Sentences with phrase «early childhood programs»

A positive, strengths - based leadership system is the key to transforming the quality of early childhood programs.

Create a new, competitive grant program to encourage states to design state - level tax programs that increase access to high - quality early childhood programs for children ages 0 to 5.

The legislation makes changes to the reporting of Title I funding, and encourages states to use these funds for early childhood programming.

Many early childhood programs serve increasing numbers of recent immigrant children and families.

These organizations and websites offer information on ways child welfare and child abuse prevention programs work with early childhood programs to improve services to children and families, including State and local examples.

Rather, it will fill major gaps in existing spending on early childhood programs at the state and federal level.

From 2011 to 2012 total federal spending on children decreased 7 percent, and spending on early childhood programs decreased by 12 percent.

Even the benefits for parents from early childhood programs may be long delayed.

For example, implementation may be modified to be culturally responsive, directed to special populations, or offered in conjunction with other early childhood programs as determined by community need.

This work led to the creation of a new tool to serve as a guide to early childhood programs as they respond to the needs of diverse children and families.

The therapeutic early childhood program provides healing and other experiences and relationships for young children.

Last year the state increased early childhood programs by $ 50 million increase.

Its emphasis is across early childhood programs and supports strong professional development systems.

It offers a comprehensive early childhood program in a warm, caring, fun, and friendly environment.

Moreover, this local approach is essential to the sustainability of state efforts as it builds a strong local constituency to advocate and support early childhood programs with their local and state elected leaders.

That's why our goal is to help early childhood programs implement and sustain the use of evidence - based approaches that support the learning and engagement of ALL children.

This video describes the importance of supporting families, collecting data on family outcomes, and using the data to improve early childhood programs.

Many of our schools offer early childhood programs to set your child on a path to success.

Studies have shown that high quality early childhood programs increase the graduation rate, reduce the future crime rate, and can save up to sixteen dollars for every one dollar invested.

Using self - assessment data, early childhood program administrators can develop a blueprint for program quality improvement.

This paper estimates the large array of long - run benefits of an influential early childhood program targeted to disadvantaged children and their families.

Unfortunately, field trips and community exploration are now in danger of disappearing in many early childhood programs.

Focusing on developmental goals, intentional music interventions help children with disabilities become successful in inclusive early childhood programs.

In addition, only about a third of children attended early childhood programs the year before kindergarten.

Nearly 7 in 10 (68 percent) of parents supported increasing the sales tax on sweetened beverages or tobacco products to pay for expanded early childhood programs.

The curriculum is challenging, project - centered, and uses the best practices of successful early childhood programs.

But in fact if you're an advocate of strengthening early childhood programs, as I am, you also need to pay careful attention to the evidence — all of it.

This brief discusses how society can ensure that children have a solid foundation for a productive future by creating and implementing effective early childhood programs and policies.

Recent federal requirements offer an opportunity to establish a new structure or enhance an existing one to assure collaboration among various early childhood programs.

Many early childhood program staff worry that evaluation takes time and money away from the real work of the organization — the work that will directly benefit children.

According to the study's authors, successful early childhood programs not only may lead to higher adult educational achievement, but also to improved health.

Children in early childhood programs do amazing things all day, every day.

Talk a little bit about early childhood programs you've seen that have been effective and what makes them so unusual.

Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high - quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short - and long - term positive effects on children's cognitive and social development.

Her work focuses on examining the relationship between early childhood programs and policies and child outcomes.

If parenting is so important, why don't more early childhood programs measure parenting, when practical validated parenting assessment tools are available?

Interestingly, schools involved have seen early childhood programs begin to influence pedagogy in older year groups.

Larger programs that support early childhood but are not specifically designed to support access to early childhood programs over the long term.

The paper concludes with recommendations for early childhood program leaders, state and federal policymakers, researchers, and philanthropic organizations.

Planning and administering early childhood programs (9th ed.).

The shortages are lower in elementary schools (37 %) and early childhood programs run by school districts (15 %).

In thinking about how to evaluate early childhood programs, we first noticed that some of the reading assessments measured several different literacy skills while others only evaluate one, such as vocabulary identification.

Let's get to work building early childhood programs and systems that are as diverse, inclusive, and equitable as they are high quality!

In a time when only 48 % of children entering kindergarten are ready to learn, strong early childhood programs are more important than ever.

This manual provides information on the roles and responsibilities of child care providers in preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect within and outside early childhood programs.

Fortunately, our members aren't the only ones fighting for critical early childhood programs in this tumultuous political climate.