Head Start's 9th National Research Conference — Creating Connections: Linking Policy, Practice and Research across Early Childhood Development, Care and Education
June 23, 2008 (All day) to June 25, 2008 (All day)
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
HSRC9 emphasized ways that practitioners, researchers, administrators, and policy makers involved in Head Start, early childhood, childcare, and administration programs can work together to build research-to-practice connections that promote positive development in young children. The conference also addressed competencies for early childhood educators, development of language and literacy in second-language learners, the influence of research on policies affecting children, and emotion regulation and learning.
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- HSRC9 Program (1.2 MB)
- Competencies and Credentials for Early Childhood Educators: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know? (484.86 KB)
- Competencies and Credentials for Early Childhood Educators: Next Steps for Leadership (111.91 KB)
- Report of the NLP: Studies of Instruction (283.16 KB)
- Report of the NLP: Language of Instruction Studies (359.76 KB)
- Report of the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth (278.19 KB)
- Prevention Research and Policy-Making: Opportunities and Lessons Learned (737.37 KB)
- Culture, public policy and young children’s development: The case of children of undocumented urban immigrants (515.33 KB)
- Cognitive Control (Executive Functions) in Young Children: Relevance of what we know to what can be done to help children (773.36 KB)
- Temperament and the Development of Self- Regulation (939.37 KB)
- More than Workshops, Websites, and Syntheses (2.73 MB)
- Curricula and Instructional Practices (170.52 KB)
- English Language Learners (135.62 KB)
- Health, Nutrition and Safety (133.04 KB)
- Parent-Child Interactions (292.45 KB)
- Professional Development/Knowledge (168.67 KB)
- Socio-Emotional Development (221.52 KB)