Here are five things you can do - in just five minutes per day - to join the movement and make sure early childhood education is being embraced on the road to the White House (and the state house, and the school house!)
On a summer day, three preschool teachers and an early education consultant met to draft a unit on decay. They used this planning session to design a curriculum specific to their own group of children and families on pumpkin decay.
Authored by
Authored by:
Bonnie Blagojevic, Victoria Grotton, Suzen Polk-Hoffses, Karen Thomes
On a summer day, three preschool teachers and an early education consultant met to draft a unit on decay. They used this planning session to design a curriculum specific to their own group of children and families on pumpkin decay.
Authored by
Authored by:
Bonnie Blagojevic, Victoria Grotton, Suzen Polk-Hoffses, Karen Thomes
Early childhood educators encounter many ethical issues in the course of their daily work with children and families. Focus on Ethics presents such an issue and asks readers to determine how an early childhood educator might best respond to it.
We are honored to present this column about a milestone in 20th century American early care and education—the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1962 to 1967. (A second column on the preschool will follow in the November 2016 issue of Young Children.
As a master’s student reflecting on my elementary school education, I realized that the academic knowledge that I gained each year seemed to have been related to the social and emotional feel of the classroom.
The North Carolina Office of Early Learning designed and implemented the Pre-K and Kindergarten Demonstration Program to support educators across the state in developing as early childhood teacher leaders.
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Authored by:
Sharon Ritchie, Eva C. Phillips, Carla Gravitte Garrett
In this issue of Young Children we highlight best practices and quality improvement initiatives currently taking place in different settings across the country.
The children in my class contribute to classroom rules and participate in discussions with teachers about fair consequences. Early in the year, we create a classroom manifesto that distills the community’s belief system