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Happy Spring! Your spring fever is kicking in, you’ve got a ton on your plate and pollen is already making...
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called Dea Wright the city’s “early childhood education czar.” True to someone entrusted with czarlike power,...
All Our Kin is an innovative national nonprofit leading the effort to transform the U.S. child care system. Launched 24...
The building block has been such a fact of American childhood for so long, it’s easy to dismiss the humble...
Did you hear the one about the marine biologist who walked into a neuroscience lab? The University of Washington’s Institute...
Cokis is an immigrant mom and grandmother in Arizona. Her struggles with the trauma that she and one of her...
When some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle...
Self control. Attention. Focus. These foundational skills make up a key area of early childhood development: Self-regulation. So what can teachers, parents, caregivers –even children themselves – do to help those skills grow? Oregon State University Professor Megan McClelland explains the science and the practical things we all can do. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Every parent does it. We let our young children use the iPad while we fold laundry or take a quick...
Art and Soul: Teaching Zuni Art Across Generations
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Connects Renowned Artists with Students for Art and Entrepreneurship
On a recent Friday afternoon, student artists at the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project (ZYEP) were busy getting ready for an...
All babies need attention and stimulation. What may be surprising is how little actual instruction they need. Given that the...
