Center for Early Childhood Education

The Center for Early Childhood Education at Eastern Connecticut State University is a multidisciplinary research and training institute. The Center brings together researchers, educators, trainers, students, practitioners, and policymakers from a variety of disciplines to share ideas, resources, research findings, and techniques for working with young children and their families.

The Center's mission is to promote best practices in early childhood education, through research and research dissemination, professional development, consultation, partnerships and the use of video resources in furtherance of the mission.

The Center conducts an annual TIMPANI Toy Study under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Trawick-Smith. The ongoing empirical study looks at how young children in natural settings play with a variety of toys and identifies toys that best engage children in intellectual, creative, and social interactions in preschool classrooms. The recipient of the 2011 TIMPANI Toy Study award was announced in November 2011. Learn More



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