Research on early childhood education shows that high - quality child care experiences support the development of social and academic skills that facilitate children's later success in school.
This webinar provides a platform for discussing the identity of the early childhood workforce and how this impacts
on early childhood policies and practices and the recognition of the early childhood profession.
From 2011 to 2012 total federal spending on children decreased 7 percent, and
spending on early childhood programs decreased by 12 percent.
Fight for Children focuses
on early childhood educators, offering programs to expose them to cutting edge techniques and strategic guidance and mentoring.
Building new or stronger partnerships with community agencies that have strengthened their own focus
on early childhood mental health and are providing early childhood mental health consultation services.
Her most recently published books explore approaches to teaching in early childhood and shaping early childhood curriculum and focus
on the early childhood teacher as a reflective practitioner.
Her educational background and research focuses
on early childhood special education with a particular interest in social emotional competence; social interaction and peer relationships; challenging behavior; and communication delays and disabilities.
This PowerPoint presentation was part of a
webinar on early childhood data systems and the relationship between birth to five policy agendas and early elementary reform efforts.
His research focuses
on early childhood science as an ideal context for fostering domain general learning skills like approaches to learning, executive functioning, and social emotional development.
Public
expenditures on early childhood programs are nearly always justified as investments that will eliminate socioeconomic and racial gaps in school readiness and elevate subsequent student achievement and life success.
Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education focuses on a broad range of psychological and educational perspectives related to infants, young children (to age 8), families, and caregivers.
Over the last 20 years significant progress has been made in what we know about the impact of trauma, adversity and toxic
stress on early childhood development.
We build
on the early childhood field's knowledge to enhance existing tools and strategies and to achieve faster progress and bigger results.
This one is based not just on my experiences and observations within the clinic, but
also on some early childhood experiences with my own routine medical care.
There are consequences, intended and not, of defining the purpose of spending
on early childhood almost entirely in terms of school readiness.
He also leads the team's state child care policy work, providing state legislators, advocates, and administrators with technical assistance, research, and
testimony on early childhood policy.
It is generic in that it is not focused
on early childhood specifically but it is a great starting point for everyone wanting to explore cultural awareness.