NCPI Executive Leadership Program in Early Childhood Development

NCPI Executive Leadership Program in Early Childhood Development

The Executive Leadership Program in Early Childhood Development (ELP) immerses policymakers, public managers and changemakers in the science, economics, and public policy of early childhood development and prepares them to advance ECD agendas in Brazil.

COURSE AT HARVARD 1 WEEK

The program begins with a week at Harvard in which participants learn about ECD through the lenses of neuroscience, psychology, economics, public policy, evaluation, design thinking and leadership. The schedule includes site visits and group work sessions facilitated by Brazilian technical advisors. At end of the week, groups propose an action plan

ACTION PLAN DEVELOPMENT 3 MONTHS

Over the next few months, the action plan groups work with one another and their technical advisers to further develop their plans, which maybe aim to strengthen existing ECD policies and services or to start something new.

570

Participants have completed the program,

500

of which come from Brazil ACTION PLANS were developed through the program

WORKSHOP AT INSPER 2 DAYS

The program concludes with a workshop in São Paulo in which participants dive deeper into the local context in sessions with Brazilian experts, present their action plans and use the feedback from their colleagues for fine-tuning.

100

Since 2011, NCPI has hosted

8International editions and

2Brazil-based editions of ELP

And, in partnership with Insper has spun off, 3

editions of an online course focused on implementation challenges and strategies

11

Harvard Professors have taught in the program

A CASE STUDY THAT DRCLAS WROTE ON ELP WAS PART OF THE HARVARDX COURSE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION Charles Nelson teaching in ELP class in São Paulo in 2015

“The Harvard-Brazil ECD initiative has provided unique opportunities for me from scientific as well as policy impact perspectives. I have taught annually for the Executive Leadership Program, which has proven to be an effective strategy for helping Brazilian leaders advocate for the development of ECD policies and programs in their country. This program has also helped my research collaborators and me build a powerful network that has ultimately enabled us to set up a major, complex research project that would not have otherwise been possible. Many of the program participants, such as local government authorities, lawyers and judges, and directors of foundations, research institutions and NGOs, are now working with us to comprehensively document and compare the impacts of institutional care and of highquality foster care on early childhood development in São Paulo.” CHARLES NELSON

Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education