Early Childhood

Screen Time That Teaches and Inspires

In one episode of Lyla in the Loop, titular character Lyla learns a handful of increasingly complicated magic tricks from her elderly neighbor, Miss Emmaline. Back home in her room, Lyla, accompanied by her sidekick, Stu, tries to figure out how Miss Emmaline made her feet “levitate” behind a blanket. Keeping the key principles of […]

Tagged: Early Childhood, Nermeen Dashoush, Research, STEM, V. Scott Solberg

Shaping the Future of Early Childhood Research Policy

What is possible if early childhood policy researchers across Massachusetts work together to create a coordinated and aligned research collaborative? This is a question that participants discussed during the first day-long Massachusetts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit, held on April 2, 2025, at Wellesley College. Co-hosted by Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human […]

Tagged: Blog, Center on the Ecology of Early Development, Early Childhood, Education Policy, Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being, Kyle DeMeo Cook, Research, Wheelock Educational Policy Center