Cultivate Learning in the News
Advancing Educational Justice: Recognizing the Experts
Originally published 2022 | by Alice Skipton
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, early education programs across Washington were strapped for resources. Cultivate Learning and the Washington Early Achievers program worked together to learn where their pain points were and develop a new rating system and framework. The new system puts the program directors in charge of their goals and what’s best for their programs. [Read the issue here...]
Seattle Times: Meaningful Makeover brings a Reality-TV Spin to Early Learning
Originally published May 7, 2018 | by By Dahlia Bazzaz, Education Lab engagement editor
Put together by a group of early-childhood-education experts (and home-improvement-show enthusiasts) at the University of Washington, “Meaningful Makeover” is a web series centered on low-budget makeovers of early-learning spaces in the Puget Sound region. [Read more about Meaningful Makeover on the Seattle Times...]
Seattle Times: Bezos family gifts $3 million to shape UW’s early education work
Originally published September 20, 2018 | by Neal Morton, Seattle Times staff reporter
Only a week after Jeff Bezos pledged to pour part of his personal wealth into creating a network of preschools for low-income families, his parents’ philanthropic foundation announced a $3 million gift to the University of Washington to shape its work in early education. [Read more about Bezos' pledge here...]
Gail Joseph is Awarded the 2018 David B. Thorud Leadership Award
Originally published June 18, 2018 | by Mia Tuan, Dean and Professor, Education
Gail and the Cultivating Learning team are key in implementing the state’s quality rating and improvement system–Early Achievers–developed by Gail and her team to assess and support the state’s early learning and care providers. [Read more about Gail Joseph...]
News Archives
Fix a broken system where preschoolers are expelled (Seattle Times)
No more timeouts: The need for Positive Behavior Support in early learning (UW)
Twelve New Edtech Tools Make the Cut for Chicago Teachers, According to Leading Education Nonprofit (PR Newswire)
Three ways to improve learning for Washington’s youngest residents (Seattle Times)
6 Reasons Why Early Learning Matters So Much, According to Experts (ParentMap)
Pre-K education: School readiness for all (Seattle Times)
UW College of Education ranked #9 in nation (UW)
Seattle Preschool Program adding 22 classrooms for 2018-19 (King 5)
Early learning focus of EDU Talks on March 28 (UW)
