Help! We are barreling toward the holiday season, and the brakes aren’t working. Know what I mean? The most wonderful...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 2: Online Tips and Activities
Our Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 2 of a a three-part series. Read Part 1 (Offline Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). How...
According to Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek – researchers and co-authors of “Becoming Brilliant, What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children” – language is the single best predictor of how young children will do in school. That’s why they’ve created an innovative, easy way for practitioners to measure students’ verbal progress. 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
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
From “helicoptering” to “snowplowing,” parents are often tempted to simply remove obstacles from children’s way, preventing them from learning how to deal with challenges themselves. Instead, as Ellen Galinsky, Bezos Family Foundation Chief Science Officer and Founder/Executive Director of Mind in the Making, explains, the better approach is to build “Autonomy Support” – helping children gain the independence skills they’ll need to become successful adults. 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
How Can We Make This School Year the Most Playful in History?
Educators and Experts Weigh In
It’s “back to school” time, whether the children in your life are going back to an actual school or to...
Despite working in captivity for most of 2020, we continued to speak with top Early Learning researchers, educators, nonprofit and...
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called Dea Wright the city’s “early childhood education czar.” True to someone entrusted with czarlike power,...
Summer travel is a whole other thing when you’re a parent of young children. The rest and relaxation you’ve been...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
Jackie Counts, director of Kansas University’s Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR), likens the early childhood continuum to the...













