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May 24, 2023
The CECE has been awarded another Telly Award! The video "Using Children's Books to Help Build Inclusive Classrooms" has been awarded a Bronze award in the category of General - Social Issues. A part of the CECE’s series focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in early childhood, the video describes how teachers can carefully select varied children’s books to ensure they represent a diversity of cultures and family structures.
March 22, 2023
Eastern’s Center for Early Childhood Education has reached a new milestone, achieving 5 million views on their YouTube channel on March 22, 2023. The center began producing educational videos in 2006 with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. The center’s YouTube channel went live on January 29, 2013, with 12 videos. Five years later, the channel reached 1 million views in February 2018. The center’s YouTube channel has over 200 videos featuring researchers and other experts, teachers, home day care providers, home visitors, and program administrators. To date, over 130 students have been involved in projects or research that led to videos or have served as production interns helping to capture and edit video footage. Videos have been viewed around the world, with most views coming from the U.S., Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and India.
March 03, 2023
Emberly Haughton, an Eastern student majoring in developmental psychology and early childhood education, has been named the fourth recipient of the Jeffrey and Nancy Trawick-Smith Early Childhood Undergraduate Research Award. She will use the award to conduct a mixed-methods study on math reasoning by bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Under the mentorship of Dr. Sudha Swaminathan, Haughton will evaluate preschoolers' math abilities and reasoning during assessments and play-based experiences. Her goal is to identify distinct metacognitive processing strategies used by bilingual learners and to determine appropriate supportive teaching strategies.
January 17, 2023
Preschool teacher Karla Alamo recently presented with researchers from three universities at the National Association for the Education of Young Children in Washington, D.C. Alamo is a bilingual teacher associate at Eastern’s Child and Family Development Resource Center (CFDRC) who was invited by Eastern researchers Julia DeLapp and Jeffrey Trawick-Smith to contribute to a presentation on supporting multilingual learners.
May 09, 2022
CECE investigators and student researchers have published "The influence of teachers, peers, and play materials on dual language learners’ play interactions in preschool" in Early Childhood Education Journal. The article describes findings from a study observing the interactions of emergent bilingual preschoolers and their peers and teachers. Former endowed chair Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, CECE director Julia DeLapp, and students Abby Bourdon, Fatima Godina, and Kendra Flanagan conducted the study and contributed to the article.
March 09, 2022
Dr. Sudha Swaminathan will present CECE research findings at the June 2022 conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Dr. Swaminathan will present "Impact of Coding on Preschoolers' Math Abilities," which will describe the impact of coding robotic toys on preschoolers’ computational thinking. The presentation will share study findings about the positive impact of coding on specific math skills, children’s debugging capacities, and dispositions for programming.
December 09, 2021
Dr. Theresa Bouley was recently interviewed by reporter Brian Scott Smith on Connecticut East This Week. She spoke about her two recent publications: "Implicit Bias: An Educator’s Guide to the Language of Microaggressions" and "The Economic and Opportunity Gap: How Poverty Impacts the Lives of Students."
May 27, 2021
The CECE has been awarded another Telly Award! The video “A Study of the Play of Dual Language Learners in an English-Speaking Classroom” has received a Bronze Telly Award in the Non Broadcast—General Education category. The video highlights findings from a study conducted by ECE and Communication student Stefanie Dominguez for her undergraduate Honors thesis, and discusses ways that preschool teachers might support the social engagement of dual language learners. Edited by Sean Leser, the video features interviews with Stefanie, research mentor Dr. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, and bilingual education expert Dr. Ann Anderberg.
April 15, 2021
Dr. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith received the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group (EE/CD SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The award is given "recognizes an individual who has contributed nationally and internationally to the field of early education/child development as well as to the EE/CD SIG."
January 30, 2021
CECE Director Julia DeLapp was quoted in an article by The Day on Pregnancy in a Pandemic for her insight for infant’s social interaction. DeLapp emphasizes that the most important part of infants development is the relationship with their primary caregiver.
