NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
This issue of Young Children focuses on how early childhood leaders and educators determine what, when, and how children learn in educational settings.
NAEYC is sharing key tools and resources to help ECE programs support educators, families, and children who are immigrants, as well as those who have immigrant friends, families, colleagues, and loved ones.
NAEYC celebrates the life and mourns the passing of Maurice Sykes, former NAEYC Governing Board member and coleader of NAEYC’s Black Caucus Interest Forum.
NAEYC's Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs is pleased to announce that it has granted accreditation to early childhood programs during its Spring 2025 meetings.
Sometimes our listening reinforces what we thought we knew—and sometimes it takes us in directions we didn’t anticipate, identifies consequences we didn’t envision, and helps us find solutions we hadn’t thought of.
In this issue of Young Children, authors present the meaning behind children’s behaviors and developmentally appropriate, equitable ways to respond to them.
As we reflect on what it means to transform our understanding of and approaches to children’s behaviors, let’s consider ways in which we are fostering an environment that supports young children’s social and emotional health and development.
In this issue of Young Children, authors present the meaning behind children’s behaviors and developmentally appropriate, equitable ways to respond to them.
STEM-focused children’s books that span genres and highlight gender-, ability-, culturally, and racially diverse characters enhance all children’s STEM learning.
