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MA Plans Birth-Grade 3 Professional Development Program

November 9, 2011 by Irene Sege

Photo: Alessandra Hartkopf for Strategies for Children

We talk often about the importance of aligning children’s learning experiences, from birth to third grade. For instance, “Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success,” the 2010 report we commissioned from literacy expert Nonie Lesaux of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, outlines strategies to improve the language development and literacy of children from birth to age 9. Now the Massachusetts Departments of Early Education and Care (EEC) and Elementary