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Janna Wagner is senior advisor and co-founder-in-residence at All Our Kin, a nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains early childhood educators in Connecticut and New York. Janna holds a B.A. in psychology from Yale University and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. In addition to her work at All Our Kin, Janna co-teaches a seminar on“Child Care, Society, and Public Policy” at Yale. Janna received the Yale Jefferson Award and was a Zero to Three Leadership Fellow, a Public Voices Fellow at Yale, and a Pahara Aspen Education Fellow. She was awarded the 2019 Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership from Teach For America. Most recently, she received the Heinz Award, which is given for “outstanding contributions to the Arts, the Economy, and the Environment.”
Storytelling is rooted in gestures, images, and shared experiences. Long before humans developed writing systems, they shared stories orally and through the images they painted on walls, structures, and pottery.
Dedicated to giving home-based, family child care educators the resources to create quality early childhood environments and run successful small businesses.
Wagner: Young kids learn through play. Requiring it provides an education that is enriching and rigorous and sets the foundation for future success.
A family child care expert shares how school leaders can benefit from working closely with a broader range of early childhood ed providers.
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The science of high quality early childhood education is clear.
On February 21, parents and advocates gathered at the capitol to testify to the legislature on the importance of Care4Kids, Connecticut's child care subsidy program, which provides critical assistance to help low-income working parents pay for child care. Since August, new parents can no longer qualify for support, unless they receive TANF dollars; under Gov.
