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The Correlation between Executive Function and Achievement: Implications for ECE Policy
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
2 p.m. ET/ 1 p.m. CT/ Noon MT/ 11 a.m. PT

This webinar is the first in a series of two webinars that will offer Early Learning Fellows an exchange of ideas and solutions related to early learning, and provide them with practical policy information they can use in their states. Deborah Leong, Ph.D., will expand on her May 2 Early Learning Fellows presentation that discussed the relationship between executive function/self-regulation and learning in the early childhood classroom.  In addition, Miriam Calderon will follow Leong’s presentation by leading a discussion on the policy issues that arise from the research on the importance of executive function and achievement.  An interactive question-and-answer period will follow.





Moderators:

• Julie Poppe, NCSL

Speakers:    

• Deborah Leong, director, Tools of the Mind
• Miriam Calderon, strategy and development consultant for Tools of the Mind

Webinar Agenda

2-2:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks, Introductions Moderators:  Julie Poppe, NCSL 2:15-2:45 p.m. Presentations Deborah Leong Miriam Calderon Click here to view the full presention 2:45-3 p.m. Questions, Discussion and Final Thoughts
Speaker Biographies
Deborah Leong, Ph.D., is director of Tools of the Mind, and professor emerita of Psychology, Metropolitan University of Denver. Leong has a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her interests include the application of the Vygotskian approach to early childhood education and authentic assessment. She has co-authored (with Elena Bodrova) "Tools of the Mind: the Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education" and a series of educational videos on Vygotsky. She is co-director of the Tools of the Mind Project, which was chosen as an exemplary educational innovation by the International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, United Nations. Her writing includes assessing and guiding young children’s growth and development as well as several articles on dynamic assessment. She has also written about early childhood standards, "A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Accomplishments and Student Behaviors—Pre-K through Kindergarten."
Miriam Calderon is a strategy and development consultant for Tools of the Mind. Most recently, she served as a political appointee in the Obama administration advising on early learning policy at the Domestic Policy Council at the White House and at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining the administration, Calderon served as the director of Early Childhood Education at DCPS, where she oversaw Head Start and pre-kindergarten programs serving nearly 5,500 children in 84 elementary schools throughout the city. She worked as the associate director of Education Policy at the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization where she focused specifically on early education policy for Hispanic and dual language learner children. She began her career in early education working as a mental health consultant in Head Start programs in Portland, Ore. She has published several reports on early childhood education and her work is cited in both the English and Spanish media.