By Megan Carolan, Director of Policy Research Last week, we released a new brief on Outdoor Learning, building from the learnings of our recent Childhood, Unplugged event in Denver. I was delighted to co-author this brief, along with Mary MacKenzie,…
By Megan Carolan, Director of Policy Research As another season of Fuller House debuted this month, viewers like myself who grew up on the original may find themselves focusing on a background character: the house. Throughout the original show and…
by Megan Carolan, Director for Policy Research Last month, ICS shared the news that we’ve received funds from the Nonprofit Finance Fund to continue working with partners in Spartanburg, South Carolina around improved outcomes for families and children through the…
They gathered in an unlikely location, the former Middleton Place plantation in Charleston, S.C., in October for ICS’s Race, Justice and the Young Child leadership seminar: social workers, poets, childcare providers, child abuse prevention advocates, policymakers, and other leaders passionate…
By Megan Carolan Earlier this month, I attended the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcome’s (CEELO) and the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS-SDE) annual roundtable. This year’s theme, “Leading for excellence: Building key…
Reflections on “The Future of Early Childhood Development” Emerging Leaders Retreat Building on an ECD Design Blitz hosted in October 2014, the Institute for Child Success partnered with learning and leadership design firm, Openfields, to empower leaders in ECD with…
The Institute for Child Success and Ferebee Lane are pleased to release Small Steps, which premiered this evening in Greenville, SC. This short documentary film explores the experiences of young mothers with young children and opportunities for design. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLC1tvSC5Y The…
ICS is excited to release the trailer for My Place in the World, a short documentary film that explores the experiences of young moms and their young kids and opportunities for design. The film will premier on November 11, 2014, in…
By Ben Riddle Design thinking is a creative approach towards problem solving that is used across multiple sectors to create human-centered solutions. In recent years, service providers and nonprofits have used design thinking to improve lives for the people they serve…
The work of ICS is driven by a relentless commitment to positively transforming systems to ensure the success of every child in school, their lifelong health, and contribution to a prosperous society. We know that the existing systems are not…