Citywide Early Childhood Research Roundtable

Join us as we connect Chicago’s early childhood researchers, evaluators, and analysts.

The Citywide Early Childhood Research Roundtable, hosted by the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago (EC*REACH), will take place Wednesday, September 25 at 12:00-1:00p on Zoom.

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Meet our presenters‍

Mickie Brown and Kyrsten Emanuel of Start Early and Carrie Comer-Yates from Chicago Public Schools will present findings from an evaluation conducted over the last school year of a public-private partnership between Chicago's six federal Head Start grant recipients and Chicago Public Schools to develop a pilot program to implement, assess, and institutionalize feasible strategies and approaches for delivering special education services to children with disabilities in the Head Start programs in which they are enrolled

Learn more about EC*REACH's Roundtable series 

EC*REACH Citywide Early Childhood Research Roundtables are informal, virtual gatherings of Chicago researchers, evaluators, and analysts whose work focuses on young children and/or their families. All early childhood topics, disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and questions big or small are welcome. Please come prepared to provide friendly and constructive feedback to your colleagues.   

One of our main goals for these Roundtables is to provide the Chicago early childhood research community with an informal space to connect and learn from colleagues across universities and institutions that has not previously existed. Moreover, our Roundtables are unique in that they bring together those who study a range of early childhood topics and have diverse disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and research questions.

Do you have work in progress or an idea that you want feedback on?

If you are interested in presenting and receiving feedback on your work at a future Roundtable, please contact Maia Connors at ecreach@northwestern.edu. The work you share need not be about Chicago, but we do ask that it is still in progress and that you are open to feedback. In your email, please provide a brief description of your project, what kind of feedback you are looking for, how long you expect to need (a whole or half meeting). If you are working with any policy or practice partners, please confirm that it is okay with them that you share the work with this group.