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THE GATHERING PLACE FOR
#BRAINBUILDING COMMUNITIES

Welcome to the first edition of our brand-new monthly newsletter!

Here are our top 3 reasons to make us part of your day:

1. Fresh weekly: We feature new science-fueled content every week, spanning stellar brain-building research, Early Learning community-building efforts, policy, research and even food. Jump into rich national conversations with these series!

“5 Questions for the Mayor” (our partnership with the National League of Cities) and “5 Questions for the Governor” (our partnership with The Hunt Institute) explore what’s happening in early learning at the municipal and state levels.
“Community Cultivators” showcases interviews with top influencers, like Ken Burns and Marcus Bullock, who’ve created communities from zero-global to learn how they brought people together.

Coming Up: A four-part series on the nation’s childcare crisis, plus a report on the COVID-19 State-by-State Resource just out from The Hunt Institute.

2. We’ve launched the Progress Rating Tool (PRT) with a cool explainer video to help you gather stakeholders and create a step-by-step action plan to build a thriving Early Learning community, as you evaluate efforts and explore robust tips, lessons and resources. The PRT is the result of two years of research by the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the National League of Cities.

Visit the tool

Need stay-at-home resources?

ELN offers lots of brain-building tips, resources and activities for everyone working and teaching from home, and homeschooling, including ideas for online, offline and outdoors. We make it easy for you to build community while social distancing by chasing rainbows.

Visit our COVID-19 hub

3. Binge Alert! While we’ve curtailed our travels in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we took our mobile ELN Studio on the road to NAEYC in Nashville and to Baltimore in 2019 for the Society for Research in Child Development conference. Visit our ELN YouTube channel for all the videos with top early-childhood researchers, leaders, educators and policymakers. Have you subscribed to our YouTube channel?

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We want to hear from you!

We know there's a firehose of information out there: what's most relevant for you right now? Take our poll and tell us what interests you most.

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What we’re reading: As U.S. news outlets have eliminated education beats and education reporter positions, Chalkbeat, a nonprofit education news organization, deploys reporters across the country to cover early childhood news. Subscribe to The Starting Line, Chalkbeat’s monthly early childhood newsletter here, and peruse recent early-childhood stories here.

That's it for us; let us know what you think, and how we can best support your #brainbuilding and #communitycultivating efforts. Stay safe and well!

Linda and the entire Early Learning Nation team

Early Learning Nation is an initiative of the Bezos Family Foundation.
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