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Word Gap Campaigns. Los Angeles, CA - "Project Goodnight Moon" "Project Goodnight Moon" is a project of Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP), which aims to improve early literacy skills of low-income children.

Word Gap Campaigns

The project plans to reach 1 million parents with information on how to engage their children in positive, open-ended conversations through "Q-Cards" inserted into free children's books. Fresno, County, CA - "Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read Sing" Fresno launched a "Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read Sing" community campaign, with support from Too Small to Fail.

Campaign messages will appear on billboards, bus ads and in paid media spots. State of California - "Talk. "Talk. 6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students. What’s the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, “Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday.”

Yikes! No safety net, no parachute—they’re just left to their own devices. Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Supporting Make-Believe Play - Tools of the Mind. Make-Believe Play at Home Supporting Make-Believe Play.Make-believe play at home Hey, isn’t playing something children just do?

Supporting Make-Believe Play - Tools of the Mind

Isn’t it part of a child’s DNA to know how to play? Well, children still play, but play itself is changing, and not for the better. Children play video games, watch TV, and engage in activities that are not what most adults over the age of 20 “played” when they were children. Artful Thinking. Report by TC Researchers Highlights Segregation and Disparities in Pre-K Classrooms. Published in Research/Publications 4/28/2015 A Better Start: Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education The report, by the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, calls on policymakers to focus on diversity in early education.

Report by TC Researchers Highlights Segregation and Disparities in Pre-K Classrooms

A new report by researchers at TC’s National Center for Children and Families describes troubling racial, ethnic and economic disparities in American preschools and calls on policymakers to focus on the value of diversity in early education classrooms as a means to increase equity and quality for America’s youngest learners. The report was prepared for and funded by The Century Foundation and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, who released it on April 29 at a Capitol Hill briefing in Washington, D.C. It was written by Jeanne L. What is Developmentally Appropriate Math? Douglas H.

What is Developmentally Appropriate Math?

Clements, preschool and kindergarten teacher, Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, Executive Director, Marsico Institute for Early Learning and Literacy, and one of the members of the Common Core work groups, responds (with assistance from Bill McCallum) on the issue of Math standards will be too challenging for young children. Perhaps the most common criticism of the Common Core State Standards-Mathematics (CCSS-M) for young children is that they are not “developmentally appropriate” (e.g., Meisels, 2011).

Unfortunately, the phrase “developmentally appropriate” too often functions as a Rorschach test for whatever a person wants to see or argue against. Often, negative evaluations are based on an implicit acceptance of the view that all “fives” can and especially cannot do certain things. Mind in the Making. Downloads.

Mind in the Making

Inredningsdetaljer - Classroom design/decor. Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research. History can be changed and we are in good company when we look first to the education of our youngest children, not so much what they are taught, but how and where and to what end.

Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research

The continued story of Loris Malaguzzi begins here with his final comments as shared through a series of interviews with Lella Gandini in Chapter 2 of the third edition of The Hundred Languages of Children; History, Ideas, and Basic Principles: An Interview with Loris Malaguzzi: “I know that the rich, adult world hides many things, while the poor one knows neither how nor what to hide. One of the things that it hides with the most rigor and callousness is the condition of children. But also in this world, deception continues, at times cynical and violent, at times more subtle and sophisticated, laced with hypocrisy and illiberal theories. Deception infiltrates even the institutions of early education. As teachers of young children we can all recall the challenges and the joys of our engagement with families.

Learn the Signs. Act Early. Early Childhood Health: Research, Reports & Resources. The National Pre-K and Early Learning Evaluation Center. What is bibliotherapy and how have you used it? Differentiated Instruction Strategies. Why Choose an Outdoor Classroom? Buffettinstitute.nebraska.edu/research/early-childhood-education.aspx. Beyond biology: Using gardens to grow early physics and engineering thinking skills and understanding. Trawick_publications. Nutmeg.easternct.edu/mt-static/early_childhood_education/Hartford Magazine article.pdf. TIMPANI toy study. Toys that Inspire Mindful Play and Nurture Imagination Play is the fundamental way children prepare for the future.

TIMPANI toy study

When children create a make-believe world, build a tower of blocks, or race a friend to the top of a hill, they acquire social and intellectual abilities needed to be successful in school and adulthood. Nearly all meaningful play includes toys. A single, engaging toy can transform a child's play from simple to symbolic, from repetitive to inventive, from solitary to social. The Center for Early Childhood Education has a keen interest in studying how young children play. Nominate a Toy for an Upcoming Study We are now accepting nominations for the 2014 TIMPANI Toy Study. TIMPANI Toy for 2013 There was a tie for the highest-scoring toy in the 2013 study. Nutmeg.easternct.edu/cece/documents/TheCaseforPlayinPreschool.pdf. Trawick_publications. Www.readynation.org/uploads/20131029_WSJResponsePreKOpEd.pdf. Www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/lsey/news_publications/LSEY Research Snapshot three - Engaging families.pdf.

Harvard Graduate School of Education. When it comes to “improving” schools, students, and teachers, there’s no shortage of opinions out there on what won’t work.

Harvard Graduate School of Education

We wanted to know, what could work? For several months, we asked people to tell us one tangible education idea they had that was worth spreading. Some writers are connected to the Ed School, others aren’t. Yes, there’s even an idea from a Muppet. As you’ll see, a few ideas are slight twists on thoughts we’ve heard before; others are quirky and curious. Embrace Failure “Fail early, fail often” is a mantra of many software engineers.

Karen Brennan is an assistant professor at the Ed School who received her doctorate from the MIT Media Lab. Abandon the Clock The current system of education is time-based. Arthur Levine is president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship foundation and president emeritus of Teachers College at Columbia University. Bye Bye Homework I think we shouldn’t have homework. Family Engagement in Transitions: Transition to Kindergarten / News & Announcements / HFRP News. PBS LearningMedia. Early Childhood - Home. Five Numbers to Remember About Early Childhood Development. Brazelton: Listen to the baby. Over the course of my career, I've cared for more than 25,000 children in my private practice, provided guidance and support to thousands of parents and caregivers across the country, and fought on Capitol Hill for parental leave and for special needs children under age three.

Brazelton: Listen to the baby

The message I most often emphasize to parents and caregivers is this: listen to the baby. Babies have so much they can tell us if we just know how to listen. Consider that a child from a high-income family will hear 30 million more words within the first four years of life than a child from a low-income family. This word gap continues to widen as children start elementary school, when it becomes a literacy gap. The amount of conversation children hear from birth through age three directly affects their academic success. Early Learning: Made in the U.S.A.

Today, the U.S.

Early Learning: Made in the U.S.A.

Departments of Education and Health and Human Services headlined a virtual rally for babies, replete with its very own hashtag. The early childhood field, late to the digital Wild West, has finally lit out for the territories. I was so ready to celebrate. New Research: Targeted Parent Training Can Help Students Focus—and Succeed. As the Obama Administration ramps up its push for expanded early childhood education access for all children, it’s important to ensure that preschool quality remains a big part of the conversation. Fortunately, there’s good news on this front from the University of Oregon’s Brain Development Lab. On July 1, researchers Helen Neville, Courtney Stevens, Eric Pakulak, and several co-authors published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that studied the effects of an eight-week “family-based training program designed to improve brain systems for selective attention in preschool children.”

Their research, part of a longer project, showed that targeted parent training led to sustained improvements in student focus, better performance on language and IQ assessments and reductions in parental stress. The researchers tested the training program with a group of low-income students in a Head Start center. To read the research, click here. Regular Bedtime at Early Childhood Crucial for Brain Development : News : ParentHerald.

(Photo : thejbird/Flickr ) Fixing a regular bedtime for sleeping at night during early childhood can boost brain development in children, new research reveals. Putting children to sleep at a regular bedtime during early childhood boosts brain development, a new study claims. Usually parents encourage their little ones to follow the routine, considering it a disciplinary habit. However, the new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health found that a regular bedtime at early childhood had a greater role in a child's life, determining their skills at math, reading and spatial awareness at age seven. Like Us on Facebook. ADA: Heavy in Kindergarten, Obese by Grade 8. CHICAGO -- Kids who were overweight in kindergarten were more than five times as likely to be obese by the time they entered eighth grade as classmates of normal weight, according to a new analysis of data from a large nationally representative longitudinal study.

The Early Child Longitudinal Study showed that 31.8% of kindergartners who were overweight were obese at age 14 versus 7.9% of kids who were normal weight in kindergarten, Solveig Cunningham, PhD, of Emory University reported at the American Diabetes Association meeting here. "Overweight kindergarteners account for 45% of obesity incidence between kindergarten and eighth grade," she said. "After adjustment, they are at 5.3 times the risk of being obese at age 14 as normal-weight kindergarteners. " "Kids who were born large -- over 4,000 grams (8.8 lbs) -- are at really high risk of becoming obese if they are overweight at age 5," Cunningham added.

Among the findings: Cunningham has no financial disclosures. 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About The Common Core. If you have a child in school today, chances are you’ve heard something about the Common Core standards. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have decided to align their instruction to them, promising sweeping changes to classrooms across the country over the next several years. What are these standards? Where did they come from? 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About The Common Core. If you have a child in school today, chances are you’ve heard something about the Common Core standards.

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have decided to align their instruction to them, promising sweeping changes to classrooms across the country over the next several years. What are these standards? Matisse Collages. TOD-ECE-Tech-Resources-poster-upload.pdf (application/pdf Object) Www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/t_is_for_transmedia.pdf. Sites/prek-3rdgradenationalworkgroup.org/files/PreK-3rd NWG Webinars-Summary.pdf. Q&A. A Focus on Play. MLL_12_Myth_Misconceptions_Pearson.pdf (application/pdf Object) Temperament - baby, average, Definition, Description, Common problems. Temperament.pdf (application/pdf Object) Early Childhood Ohio. Digital-and-DAP-webinar-2012-Final.pdf (application/pdf Object) Foundation for Child Development.

Giving Children in Poverty the Best Chance for Success - Ounce of Prevention Fund. Division for Early Childhood, Policy, Advocacy. One of the most powerful tools DEC members have is the ability to use our collective voice to advocate for young children with disabilities and their families. Www.usc.edu/schools/price/research/popdynamics/pdf/2013_Myers_Californias-Diminishing-Children.pdf. Media 101 Training Resources - Ounce of Prevention Fund. Early Childhood - Advocacy and Partnerships for Early Childhood Development. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America's Future. National Council of La Raza. Alliance for A Better Community in collaboration with NCLR , (December 18, 2012)

Cecerdll.fpg.unc.edu/sites/cecerdll.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/%232961_ResearchInformPolicyPaper.pdf. National Head Start Association - Home. Build Ohio. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013 - Introduction. Nineteen years ago, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) joined with six other Federal agencies to create the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Formally chartered in April 1997 through Executive Order No. 13045, the Forum's mission is to develop priorities for collecting enhanced data on children and youth, improve the communication of information on the status of children to the policy community and the general public, and produce more complete data on children at the Federal, state, and local levels.

Academic Content Standards. Children's Technology Review. 10A_18EDST835001: technology websites for educators. ECE Tech Trends in 2012, New Directions for 2013, and Why Tech Integration Matters- A TEC Conversation with Warren Buckleitner. Presenters Dr. Education in the 21st Century. Nieer.org. NIEER Videos. iPad for Teaching & Learning. Long awaited webinar: Dr. Sylvia Chard -Engaging Children’s Hearts and Minds with the Project Approach.

October 3, 2012 2:00 PM Eastern Time. The United States Ranks Behind Many Nations in Preschool Access. September 17th, 2012 by Paul Nyhan The United States is home to long-running Head Start and many state-supported early education programs, but a new study found it is near the bottom in preschool enrollment, ranking 28th out of 38 countries. Global Children's Initiative. In an explicit effort to build an integrated international approach to child survival, health, and development in the earliest years of life, the Center on the Developing Child has launched the Global Children’s Initiative as the centerpiece of its global child health and development agenda. Global Children's Initiative Fact Sheet: Mission & Activities (PDF) >> The Center’s commitment to global work represents both an acknowledgement of moral responsibility to meet the needs of all children and a critical investment in the roots of economic productivity, positive health outcomes, and strong civil society in all nations, from the poorest to the most affluent.

Early Childhood. Real universal preschool: Column. Criminalizing Children at School. Arne Duncan: High-quality preschool is a sure path to the middle class. FPG Child Development Institute. Educare Model Narrows Achievement Gap. Plus, Opportunities to Learn About Early Ed. Early Ed News Clips for September 5, 2012. Thoughts on Early Childhood Research: Improving Connections / Publications & Resources / Early Childhood Education. A Conversation With Richard Rothstein / Publications & Resources / Early Childhood Education. Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework: Promoting Family Engagement and School Readiness from Prenatal to Age 8 / Publications & Resources / Early Childhood Education.

Youth Media In Practice. Curriculum in EC. Curriculum in EC. SPARKing Innovation / Publications & Resources / Early Childhood Education. New Research: Targeted Parent Training Can Help Students Focus—and Succeed. Overview / Early Childhood Education. Promoting Quality Outcome Measurement: A Home-Visitation Case / Publications & Resources / Early Childhood Education.