Gateway to Quality staff include: Charlotte Ferretti Principal Investigator Gretchen Ames Project Manager Kathleen Chug Administrative Coordinator Barbra Blender Assessment / Coaching Coordinator Rosamaria Palafox Anchor / Training Coordinator Anchors Kelly Lopez Annabella Tong Assessors and Coaches Betty Rappaport Christine O'Brien Mara Siegel Vivian Alipio "Prepared for Kindergarten - What Does 'Readiness' Mean?" by Debra J. Ackerman and W. Steve Barnett. http://nieer.org/resources/policyreports/report5.pdf "Early Education Quality: Higher Teacher Qualification for Better Learning Environments – A Review of the Literature." Marcy Whitebook, the Founding Executive Director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce and now the Director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, UC Berkeley's Institute of Industrial Relations, recently released this paper that reviews the scientific research literature about the relationship between teacher preparation and child outcome in early care and education. She highlights that BA Degrees are Best for Pre-K Teachers. To download the paper visit www.iir.berkeley.edu/cscce/pdf/teacher.pdf Testimony presented on Dec. 8, 2004 before the Commission on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity proposing an implementation plan for the City of NY on how to realize the goals of the CFE decision. Input from parents, teachers, administrators & educational specialists are included: http://winningbeginningny.org/databank/databank.html Families as Primary Partners in their Child’s Development and School Readiness, 2004. This tool kit was developed by Kathy Hepburn of Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development for Casey to help promote early childhood development and school readiness: http://www.aecf.org/publications/browse.php?filter=5 Preschool California: National Study Raises Alarm About Declining Preschool Teacher Qualifications and Low Pay, 9/15/2005: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=53368 Preschool-Based Prevention of Reading Disability . . . Realities versus Possibilities (MS Word Document) Fostering Language Literacy in Classrooms and Homes (MS Word Document) Cross-Language transfer of phonologial awareness in low-income Spanish and English biligual preschool children . .(PDF document) High-Quality Classrooms: A Key Ingredient to Family Literacy Programs (PDF document) The Comprehensive Language Approach to Early Literacy: The Interrelationships Among Vocabulary, Phonological Sensitivity, and Print Knowledge Among Preschool-Aged Children . . .(PDF document)