Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

Share the new insights and information you have gained from these conversations (or the podcast and Harvard website)
Describe in particular the additional information about issues of equity and excellence you acquired from your international sources

During my research on the Harvard website I read an article and looked at a video about early childhood in Brazil.

"As part of its Global Children’s Initiative, the Center launched Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância, its first major programmatic effort outside the United States. In collaboration with local experts, this project aims to use the science of child health and development to guide stronger policies and larger investments to benefit young children and their families in Brazil.

Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância is a collaboration between the Center, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of São Paulo, and Insper. This project represents a unique opportunity for the Center to work with Brazilian scholars, policymakers, and civil society leaders to adapt the Center’s programmatic model for the local context in order to catalyze more effective policies and programs that will, ultimately, foster a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable society.

Together, these organizations engage in the following activities:

Building a scientific agenda and community of scholars around early childhood development;
Synthesizing and translating scientific knowledge for application to social policy. This will include working with the Center’s longtime partner organization, Frameworks Institute, to effectively communicate the science of child development in the Brazilian cultural context;
Strengthening leadership around early childhood development through an executive leadership course for policymakers;
Translating and adapting the Center’s existing print and multimedia resources for a Brazilian audience."

The article was very insightful.


Applying the Science of Early Childhood in Brazil






This week, I spoke with my best Oyinda who is an educator in Cairo, Egypt. She discussed the importance of have a common standards in our field and how it varies from city to city , from state to state, and country.
It was interesting hearing about the differences in the cultures and practices in the Egypt.




Ashley Wilkins-Miller