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Voices of Practitioners, Winter 2015, Volume 10

Read the Winter 2015 issue of Voices of Practitioners. Articles include "The Effect of Peer Support on Transitions of a Child with Autism" and "Teacher Research as a Form of Inspiration, Influence, and Mentoring."
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Blog
October 1, 2015

Making Sense of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Study

Recent findings from an evaluation of Tennessee’s voluntary pre-k programs have prompted waves of commentary from a host of national and state media. The headlines include words like “shocking,” “bucks conventional wisdom,” “calls into question”

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Authored by: 
Kyle Snow
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Blog
September 8, 2015

We Won't Bridge the Achievement Gap Until We Bridge the Word Gap

In 1995 a world-famous study by researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley found that some children heard thirty million fewer words by their 4th birthdays than others. The children who heard more words were better prepared when they entered school

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Authored by: 
Dana Suskind
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Young Children
September 1, 2015

It’s Elementary! Supporting Literacy in the Primary Grades

We present a cluster of articles featuring evidencebased practices that foster the literacy development of children in kindergarten through third grade.

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Authored by: 
M. Deanna Ramey
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Young Children
May 1, 2015

Expanding the Lens—Leadership as an Organizational Asset

This article presents a framework for thinking about the many ways early childhood administrators influence the quality of their programs, and then looks more broadly at the concept of distributed leadership in an organization.

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Authored by: 
Paula Jorde Bloom, Michael B. Abel
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Young Children
May 1, 2015

Building Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs: The Role of the Leader

An anti-bias early childhood care and education (ECCE) program puts diversity and equity goals at the center of all aspects of its organization and daily life.

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Authored by: 
Louise Derman-Sparks, Debbie LeeKeenan, John Nimmo
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Blog
April 2, 2015

Resources and Tools to Elevate the Early Childhood Profession

We are working on behalf of our members and the field on a number of projects and initiatives that focus on bolstering the profession and aligning content and resources around the science behind best practices that support how children develop and learn.

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Authored by: 
Rhian Evans Allvin
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YC March 2015 Issue
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Young Children
Vol. 70, No. 1
March 1, 2015

March 2015

Blocks: Great Learning Tools From Infancy Through the Primary Grades
YC March 2015 Issue
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About Voices of Practitioners

Voices of Practitioners publishes articles on teacher research and supporting teacher research. Voices of Practitioners welcomes submissions! See the manuscript guidelines to submit to any of the sections.
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Voices of Practitioners

Voices of Practitioners is an online peer-reviewed journal published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children
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Young Children

Young Children is NAEYC’s award-winning, peer-reviewed journal focused on educating children from birth through third grade
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Teaching Young Children

Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers
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