Harvard's Global Children's Initiative

The Harvard University website on Global Child Development was a great new resource to explore this week. I was even a little excited that I was late contacting my colleague from Ghana. This website offers a new insight to the world’s effort in child development and the advance the field is trying to make, as a whole.

The Global Children’s Initiative focuses on development awareness of early childhood education/care throughout the world.

• Building a unified science of health, learning, and behavior to explain the early roots of lifelong

impairments;

• Leading the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovative program and practice models

that reduce preventable disparities in well-being;

• Catalyzing the implementation of effective, science-based public policies through strategic relationships

and knowledge transfer; and

• Preparing future and current leaders to build and leverage knowledge that promotes the healthy

development of children and families and brings high returns to all of society.

I will be adding this website to my ever growing lists of resources for fellow educators and future use.