NRCEC Live Stream

Individuals who are unable to attend the conference in-person can still participate via the conference live stream, NRCECLive. These sessions will be streamed live on the Internet during the conference, providing the opportunity for online participants to ask questions and follow the conversation via the NRCEC website. The schedule for sessions that will be made available on the live stream is forthcoming.

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Live Stream Sessions

• MONDAY, June 22, 2020
• 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Greetings
  • Greetings
  • Laura Namy, Executive Director, Society for Research in Child Development
  • Naomi Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families
  • Shannon Christian, Director, Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families
  • Deborah Bergeron, Director, Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families
• 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Opening Plenary Session
  • 101 Family Engagement: State of the Concept and Evidence Base
  • Chair
    Wendy DeCourcey, Administration for Children and Families
  • Presenter
    Catherine Ayoub, Harvard Medical School, Brazelton Touchpoints Center
• 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Breakout Session
  • 105 “Readiness for Change” in Early Learning: What is It? How Do We Measure It? And What Are We Learning?
  • Chair
    Kelly Maxwell, Child Trends
  • Presenters
    Tamara Halle, Child Trends
  • JoAnn Hsueh, MDRC
  • Michelle Maier, MDRC
  • Kelly Maxwell, Child Trends
  • Debra Pacchiano, Ounce of Prevention
  • Shannon Wanless, University of Pittsburgh
• 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
  • 112 MASTER LECTURE: John Fantuzzo – The Use of Child Outcome Data in Head Start— “We’ve Got to Get it Right!”
  • Chair
    Christine McWayne, Tufts University
  • Presenters
    John Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania

• TUESDAY, June 23, 2020
• 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Plenary Session
  • 201 Evidence-Based Preschool Curricula: Closing the Gap between Research and Reality
  • Chair
    Jennifer Brooks, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Presenters
    Bridget Hamre, University of Virginia
  • JoAnn Hsueh, MDRC
  • Jason Sachs, Boston Public Schools
  • Mindy Zapata, Early Head Start and Head Start, Southwest Human Development
• 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • 202 MASTER LECTURE: Lynne Katz – We’re Dancing as Fast as We Can! The Ever-Challenging, Ongoing Interplay between Research Science and Practice Demands for Children Born Cocaine-Exposed and their Families
  • Chair
    Ann Easterbrooks, Tufts University
  • Presenter
    Lynne Katz, University of Miami
  • Dicussant
    Rosemary Chalk, Consultant in Child and Family Policy, Bethesda, MD
• 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Plenary Session
  • 212 Challenged Childhoods: Adverse Circumstances and Children’s Early Development
  • Chair
    Sacha Klein, Michigan State University
  • Presenters
    Rachel Barr, Georgetown University
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha, Michigan State University
  • Nancy Young, Children and Family Futures
  • Dicussant
    Sacha Klein, Michigan State University
• 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Breakout Session
  • 220 Home is Where the Heart Is: Supporting Relationship-Based Approaches to Work with Families and Caregivers
  • Chair
    Toni Porter, Early Care and Education Consulting
  • Presenters
    Juliet Bromer, Erikson Institute
  • Neal Horen, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
  • Jon Korfmacher, Erikson Institute
  • Dicussant
    Nina Johnson, National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance

• WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2020
• 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Plenary Session
  • 301 Measuring Cost of Quality Early Childhood Programs
  • Chair
    Emily Schmitt, Administration for Children and Families
  • Presenters
    Kimberly Boller, Mathematica Policy Institute
  • Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Brookings Institute
  • Rachel Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Dicussant
    Lynn Karoly, RAND
• 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Breakout Session
  • 302 Working Together for Children and Families: Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
  • Chair
    Sarah Blankenship, Administration for Children and Families
  • Presenters
    Patricia Del Grosso, Mathematica Policy Research
  • Jaime Thomas, Mathematica Policy Research
  • Dicussants
    Amanda Bryans, Administration for Children and Families
  • Rachel Demma, Administration for Children and Families
  • Fran Majestic, Administration for Children and Families
• 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Breakout Session
  • 312 Developing and Evaluating Interventions to Address Early Childhood Trauma
  • Chair
    Shannon Lipscomb, Oregon State University–Cascades
  • Presenters
    Sandra Graham-Bermann, University of Michigan
  • Shannon Lipscomb, Oregon State University–Cascades
  • Christy Tirrell-Corbin, University of Maryland
• 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Closing Plenary Session
  • 318 MASTER LECTURE: Marcy Whitebook -- Toward Getting it Right for the Early Care and Education Workforce: Looking Back and Looking Forward
  • Chair
    Sara Vecchiotti, Foundation for Child Development
  • Presenters
    Abby Copeman Petig, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley
  • Marisa Schlieber, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley
  • Marcy Whitebook, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley