Video: Where does the workforce begin?

Smart Beginnings Virginia has produced a short video on the “workforce pipeline” that highlights the tremendous influence of the earliest years in promoting learning and preventing educational failure.

httpv://youtu.be/dhUDYBjTYkQ

Videos like these should prompt robust questions:

  1. What role do families, businesses, schools  and other institutions play in early childhood?
  2. Is the “workforce pipeline” an authentic, human way to speak about nurturing young children? What does this say to children about their identity and purpose?

Video: Early Family Experiences Shape Later Success

“There is strong biological evidence, strong neuroscientific evidence that suggest that early family conditions are powerful in shaping cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and that those determine – to a degree that we didn’t realize before – the later success of a person.”

It is for this reason that Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman lobbies for investment not just in early childhood programs – but in families with young children.

httpv://youtu.be/NCeOBd4Simo