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Excell<\/a>:\u00a0\"Screen<\/a>The Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy \u2013 enhanced (ExCELL-e) program is a year-long online professional development program for teachers of preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. ExCELL-e provides specific strategies to help teachers build the language and vocabulary skills of the children in their classrooms. These include asking open-ended questions, waiting for children to respond, providing feedback on what children have said, and teaching children new vocabulary words throughout the classroom. With support from an expert coach, teachers learn new and refine techniques that help who are native speakers of English, as well as those who are dual language learners.<\/p>\n

Story Talk: We are currently undertaking a 3-year evaluation of Story Talk, a\u00a0reading strategy intended to promote the development of language and literacy skills in young children from low-income families.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Text to Talk<\/a>:\u00a0Funded by the William Penn Foundation and sponsored by the School District of Philadelphia, Text to Talk is a three-year project focused on improving our\u00a0understanding of how early childhood educators\u00a0communicate with families, and how\u00a0modern forms of communications such as apps, texting, and email might foster family-school coordination, and ultimately children\u2019s kindergarten readiness.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>PNC Grow Up Great<\/a>:\u00a0Dr. Barbara Wasik, Professor and PNC Chair in Early Childhood Education, \u00a0collaborated with\u00a0PNC Grow Up Great\u00a0to develop a website that features early childhood science activities for teachers. The activities were contributed by national science centers such as the\u00a0Franklin Institute<\/a>. The site will continue to feature new activities including those in the arts, in support of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) education.<\/p>\n

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Progress Monitoring<\/a>:\u00a0This study is focused on improving our\u00a0understanding of how teachers implement and use ongoing assessment to individualize instruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Story Talk@Home:\u00a0Supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this project leverages the efforts and funding for the Story Talk project to develop a family component that is seamlessly aligned with the Story Talk classroom materials. This project takes a community-based approach, including extensive consultation with and feedback from Head Start families, who are the intended end-users of the intervention. Six months of focus groups and development are followed by a one-year pilot and then a one-year randomized controlled trial, spanning 2015-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excell:\u00a0The Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy \u2013 enhanced (ExCELL-e) program is a year-long online professional development program for teachers of preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. ExCELL-e provides specific strategies to help teachers build the language and vocabulary skills of the children in their classrooms. These include asking open-ended questions, waiting for children to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4452,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/earlylearninglab\/publications\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":0},"title":"Publications","author":"Emily Snell","date":"March 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hindman, A. H., Wasik, B. A., & Bradley, D. E. (2019). How classroom conversations unfold: Exploring teacher\u2013child exchanges during shared book reading. Early Education and Development, 30(4), 478-495. Snell, E. K., Hindman, A. H., & Wasik, B. A. (2019). A review of research on technology-mediated language and literacy professional development\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/earlylearninglab\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":1},"title":"Welcome to the Temple Early\u2026","author":"Emily Snell","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the Temple Early Learning Lab,\u00a0at Temple University\u2019s\u00a0College of Education. Motivated by a desire to prepare young children in poverty to succeed in school, the focus\u00a0of TELL\u00a0is research on early learning, in particular\u00a0among at-risk children, their families, teachers, and schools. 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