Step by Step Program | Media

Webinar 

Co-hosted by the International Step by Step Association and Georgetown University, introducing Early Childhood Education in Social and Political Transitions and celebrating thirty years of the Step by Step Program. View the recording here.

Podcast

Who Says We Can’t Change the World? A Podcast on Early Childhood Education and Societal Change 

We are excited to share a special podcast titled Who Says We Can’t Change the World?—an inspiring conversation about Early Childhood Education in Social and Political Transitions, a new Open-Access book published  by Bloomsbury Academic.  Listen to an engaging discussion about how civil society catalyzed democratic reform of early childhood education following the political transitions of the 1990s in Europe and Eurasia from three experts involved in introducing the Step by Step Program in newly democratic states. 

In this episode, you’ll hear: 

• What motivated one of the largest investments in global early childhood education:  introduction in 30 countries of the Open Society’s Step by Step Program aimed at reforming early childhood education across Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia, following the Fall of the Berlin wall.
• How Ministries of Education, educators, young children and their families reacted to the introduction of innovative, democratic practices in kindergartens and primary schools.
• The challenges of working to introduce reform of teacher training institutions and of shifting attitudes towards Roma and children with disabilities.

• How democratic ideas motivated the establishment of practice and research-focused networks dedicated to social inclusion and innovation in early childhood. 

• The relevance of lessons learned for the early childhood field of today.

Meet the speakers: 

• Sarah Klaus, co-author and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
• Carmen Lica, Director of the Step by Step Center for Education and Professional Development (CEDP) Romania
• Iveta Silova, Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement
• Ros Taylor, Podcaster, Journalist and Moderator

View the video of the podcast here.

In Person Book Launch Event - October 22-24, 2024

The co-authors gathered for an in-person event at ISSA Conference 2024 in Sofia Bulgaria, focused on the theme: It Takes an Early Childhood Ecosystem for All Children to Thrive