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New Crane Policy Chat: Child care in rural communities (Zoom)

Join us for our first Crane Policy Chat, a one-hour conversation with an expert guest who will share insights, research, or expertise on relevant policy issues in early childhood.

Our first policy chat will feature Dr. Shoshanah Inwood, associate professor of rural sociology at OSU, who will join us for a virtual conversation and Q&A about the recent U.S. Farm Bill and rural child care challenges. This major federal legislation defines the nation’s food production policy and federal assistance for farmers, and its inclusion of child care as a priority is historic. If passed, the bill will open access to rural child care options for U.S. farmers and could pave the way for future proposals to prioritize child care.

Dr. Inwood, a former farmer herself, will share her research that brought this issue to the forefront and how she helped the U.S. Congress understand its importance. This conversation will be facilitated with Jamie O’Leary, Crane’s associate director of policy and external affairs.

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Fall 2023 By the Numbers Discussion Series: School Punishment By the Numbers

Friday, November 17, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Daniel Losen, National Center for Youth Law

Title: School Punishment By the Numbers

Please join Dr. Daniel Losen, Director of Education at the National Center for Youth Law, for a discussion of recent findings regarding school punishment.

Please read the following Census report authored by Dr. Losen before attending the event:

 

Dr. Daniel Losen

Bio

Daniel J. Losen is the Senior Director for the Education team at the National Center for Youth Law and contributes to the organization’s efforts in the area of education on behalf of all students, especially children of color and others that have historically been discriminated against. Dan’s work includes promoting resource equity, the Honest Education campaign, and fighting against the school-to-prison pipeline at the national state and local levels. Dan oversees staffing for the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a National Center for Youth Law initiative that conducts research relevant to civil rights concerns, and engages in direct advocacy for systemic education reforms at the national, state, and local levels.

Dan came to the National Center for Youth Law with over 23 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer and education researcher as the Director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA’s Civil Rights Project. Dan is the author of several books and award winning reports addressing the racially disparate impact of education policies regarding: special education; school discipline; and accountability for graduation rates of students of color.  Regarded as a national expert on these topics, Dan has also testified about racial inequities in education before the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, the National Academies of Science, and the U.S. Commission on Civil and Human Rights. As a consultant, Dan has provided technical assistance to numerous states and school districts. Dan has also served as an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, and was a public school teacher for 10 years before entering law school.

When Dan is not working, he can be found playing his sax at a local bar, photographing owls at dusk, or surfcasting for stripers by the light of the moon ’til dawn.

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Crane Research Forum (Zoom)

Big Little Leap: Challenges and Possibilities in the Kindergarten Transition:

The transition to kindergarten can present significant challenges to young children, given that many are transitioning for the first time into a formal school environment with specific rules and routines. In this presentation, Dr. Laura Justice and Dr. Kelly Purtell will provide a theoretical framework for understanding the kindergarten transition, detail distinctive differences in preschool and kindergarten settings, and define the common challenges that children face in their transition. Additionally, they will also present findings from the Kindergarten Transition Practices (KTP) study, a federally funded randomized controlled trial in which a kindergarten-transition program for facilitating kindergarten transition practices was experimentally tested. Hear insights on the KTP study, including what was learned, what challenges were faced, and where to go from here.

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The Ethics of Research on Pregnant Participants

Virtual Panel

The research community is undergoing a hard-fought cultural shift from exclusion to inclusion of pregnant participants in clinical research. This panel will discuss what equitable inclusion of pregnant participants should look like and whether ethical considerations related to researching pregnant people have changed in light of the growing political restrictions to reproductive healthcare.

 

Featured Panelists:

·         Dr. Anne Drapkin Lyerly (Professor of Social Medicine and Research Professor OBGYN, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill)

·         Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson (Associate Professor College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, OSU)

 

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Crane Lecture Series: Dr. Valora Washington

Every two years the Crane Lecture Series brings a high-profile, nationally known speaker to Columbus, Ohio to inspire and engage us on a key early childhood or education topic. This year, Dr. Valora Washington, President & CEO of The CAYL Institute, will describe challenges and opportunities facing the early childhood workforce; challenge our thinking about how we advocate for children and families; and share how other states are tackling workforce challenges and better supporting early childhood educators. Dr. Washington will leave us with actionable solutions for anyone working in early care, education, research, or advocacy. Join us on Wednesday, March 29 from 4-6pm at the Columbus Museum of Art for this (free) motivational and meaningful event, made better by your voice and perspective. The one-hour lecture will be followed by a reception where you will have the opportunity to connect with others and to meet Dr. Washington.

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Special Event: Dr. Moria Szilaygi

Join the Crane Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital for a special event on childhood trauma and resilience featuring Dr. Moria Szilagyi, immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She will discuss childhood trauma and resilience and the need to coordinate between systems of care through a trauma-informed lens.

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QMC Spring 2023 By the Numbers Events: Childhood Poverty & Inflation By the Numbers (Zoom)

Friday, March 3, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Kalee Burns, U.S. Census Bureau

Title: By the Numbers: Childhood Poverty & Inflation By the Numbers

Please join Dr. Kalee Burns, who is an Economist for the U.S. Census, for a discussion of recent findings published by the Census regarding childhood poverty.

Please read the following Census report authored by Dr. Burns before attending the event:

Census Report: Child Poverty Fell to Record Low 5.2% in 2021

Dr. Kalee Burns

Dr. Kalee Burns

Bio

Dr. Kalee Burns is an economist  at the Poverty Statistics Branch within the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Burns completed her Ph.D.  in Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Dr. Burns has authored and co-authored research articles on the Supplemental Poverty Measure in the U.S., migration constraints and job opportunities, social capital and entrepreneurship, and gentrification and amenities.

Her research interests include Urban and Regional Economics and Labor Economics.

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QMC Spring 2023 By the Numbers Events: Youth Homelessness & Intervention Findings (Zoom)

Friday, February 10, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Natasha Slesnick & Dr. Tansel Yilmazer, Ohio State University

Title: By the Numbers: Youth Homelessness & Intervention Findings

Please join Dr. Natasha Slesnick, Professor of Human Development and Family Science, & Dr. Tanzel Yilmazer, Associate Professor of Consumer Sciences, for a discussion of recent findings regarding youth homelessness.

Bio

Dr. Natasha Slesnick

Dr. Natasha Slesnick is a professor of Human Development and Family Science in the Department of Human Sciences, and EHE Associate Dean for Research and Administration. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and her research focuses on intervention development and evaluation with substance using homeless youth and substance using mothers and their children. She has consulted with multiple organizations on the best strategies for intervening in youth homelessness and adolescent substance use. She has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1998 and has written more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and books.

Dr. Tanzel Yilmazer

Dr. Tanzel Yilmazer is an associate professor of Consumer Sciences in the Department of Human Sciences at Ohio State University. She is an economist specializing in applied microeconomics, health economics and policy. Her recent research is devoted to understanding the economic cost of interventions and the impact of health-related policies on physical and mental health outcomes among vulnerable populations. Dr. Yilmazer received the Emerging Scholar Award from the AAFCS and the ACCI Mid-Career Award. She is the editor of Review of the Economics of the Household and associate editor of Financial Planning Review. Her research has been funded by World Bank, National Institutes of Health, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, and Social Security Administration.

 

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Developmental brain imaging of human cognition Webinar

Join us for the November Crane Research Forum with Dr. Zeynep Saygin, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University.

How does uniquely human cognition emerge in the brain? The developmental cognitive neuroscience laboratory at OSU uses noninvasive brain imaging (MRI) to study newborns, infants, and young children before and as they start school. Dr. Zeynep Saygin will discuss recent studies on how individual variability in language, executive function, and reading emerges in the brain. She will also discuss clinical and educational applications, including how early brain data can be used to make individualized predictions about how a child will develop, and ways that this research can inform preventative and intervention research and vice-versa.

Dr. Saygin’s research looks at how specific brain areas become responsible for particular cognitive functions, and how it changes with traumatic injury. Her research has shown that neuroanatomical scans alone can predict a child’s brain function and outcomes including later reading development and dyslexia. Her goal is to offer powerful new strategies to understand, diagnose, and predict treatment outcomes for neurological disorders.

*Please note that if you require any accommodations such as live captioning or interpretation to fully participate in this event, please contact Cathy Kupsky (kupsky.3@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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2023 Symposium on Children- Getting Ready to Read

The first phase of reading development occurs between 0 and 5 years of age, when young children are developing their skills as emergent readers and writers. During this phase, children are developing fundamental understandings of the symbol systems used to read and write, including letters and words. Children will draw upon these understandings in the primary grades, when children are formally taught to read. The Crane Center’s 10th Symposium on Children is designed to enhance fundamental understanding of reading and writing development during early childhood for practitioners, administrators, researchers, and policymakers to support young children as they get ready to read!

This year’s Symposium on Children will feature Dr. Sonia Cabell, associate professor at Florida State University and research faculty at the Florida Center for Reading Research, and a recognized expert on early language and literacy development. Dr. Cabell will discuss the science of early childhood reading and writing development and ways to support skill development among young children as they get ready to read.

Following the keynote, attendees can choose to attend a breakout session before coming back together for brief flash talks will feature innovative early literacy work from around the state with implications for both early literacy policy and practice.  We look forward to welcoming you back in-person for this very special 10th anniversary of the Symposium on Children. This event is free and open to all, but registration is required.

For information on the Schoenbaum Family Center (SFC) and Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy (CCEC): https://earlychildhood.ehe.osu.edu/

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