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Attention: State and Local Education Agencies and Early Childhood Education Programs & Providers

The U.S. Department of Education is hosting a webinar series to support educational settings in safely sustaining or returning to in-person instruction. The series features lessons learned and best practices from faculty, staff, schools, districts, institutions of higher education, early childhood education providers, and other places of educational instruction describing approaches to operating during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) invites you to join the next webinar, Safe and Supportive Early Learning: Lessons Learned for the New School Year.

Please join us as we explore information from the U.S. Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and engage in a conversation about supporting young children and families access to high-quality early learning. Following brief presentations by the federal agencies, subject matter experts, including field-based practitioners, will share strategies they have found effective to support and reengage early childhood students and their caregivers through outreach and sustained connections while addressing equity and utilizing best practices in the field.

Speakers/Panelists

• Miriam Calderon: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Early Learning, U.S. Department of Education
• Lara Robinson, PhD, MPH: Behavioral Scientist, Child Development Studies Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
• Ron Herndon: Director, Albina Head Start, Portland, OR
• Jenny Le: Director, Early Childhood Education Programs, Azusa Unified School District, Azusa, CA
• Christina Weiland, PhD: Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan; Co-Director, Education Policy Initiative
• Sarah Walzer: Chief Executive Officer, ParentChild+