Our impact

Our work positively impacts school culture, classroom effectiveness and student skills for learning, helping schools build a positive environment that accelerates student development and academic achievement.

A growing body of research shows that early childhood experiences during the first 5 years can have a significant impact on whether a student is adequately prepared for school.  Children who score poorly in  cognitive and non-cognitive skills before entering kindergarten are likely to do less well in school and more likely to become teen parents, to engage in crime, and to be unemployed as adults. High-quality early childhood programs can reduce grade-level retention and special education placement while increasing school achievement and social skills. 

How We Measure Success

Our evaluation framework includes an extensive set of metrics mapped to our work. These measures include treatment outcomes, classroom observations, behavioral data and student surveys of learning attributes, such as self-regulation.

What Schools and Communities are learning:

 

  • The strongest and most consistent predictors of readiness are when:
  • Children were observed to be well (not being hungry, tired, or ill)
  • Children were older, female, from higher income families, and whose maternal education was higher
  • Children were without special needs and who were not born with a low birth weight 
  • Children had attended preschool (especially in Kindergarten Academics and Self-Care & Motor Skills, but not necessarily in social-emotional readiness domains)

 

Families reported more positive attitudes toward parenting Our work positively impacts school culture, classroom effectiveness and student skills for learning, helping schools build a positive environment that accelerates student development and academic achievement. A growing body of research shows that early childhood experiences during the first 5 years can have a significant impact on whether a student is adequately prepared for school.

Children who score poorly in cognitive and non-cognitive skills before entering kindergarten are likely to do less well in school and more likely to become teen parents, to engage in crime, and to be unemployed as adults. High-quality early childhood programs can reduce grade-level retention and special education placement while increasing school achievement and social skills.

How We Measure Success

Our evaluation framework includes an extensive set of metrics mapped to our work. These measures include treatment outcomes, classroom observations, behavioral data and student surveys of learning attributes, such as self-regulation.

What Schools and Communities are learning:

The strongest and most consistent predictors of readiness are when: Children were observed to be well (not being hungry, tired, or ill) Children were older, female, from higher income families, and whose maternal education was higher Children were without special needs and who were not born with a low birth weight Children had attended preschool (especially in Kindergarten Academics and Self-Care & Motor Skills, but not necessarily in social-emotional readiness domains) Families reported more positive attitudes toward parenting