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."
Early childhood education (ECE) is in the spotlight as never before. Being in the limelight, however, has highlighted the field’s fragmentation and the variability in the quality of children’s formal early learning experiences
Authored by
Authored by:
Stacie G. Goffin, Rhian Evans Allvin, Deb Flis, Albert Wat
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”
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
We present a cluster of articles featuring evidencebased practices that foster the literacy development of children in kindergarten through third grade.
Read the Summer 2015 issue of Voices of Practitioners. Articles include "Using Technology as a Social Tool in the Preschool Classroom" and "Teacher Research as a Professional Development."
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.
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.
Authored by
Authored by:
Louise Derman-Sparks, Debbie LeeKeenan, John Nimmo
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.
Social media websites, as well as the use of smartphones, have become a significant part of our lives. It is not surprising that they have found their way into early childhood programs
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