Bleiker, Charles

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Bleiker, Charles Graduate Faculty

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Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

bleikerc@fiu.edu

biography

Charles Bleiker has been an early childhood educator for over 30 years. He began his career as a preschool teacher, and after graduate school, he began teaching at the University of New Mexico. He has been at FIU since 2001, working to prepare teachers and improve early childhood education in Miami.

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2021
  
  School readiness skills at age four predict academic achievement through 5th grade. EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY. 57:110-120.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.05.006 Web of Science: 000689520000010
- 2020
  
  How profiles of school readiness relate to grade 3 performance among low-income ethnically- and linguistically-diverse children. APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE. 26:267-289.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2020.1781633 Web of Science: 000549502700001
- 2019
  
  Preschool Literacy Intervention for Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Children: Effects of the Early Authors Program Through Kindergarten
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10824669.2019.1594818 Web of Science: 000470065100002
- 2017
  
  Preschool writing and premathematics predict Grade 3 achievement for low-income, ethnically diverse children. JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. 110:528-537.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2016.1145095 Web of Science: 000401521900008
- 2012
  
  Child, Family, and Childcare Predictors of Delayed School Entry and Kindergarten Retention Among Linguistically and Ethnically Diverse Children. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 48:1299-1314.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0026985 Web of Science: 000307935600010
- 2008
  
  "Read My Story!" Using the Early Authors Program to Promote Early Literacy Among Diverse, Urban Preschool Children in Poverty
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10824660701860458 Web of Science: 000409803900004
- 2008
  
  School readiness gains made by ethnically diverse children in poverty attending center-based childcare and public school pre-kindergarten programs. EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY. 23:314-329.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.02.003 Web of Science: 000259730400002
- 2006
  
  Identity Texts and Literacy Development among Preschool English Language Learners: Enhancing Learning Opportunities for Children at Risk for Learning Disabilities. TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD. 108:2380-2405.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/016146810610801104
- 1999
  
  Toddler friendship? The case of Hiro and John
  Web of Science: 000083687000004
- 1999
  
  The Development of Self through Art: A Case for Early Art Education
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3193804
- 1998
  
  Teaching young children: An analysis of the art studio method of instruction. JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER EDUCATION. 19:235-243.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/0163638980190307
- 1996
  
  Central spatial structures and their development. MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 61:103-130.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.1996.tb00539.x Web of Science: A1996UM30900005
- 1996
  
  Cross-cultural investigations. MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 61:131-155.
  Web of Science: A1996UM30900006
- 1996
  
  Exploring the macrostructure of children's central conceptual structures in the domains of number and narrative. MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 61:59-82.
  Web of Science: A1996UM30900003
- 1996
  
  The role of central conceptual structures in the development of children's thought. MONOGRAPHS OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 61.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1166077
- 1987
  
  A 4-STATE EEPROM USING FLOATING-GATE MEMORY CELLS
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.1987.1052751 Web of Science: A1987H276300026
- Differential Third-Grade Outcomes Associated With Attending Publicly Funded Preschool Programs for Low-Income Latino Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 88:1743-1756.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12663 Web of Science: 000409182100029
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Conference
- 2006
  
  Identity texts and literacy development among preschool English language learners: Enhancing learning opportunities for children at risk for learning disabilities. TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD. 2380-2405.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00786.x Web of Science: 000241390400009

chaired theses and dissertations

Muelle, Christina More, The Relationship Between Prekindergarten Social and Emotional Development and Academic Success among Hispanic Children from Low-Income Families 2010

principal investigator on

Kellogg / SPARK Childhood Evaluation Initiative awarded by Early Childhood Initiative Foundation 2007 - 2008
Early Reading First - LEARN. awarded by Early Learning Coalition of Dade/Monroe 2007 - 2008

co-principal investigator on

Grant
- Long Term Follow-Up of School Success awarded by Children's Trust 2009 - 2010
- Long-Term Follow-up of School Success. awarded by Children's Trust 2008 - 2009
- Long-Term Follow-up of School Success in Grades 3 through 5 for Children Attending Different Childhood Programs in Miami-Dade. awarded by Children's Trust 2007 - 2008
- Educating Mothers and Babies in Early Readiness Skills III. awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2005 - 2006

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