What Makes a Quality Preschool?

Today we chat with Dr. Kathleen O’Dell, the Academic Officer for the Kailua-Kalaheo Complex Area. She has been with the HIDOE for 5 years now and is passionate about her work in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in schools, quality early childhood education, and family engagement. For today, though, we’ll be discussing what makes a quality early childhood education and how to spark curiosity and engagement in our keiki.

Your Hosts

• Dr. Esmeralda Carini
• Erin D’ Amelio

Links for You!

• Kat mentioned the Early Childhood Action Strategy, a network of stakeholders “working together to develop a comprehensive system that supports early childhood development” as an organization getting things right. Check them out!
• You can also find the website of the Executive Office of Early Learning here .
• The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 3 Music

• Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” hedkandi
• "Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.