Arm Yourself: Use Research to Guide Practice and Advocate on Behalf of Children

FirstSchool Director Sharon Ritchie created this resource for our PreK-3 partner educators.  We hope that this resource helps support and drive your teaching as you consider the research base that drives FirstSchool initiatives.  This quick “cheat sheet” summarizes the major points of key research articles that address oral language/vocabulary, collaboration, self-regulation, culturally relevant teaching, teaching approaches, expectations, use of classroom observation data, and children's trajectories.  A full list of citations is provided at the end.