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Webinar: How are our children? Updates and policy implications from the RAPID-EC surveys
Join us for a National Issues>State Action webinar to discuss the findings of the Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID-EC) project with University of Oregon Psychologist Dr. Phil Fisher, the project’s director, and Dr. Joan Lombardi, who chairs the National Advisory Group for the project and is former deputy secretary for Early Childhood Development at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
They’ll share the clear — and alarming — findings of the project and discuss it means for states’ early childhood policy agendas.
RAPID-EC has been surveying a national representative sample of families with young children (0-5) since April 2020 to gather clear and actionable information on the needs, health promoting behaviors, and well-being of children and their caregivers during the pandemic.
On this webinar, Dr. Fisher and Dr. Lombardi will share the story about children and families that’s emerging from the data, resources from the project that can enhance state advocates and policymakers, and ideas about what policy responses are needed to respond to the toll the pandemic is taking on these families.
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Program
Welcome, Acknowledgement of Land, and “What is RECE?” - Marek Tesar, Chair, RECE Steering Committee, Associate Professor, University of Auckland
For further information, visit receinternational.org
Panel 1 - National Policy Responses to COVID
Focal question: How well was/and is your country and the early childhood sector served by the policy response to COVID?
Panel members:
Sonja Arndt, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nkidi Phatudi, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education, University of South Africa (UNISA)
Mere Skerrett, Senior Lecturer, Teacher Education, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Mathias Urban, Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education, Dublin City University, Ireland
Marcy Whitebook, Director Emerita/Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California Berkeley, USA
Moderator: Mark Nagasawa, Bank Street College of Education
Stretch Break: Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University
Panel 2 – Perspectives, Responses and Organizing Strategies of Practitioners
Focal question: How has COVID affected your work and how have you adapted practices? What forms of activism have you engaged? How are you adapting?
Panel members:
Lyn Wright, Whānau Manaaki Kindergarten Association, Aotearoa New Zealand
Rikke Wettendorff, Danish Preschool Teachers Union
Brooke Richardson, Post-doctoral Fellow, Sociology, Brock University, Canada
Juliana Pinto McKeen, Brooklyn Coalition for Early Childhood, USA
Moderator: Lacey Peters, Hunter College, City University of New York
Small Group Discussion
Discussion prompt: How would the early childhood profession/sector benefit from an international response (statements, organizing, activism steps, networking ideas toward collaboration/cross-cultural pollination)?
Closing
Mimi Bloch, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University