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Blog
December 24, 2015

10 Ideas for Professional Renewal in the New Year

Here are 10 ideas and inspirations from our blog, journals, and website to foster your professional renewal in the new year

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Michael Coventry
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Young Children
September 1, 2015

Focus on Ethics: A Difficult Working Relationship: The Response

Responses provided by early childhood educators who reflected on the most ethically defensible course of action for a young teacher facing a challenging dilemma at work.

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Stephanie Feeney, Nancy K. Freeman
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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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Paula Jorde Bloom, Michael B. Abel
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YC May 2015 Issue
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Young Children
Vol. 70, No. 2
May 1, 2015

May 2015

Leadership: Supporting a New Generation of Early Childhood Professionals
YC May 2015 Issue
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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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Rhian Evans Allvin
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Teaching Young Children
April 1, 2015

Five Questions Asked at Every Teaching Interview

A teacher shares the five interview questions she was always asked during her job hunting experience for a pre-K teaching position at a public school.

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Brianna Franco
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Teaching Young Children
June 1, 2014

10X: Sharing Your Practice

Here are some ways to share your stories and establish mutually respectful and professional relationships with fellow teachers.
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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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