Kristie Kauerz quoted in Education Dive

Pre-K-3 leadership academy fosters early learning hubs

There are several new education professional development opportunities that focus specifically on increasing principals’ understanding of recommended early-childhood practices.
“The field-wide move toward focusing on birth through age 8 has prompted more intentional discussion of what is the ‘through-8’ side,” Kristie Kauerz, director of the National P-3 Center — formerly at the University of Washington and now at the University of Colorado Denver — said in an interview. “We’re starting to see so many more programs crop up.”