New Early Learning Initiative Brings Sesame Street Lessons Into Classrooms
Dozens of grown-ups crowded into a Memphis early childhood center to celebrate a new partner in educating the city’s youngest learners: Elmo and Sesame Street.
High Quality Early Learning is Essential
Video: “Expanding access to high quality early childhood education is among the most important things we can do for our children.”
Building Character in Children: The Early Learning Connection
How does building character in children help build childhood development and learning? A conversation with Character Lab’s Angela Duckworth and Jackie Bezos of the Bezos Family Foundation.
Baby Talk: The Importance of Conversation for Childhood Development
Are words required to create a conversation with a child? Not even close. And it’s not just baby talk.
Online ‘Preschool’ Learning Brings Benefits, Challenges
Online preschool programs may offer additional learning — and a chance for parents, caregivers and children to connect, but challenges exist.
With Executive Function, Child’s Temperament Can Impact School Readiness
Some children naturally have sunny dispositions, and some children don’t. For children who seem naturally shy, fearful, or overly sensitive, these traits may impact their later academic achievement.
Don’t Get Spooked: Halloween Costumes Offer Chance for New Learning
Holidays can offer new opportunities to introduce fresh learning in early childhood education, and Halloween is no exception.
Halloween Books for Early Learning Don’t Have to be Scary
After the candy (OK, maybe before!), parents and caregivers may want to maintain bedtime routines and read to their children. In early learning facilities, teachers and practitioners may want to do the say. Do Halloween books have to scary?
Early STEM Learning: 4 ‘Things to Know’
“There are lots of common misconceptions about how young children engage in STEM learning.” What are they? Read on…
STEM for Preschoolers? 8 Ways to Start
Is it ever too early to introduce STEM to kids? Spoiler alert: No.