across the range of early childhood education stakeholder communities, including school-based practitioners (e.g., PDG grantees and other practitioner audiences), other researchers, and policymakers.
Rural Education & Communities, Early Education & Development
From left, Lisa Knoche, Greg Welch, Iheoma Iruka, Mark DeKraai, Susan Sheridan and Jim Bovaird
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Project WebsitesMeet the Early Learning Network Research Teams: Ohio State University
Meet the Early Learning Network Research Teams: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Meet the Early Learning Network Research Teams: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meet the Early Learning Network Research Teams: University of Virginia
