September 20, 2022

The Harvard Graduate School of Education's Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative Announces 2023 Innovation Challenge

T The 2023 Zaentz Early Education Innovation Challenge has been announced by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative. The initiative, which has been restarted after a two-year hiatus, aims to provide people and organisations with a platform for ideas on how to improve early education in the USA.

The 2023 Innovative Challenge will offer people an opportunity to submit ideas that have the potential to boost creativity and bring about radical change in the field of early education.

When Zaentz polled families and educators about their pandemic experiences as part of the Harvard Early Learning Study, they discovered that most parents were anxious about their children's intellectual and social-emotional development. They also discovered that the majority of instructors struggled with their own mental health and well-being.

…Zaentz needs to continue to break down barriers and innovate to ensure quality early education for all children, while also addressing problems that were created or exacerbated by the pandemic…

According to Nonie Lesaux, Co-Director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative, reforms at all levels of the system are required to realise the full potential of early education. This is what prompted the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative to relaunch the Innovation Challenge after a two-year hiatus.

Nonie Lesaux proposed that developing innovative methods to promote children's healthy development is one way to address needs. She went on to say that by establishing legislative solutions, great strides will be made toward realising the full potential of early education. The Zaentz Initiative will thus use the 2023 Innovative Challenge to invite suggestions from the public.

Speaking about the importance of restarting the initiative, a spokeswoman for the Early Learning Study at Harvard said that Zaentz needs to continue to break down barriers and innovate to ensure quality early education for all children, while also addressing problems that were created or exacerbated by the pandemic.

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