Ashley LiBetti

joyful, blunt, prone to snark. into #earlychildhood before it was cool.

founder and principal consultant at pillars research + strategy.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@saramead I must own this.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

if you’re not talking with your hands, are you even talking

[publiccharters.org @charteralliance]

Joining the Early Childhood Education Community of Practice! @RockyMtnPrep @OneCitySchools @CaireKaleem @AppleTreeInst @aklibetti

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

breaking my twitter silence to draw your attention to this potentially VERY exciting news re: access to health insurance vis-a-vis the family glitch.

particularly relevant to early educators!

https://t.co/x0ZEUG5kTu (h/t @ewburak)

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

if I can only read your report by downloading the pdf, I am not reading your report.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

such a cool resource. though feel free to add an early childhood section :) @StudentSuccess

[Chad Aldeman @ChadAldeman]

Want to find examples of states and districts investing their federal relief $ in smart ways to get students back on track?

This is a good site to explore and bookmark: https://t.co/RMYIoKVSCT

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

*co-authored with @HarrietDichter and informed by dozens of state-level actors. full-team effort to pull all of the information together!

[National Head Start Association @NatlHeadStart]

At #WLI22 covering the topic that is on everyone's mind: workforce compensation.

Speaker @aklibetti authored the below research that covers what early ed compensation currently looks like in the US.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@jamieoleary update: might add "hug sleep proselytizer" to my twitter bio and/or resume.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@mhlittle312 I read this as a to-do list and/or twitter challenge.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@jamieoleary I GOT THIS SAME THING AND FEEL THIS SAME WAY.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

this is good news. stipends and bonuses are one of the most common state strategies to increase compensation, even more so with ARPA Stabilization dollars. now imagine what we could do with real, systematic wage increases!

(more state approaches to comp: https://t.co/6VM7eOPsen)

[daphna bassok @daphnabassok]

Virginia's Teacher Recognition Program provides $ to support early educators & reduce turnover. We did an RCT and found that $1500 cut turnover among child care teachers in half from 30% to 15% (!!). New w/ @JustinBDoromal @molly_michie @viviancwong1 https://t.co/Sn3dWu8DQf

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@mhlittle312 @WarbyParker agreed on the WP convenience buuuutt might i suggest @EyeBuyDirect. same convenience, more options, less $!

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

align preschool and K! align preschool and K!

a crucial takeaway here is that *combined* prek+k early math interventions had longer-term effects on kids.

so pls consider this a formal request to approach prek+k alignment as a must-have and not a nice-to-have.

@MDRC_News

[Education Week @educationweek]

These Early Math Supports Translated to Gains Later on for Vulnerable Students https://t.co/BSkFGSzNAT

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

what we're seeing at the national level, concretized in the context of Hyde Park.

"I have families paying $250 a week for me to watch their child. To them, that's a lot of money, but to me, working 12 hours a day, that's nothing."

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

if you're not paying attention to ECE workforce compensation, you're doing it wrong. come learn concrete details and decisions about strategies currently underway.

paper here:
https://t.co/lJagkGwrIw

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

#bellwarianforlife <3 @bellwethered @arotherham

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

ah yes, another season of @Eagles being just good enough to break my heart 😢

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

"We can’t waste this once-in-a-generation chance on simply trying to scale preschool. We must be clear that what we need to focus on is scaling equity."
https://t.co/lCyr3KK49x via @YasminaNHSA @TheHillOpinion

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

I'm not fangirling, but also I very much am. https://t.co/PIeHL1k7Eg

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

It bears repeating that banning abortion doesn’t stop women from having abortions — it just stops women from having *safe* abortions.

[Ashley LiBetti @aklibetti]

@Dyrnwyn @PCunningham57 @MQ_McShane @EducationNext if only it didn't require a lawsuit to get to that point. (annnd also abbott is complicated re: actual diverse delivery.) (that's early childhood speak for "choice".)