Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa

Congratulations are in order for our Senior Research and Policy Associate Dr. Shinyoung Jeon. The American Educational Research Association’s Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group honored Jeon with its 2021 Early Career Award. The award is given annually to an individual with an early and promising record as a researcher and scholar in the early childhood field.... Jeon’s work is primarily focused on three areas: longitudinal developmental trajectories of children from low-income families with a focus on resilience; impacts of early education intervention programs on developmental outcomes of children from low-income families; and teacher-parent partnerships and family engagement in early care and education. "Dr. Jeon is dedicated to examining the developmental trajectories of children from low-income families and their resilience processes in early childhood education programs. She focuses on family-program partnerships to identify effective strategies to maximize the contextual effects of home and early childhood education intervention programs on developmental outcomes of children from low-income families, said ECEI Director Diane Horm. Jeon has published 16 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals and given more than 30 presentations since 2017. She has an impressive list of publications and presentations at important, top-tier venues that is more characteristic of someone with more years of experience. Her work with Tulsa’s local early childhood programs demonstrates that she is able to analyze ‘real-world’ data on young children and programs and generate findings and actionable recommendations that the program can really use, Horm said.

Congrats to all the OU Big Idea Challenge winning teams for all their hard work! We will be sharing more information soon about one of the winning projects being led by Sherri Castle, assistant director of research at the ECEI; Erin Maher, an associate professor of sociology and associate director of OU’s Data Institute for Societal Challenges; and Connie Chapple, associate professor of sociology at OU.

Have you registered for our free Feb. 10 research and policy webinar yet? The conclusion of our three-part series, Building Equitable Futures, you’ll hear from national, industry experts about early childhood research, fostering discussion about research, policy and equity. Be part of the conversation, register now! https://www.ou.edu//building-equitable-futures-event-regis @OPSReadiness @EarlyChildhoodEducationInstitute

Start your year off right by learning something new! Join us from 1-4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13, for #BuildingEquitable Futures’ Webinar #2: Investments in Teachers: Key to Quality Early Childhood Education, Child Well-Being and a Strong Economic Future. Register at www.ou.edu///building-equitable-futures-event-registration Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa #virtuallearning #oklaed

Don’t miss our free webinar Building Equitable Futures for Oklahoma’s Children: An Early Childhood Research and Policy Series. Our group of presenters includes Lynn Karoly with RAND Corporation, Mylien Duong with the Committee for Children and Kyong-Ah Kwon and Ken Randall with the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. Oklahoma DHS Director Justin Brown will be providing the opening remarks. The presentations will focus on the importance of supporting the social-emotional well-bein...g of early childhood teachers, how the workplace impacts their physical, psychological and professional well-being, and the cost of providing needed supports. Register online at https://www.ou.edu//building-equitable-futures-event-regis. Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa #BuildingEquitableFutures #BEF20 See more