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Effects on Early Child Outcomes of Shared Parental Responsiveness Among Fathers and Mothers Living in Households with Low Income

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Dr. Joyce Lee, assistant professor of social work at The Ohio State University and director of the Child and Family Wellbeing Laboratory

 

Responsive relationships are important in young children’s early development, but the ways in which fathers and mothers work together as a system — as well as the role of shared parental responsiveness in child development — are not well understood. In this presentation, Dr. Joyce Lee will discuss findings on the effects of shared parental responsiveness between fathers and mothers in low-income households on preschoolers’ developmental outcomes. The specific developmental outcomes studied include children’s behavior problems, prosocial behaviors and receptive language.

Dr. Lee’s research aims to promote child welfare and family strengthening through preventing child maltreatment, supporting positive parenting and promoting the health of children in foster care. Her work is intended to inform child welfare policies and practices to improve children’s health outcomes and strengthen children’s relationships with their family members.

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Beyond Learning Loss: Exploring the Implications of COVID for Early Language and Literacy Development (Zoom)

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Dr. Elizabeth Hadley, associate professor of literacy studies at the University of South Florida

 

Learning experiences in the early grades play a crucial role in preparing children to be strong readers, writers and thinkers across content areas. What happens when these early learning experiences are disrupted? In a longitudinal study, Dr. Elizabeth Hadley followed children, whose pre-kindergarten year was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through the end of first grade, investigating the impacts of COVID on their language and literacy development. In this presentation, Dr. Hadley will explore implications of findings from this research, including the extent to which state-funded pre-K supports children’s language and literacy skills and which kinds of language and literacy skills are impacted most when children lose access to in-person instruction.

Dr. Hadley’s work centers on intentionally and equitably fostering language and early literacy development in pre-K classrooms, especially for children from marginalized communities and from families experiencing poverty. Dr. Hadley has been published in top journals and won awards including the Early Career Award from the Early Education/Child Development SIG from the American Educational Research Association.

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Assessing Young Multilingual Learners’ Language Development (Zoom)

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Dr. Becky Huang, Crane faculty associate and professor of multilingual language education at The Ohio State University

 

Due to globalization and immigration trends, the number of children growing up learning more than one language has been growing rapidly around the world. The increase in this population comes with the parallel need for fair and effective assessment of their multilingual development. In this talk, Dr. Becky Huang will focus on students ages 4 to 13, corresponding to kindergarten to eighth grade in the U.S. education system. Assessments of students’ language development also have strong relevance and implications for education. Dr. Huang will first discuss the myths related to assessing this population, and then address the challenges of assessing young multilinguals. The talk will end with a discussion of the future of multilingual assessment, considering the roles of technology such as artificial intelligence, and the application of translanguaging in assessing young multilinguals.

Dr. Huang’s goal in her work is to promote language and education outcomes for multilingual students. Her research areas of applied linguistics, psychology and education combine to focus on two key areas: language/literacy development and assessment of multilingual students. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Health, the Institute of Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education, and she serves on the editorial board for several journals.

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QualLab Lunchtime Lecture Series: Manageable Subjects: Trans Childhoods and Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom (Zoom)

The QualLab is excited to welcome Dr. Harper Keenan, inaugural Robert Quartermain Professor of Gender and Sexuality Research in Education at the University of British Columbia, for our first QualLab Lunch of 2024! Join us on Thursday, January 18, 2024, noon – 1 P.M, for Dr. Keenan’s lecture on “Unmanageable Subjects: Trans Childhoods and Civic Learning in the Elementary Classroom.” Registration is open now.

In this lecture, Dr. Keenan discusses the epistemological and pedagogical impacts of positioning trans people as unmanageable subjects within the context of K-12 schools in the United States. This talk invites participants to grapple with two focal questions:
How might educators and scholars embrace this unmanageability? What might it look like to practice civic education that resists rigidly scripting the world, including who children can be and become within it?

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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