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.
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Authored by:
Tahnee L. Wilder, Ashley Y. Grays, Fanica Young, Danica Moise, Sharde Theodore
Individuality: Supporting Each and Every Preschooler
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
In this article, we follow Ms. Mena’s kindergartners’ lead to imagine an approach to early childhood social studies that makes space and time for inquiry into compelling social studies questions.
Author Maria Beteta describes how an innocent question became an opportunity to explore powerful concepts such as identity, culture, self-perception, differences, and similarities that connect us all.
The authors in this collection examine their own identities by looking at their histories; reflecting on how their identities that arise from group memberships influence their teaching.
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Authored by:
Barbara Henderson, Isauro M. Escamilla, Megina Baker, Amanda Branscombe, Maleka Donaldson, Debra Murphy, Andrew J. Stremmel
Advancing Equity in Preschool: Practical Strategies
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
Does your use of language and the ways you listen to others support other people to feel truly seen in the spaces, places, and communities you are part of?
To create equitable classrooms and programs, early childhood educators must embrace the concepts of anti-racism and use it to inform their classroom practices.
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Authored by:
Rosemarie Allen, Dorothy L. Shapland, Jen Neitzel, Iheoma U. Iruka
With the infrastructure and steady, deep supports NAEYC advocates, we have the chance to address longstanding questions and issues that prevent teachers of color from achieving their higher education dreams.
With the infrastructure and steady, deep supports NAEYC advocates, we have the chance to address longstanding questions and issues that prevent teachers of color from achieving their higher education dreams.
In this article, we discuss the importance of professional vision, then describe the Video Analysis Framework we created to support its development through focused observation, identifying and disrupting bias, and more.
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Authored by:
Miriam Packard, Carolyn Brennan, Gail E. Joseph, Katharine Emerson-Hoss
While inclusion is an important goal for many families and teachers and is a hallmark of a high-quality early learning program, effective implementation requires planning, intentionality, and collaboration.
Partnering with families is key to developmentally appropriate practice, with two-way, respectful, and collaborative communication at the heart of the partnerships between families of children with ASD and schools.
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Authored by:
Melissa A. Sreckovic, Tia R. Schultz, Christine K. Kenney, Kelly Crenshaw
When planned, implemented, and individualized to meet children’s strengths and needs, inclusive practices can lead to positive outcomes for all children in the form of increased access, membership, participation, friendships, and support.
