At the "Annual ProLEER Meeting at Harvard", representatives of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad presented the good results of 10 years of work with pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children in Chilean municipal schools, which are reflected in a book that will be launched next week in our country: "A Good Start for the children of Chile".
Marcela Marzolo, Executive Director of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, together with Andrea Rolla, Advisor to the Foundation for Harvard University, presented the history, the good results and the lessons learned from the early education programme "Buen Comienzo" at the annual meeting of Proleer at Harvard, which took place this week in Boston.
ProLEER (Professional Learning Network to Advance Early Education Reform) is an international network of researchers, academics, policy makers and programme implementers committed to improving educational practice and policy to raise the quality of early childhood learning. It was founded in 2009 by Harvard University students in collaboration with Professor Catherine Snow of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
At this meeting, representatives from the United States, the Netherlands, India, Pakistan and Latin America visited a public school in Boston, participated in conferences and shared knowledge and experiences related to education and the situation of education in the different countries represented. Andrea Rolla, Harvard advisor for Fundación Educacional Oportunidad and co-organiser of the event, said that "this is a very important initiative, because it allows us to share experiences, research, and public policies within the region, with Harvard, and internationally".
Within the framework of the presentations, Marcela Marzolo, Executive Director of the foundation together with Andrea Rolla, presented the book "A Good Start for the children of Chile", a document that describes the history, results, lessons and perspectives of the early education programme A Good Start (UBC), a unique record in Chile, as there are very few rigorous and systematic studies of early education programmes that demonstrate a positive impact on children's learning.
The Good Start programme was designed in 2007 to contribute to Chilean municipal early education and has been evaluated since its inception by the CPCE of the Diego Portales University and the CIAE of the University of Chile, demonstrating its impact on the learning of vulnerable children in early education.
Marcela Marzolo valued the opportunity to present the book and the excellent results of the programme at an international education meeting; "We are happy about the interest in our presentation on the Good Start programme, which only ratifies the international recognition that our work is receiving".
The book, presented at the Boston conference, will be launched in Chile next Tuesday, October 9th at 16:30 hrs. in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Diego Portales and will also be attended by the Undersecretary of Early Childhood Education, María José Castro, as well as a talk by Pedro Delgado, an expert in continuous improvement from the Institute from Healthcare Improvement, who will tell how the continuous improvement model was adapted in a unique and innovative way to this early childhood education programme in Chile.
