Deborah Stipek
DREME Network Faculty Director
Deborah Stipek’s scholarship concerns instructional effects on children’s achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Stipek has an interest in policies affecting children and education. She served for five years on the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Research Council; she was the Chair of National Research Council Committee for Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn and she directed the MacArthur Foundation Network on Teaching and Learning. While a professor at UCLA, Dr. Stipek served as Director of the Corinne Seeds University Elementary School and the Urban Education Studies Center.
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Blog posts
Advances in Early Math Education: Critical Issues in Policy and Practice
Read more →Building the Conditions for Successful Coaching Programs in School Districts
Read more →What to Do When Your Students Don’t Want to Do Math Activities
Read more →What to Do When Children Don’t Want to Do Math
Read more →California’s Transitional Kindergarten: The Connective Tissue Between Preschool and Kindergarten
Read more →School Leaders Are Key to Connecting Preschool with Elementary School Education
Read more →PreK-12 Is the New Reality: How Do We Make It Work?
Read more →How to Choose High-Quality Math Apps for Preschoolers
Read more →On Child Care, Newsom and His Budget Could be Bolder
Read more →Making Circle Time Count
Read more →The Value of Early Education: Why the Fade Out Effect Does Not Mean We Should Give Up on Preschool
Read more →Publications
How parents can support math learning at home and through everyday activities
Authors: Stipek, D.
2024 in Child & Family Blog
School leaders are key to bringing early childhood education into elementary school
Authors: Stipek, D., Borsato, G. & Coburn, C.
2022 in Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (DREME)
PreK-12 is the new reality: How do we make it work?
Authors: Stipek, D. & Coburn, C.
2021 in Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (DREME)
California’s transitional kindergarten is the connective tissue between preschool and kindergarten
Authors: Stipek, D.
2022 in Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (DREME)
Building infrastructure to support coaching programs in school districts
Authors: Stein, A. & Stipek, D.
2022 in Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (DREME)
Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood education redefined: The case of math
Authors: Stipek, D. & Johnson, N.
2020 in Advancing Knowledge and Building Capacity for Early Childhood Research
PreK–3 alignment challenges and opportunities in California
Authors: Koppich, J. & Stipek, D.
2020 in Policy Analysis for California Education
What does the Tennessee pre-K study really tell us about public preschool programs?
Authors: Weiland, C., Bassok, D., Phillips, D., Cascio, E., Gibbs, C. & Stipek, D.
2022 in Brookings
The other evidence on free pre-K: The Tennessee study doesn’t discredit the effort to help disadvantaged children
Authors: Haas, M. & Stipek, D.
2022 in The Wall Street Journal
How to make math fun
Authors: Stipek, D.
2017 in Bay Area Parent
PreK-3 alignment in California’s education system: Obstacles and opportunities
Authors: Valentino, R. & Stipek, D.
2016
PK–3: What does it mean for instruction?
Authors: Stipek, D.
2017
PreK-3 alignment: Challenges and opportunities in California
Authors: Koppich, J. E. & Stipek, D.
2020 in Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE
Prevent fadeout
Authors: Stipek, D.
2020 in Principal Magazine
Quality and Continuity in Young Children’s Educational Experiences
Authors: Stipek, D.
2019
Fostering Pre-K to Elementary Alignment and Continuity in Mathematics in Urban School Districts: Challenges and Possibilities
Authors: Coburn, C., McMahon, K., Borsato, G., Stein, A., Jou, N., Chong, S., LeMahieu, R., Franke, M., Ibarra , S. & Stipek, D.
2018
We mustn’t make preschool less fun for the 4-year-olds who need more help.
Authors: Stipek, D.
2017 in Hechinger Report
Playful math instruction in the context of standards and accountability
Authors: Stipek, D.
2019 in National Association for the Education of Young Children
Should Children Be Ready for Kindergarten—Or Should Kindergarten Be Ready for Children
Authors: Stipek, D.
2019 in Education Week