15th Annual Skolnik Lecture on Early Childhood Education & Advocacy
For more information, visit the event page:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/node/317936.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2025-03-26 21:00 2025-03-26 22:30 UTC use-title Location Wolfe Street Building/W1214 (Sheldon Hall) Zoom
Jackie Mader is the early childhood reporter at the Hechinger Report. She just completed a year as a Spenser Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, where she traveled extensively to research and report on early childhood education in places as diverse as Birmingham, Alabama, Des Moines, Iowa, Oslo, Norway, and New York City. She will present at 15th Annual Sandra J. Skolnik Lecture on Early Childhood Education & Advocacy about what's working worldwide in early childcare and education…and what’s not. Most importantly, Mader will address hopeful innovations to create solutions that can be replicated in Maryland.
This will be hybrid event but registration is required. Attendees are eligible for 1.5 Continued Training hours. Participation is limited so advance registration is required by March 25th.
Speaker
Jackie Mader, MS
Jackie Mader is an award-winning journalist based in Austin, Texas. She currently covers early childhood education with an emphasis on policies and programs that impact young children and their families. She also writes a bi-weekly early ed newsletter for The Hechinger Report and supervises all multimedia elements of The Report. In her nine years at Hechinger, she has covered a range of topics including teacher preparation, special education and rural schools. She previously worked as a special education teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and trained new teachers in Mississippi. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, Time, and NBC News and has won several awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Nellie Bly Award from The New York Press Club and a Front Page Award from The Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2021, she was one of two American journalists chosen for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Early Childhood Development. In 2024, she completed the Spencer Fellowship for education reporters at Columbia University.
