Our annual Network Meeting is a collaborative learning event that brings together representatives from schools, public- and private-sector partners and other key stakeholders in the early childhood field. At each meeting there are large group presentations, business updates and concurrent sessions, some presented by representatives from Educare schools. This meeting also hosts the Network’s communities of practice. Download the app for complete session descriptions.

Data Dialogues

Tuesday, April 4

Student Outcomes
This session will cover associations of improvements in student outcomes with school-level, classroom-level, family-level and child-level characteristics.
Room: Salon CDE

Family Engagement Practices
This session will focus on comparisons of expectations versus frequency of job activities, such as with families and interdisciplinary practice, associations of family support staff characteristics, and beliefs with reported practices and family outcomes.
Room: Salon GF

Classroom Quality
This session will go over descriptive summary data and change over time, association with child outcomes, and associations with school, classroom, teacher and student characteristics.
Room: Salon H

Learn Shops

Wednesday April 5

The learn shops are 45-minute sessions designed and facilitated by Network members covering topics of importance to Educare. Together, interdisciplinary teams can learn alongside one another in an expanded, in-depth experience, gaining practical ideas that they can bring back to their schools to develop and implement. The Learn shops are intended for all Network Meeting attendees.

Featured Speaker

Wednesday, April 5

Catherine Ayoub, Ed.D., M.N.

Catherine Ayoub is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. She holds a doctorate in counseling/consulting psychology from Harvard University and a master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Emory University. She is currently on the medical staff in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

At the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, she serves as director of research and evaluation, co-principal investigator for the National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement, and founder and director of the Family Connections Mental Health Consultation Project. Her clinical expertise, innovation, and research interest focus on the developmental impact of trauma across the lifespan and on forensic child psychology.

Dr. Ayoub’s work with the National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement has included leadership in conceptualizing and writing the “PFCE Framework”, the “Relationship-Based Competencies”, and the “Measuring What Matters Series” for the Office of Head Start. Her system innovation and community-level work promotes resilience through design, implementation, and bringing to scale prevention and intervention programs that serve young children and their families. She has written over 130 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and practice papers.

Dr. Ayoub is the past director of prevention science at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Founder of the Parent Child Center in Tulsa, OK. She has expertise in work with Latino families, and a special interest in collaborating with Native American communities.

Download the full App Instructional Guide. 

Monday, April 3

Tuesday, April 4

Wednesday, April 5

Thursday, April 6