A Systemic Approach to Quality in Early Childhood Services for children from 3 to 10 years of age.

The Know How Centre has worked with Roma communities for the past 6 years. This year's program however was their most successful until now: they managed to motivate and support Roma parents of 29 children to apply for kindergarten.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon announced last week that he and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, would create and operate a national network of Montessori preschools. The gesture, a promised 2 billion dollars, particularly surpirsed Montessori organizations and leaders.

Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation and the International Renaissance Foundation are at the very heart of the National School Reform program.

The TOY for Inclusion project and the Early Childhood Education and Care Play Hubs, received support for another 2 years.

The INTESYS approach makes services more responsive to real-world situations. ‘The INTESYS project enables us to highlight the processes that lead to joint, early and effective strategies in addressing vulnerable situations…’ says Norma Gigliotti

‘The birth of a child mobilizes all the people in his or her community. The family, but also all people in its surrounding social environment.  It is during these first years that a child develops its tastes, understands social codes, and feels a sense of belonging.

ISSA brings an interesting study from New South Wales (Australia) to your attention. The 2018 Fostering Effective Early Learning (FEEL) study focuses on the importance of quality, and how to strengthen it in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings.