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Early Childhood Education Trends and the Sequestration
While it’s still too early to tell exactly how the passing of the sequestration deadline will affect education as a whole, there is no doubt that it will be felt. When it comes to early childhood...
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Authentic Learning Series: 15 Classroom Literacy Ideas for Early Childhood
Prevention of literacy and numeracy skill gaps in early childhood is a high priority for parents, teachers and educational leaders. To focus on this priority, there are a myriad ways in which we can...
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Authentic Learning Series: 14 Classroom Numeracy Ideas for Early Childhood
This is the second of four articles in a series in which we are sharing some of our favorite ideas for incorporating authentic learning and authentic assessment in both the classroom setting and at...
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4 Benefits of Incorporating Instructional Scaffolding in Early Childhood...
In an instructional setting, the term “scaffolding” or “instructional scaffolding” refers to the guidance and support a teacher offers a student when the student is learning a new concept. In the...
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Details of the President’s Plan on Early Learning Becoming Clearer
After the President’s State of the Union speech in late February we wrote a blog post that highlighted some of his proposed early learning plans, namely a new emphasis on federal-state collaboration to...
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Early Childhood Assessment: 9 Keys to Effective Practice
Recently, we published a paper by Dr. Cindy Jiban, titled Early Childhood Assessment: Implementing Effective Practice. If you are an early childhood educator, specialist or administrator, I highly...
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From Policy to Practice: Coordinated Care in Early Childhood Education
Two Things Missing From the Early Childhood Dialogue If you read any news articles about early education, you’re already familiar with the studies, the trends and the case for investing in our youngest...
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Kids Don’t Get a Second Chance at a Great Start
I’m always excited by the research that comes out of the venerable Sesame Workshop, but it was hard to feel cheery after reading the recently published brief, Kindergartners’ Skills at School Entry. It...
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Ready, Set, STOP!
When I think about my five-year-old starting kindergarten this year, I look forward to the journey ahead. I can’t help but envision a whole group of smiling faces at the starting line of a race. (They...
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