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| Holidays in a Diverse World: Applying Anti-Bias Thinking to Curriculum | "Acknowledging or celebrating holidays in early learning programs can bring pleasure to many families, staff, and children and can be useful in building connections between programs and families. However, holidays also pose a range of challenges to ensuring that all children, families, and staff feel respected and that children learn about a diverse world. Whether or not to include any holidays in your curriculum, and what activities to use if you do, requires thoughtful decision making.In this blog, which is an excerpt from the second edition of Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, with Catherine M. Goins, offer considerations about how programs and teachers can think about and take an anti-bias approach to holidays in their settings." | Document |
| Home Solutions to Cope with Sensory Processing Issues and Sensitivities | Because of misguided brain signaling, specific sensory triggers – of any sense - can become absolutely debilitating and unbearable. | Document |
| How babies decide who to "chat up" | Babies who understand only one language just assume that other people do, too. A new study, that also finds the same assumption is not held by bilingual babies, may clarify how babies decide whom is worth having a "conversation" with, researchers say. Results not only offer insight into infants' perception of linguistic abilities, but, more importantly, may help to better understand whom they see as good communication partners. | Document |
| How Can I Prevent Gender Bias? | This resource from the Anti-Defamation League highlights a variety of measures adults can take to create fair and gender equitable environments for young children. | Document |
| How Caregivers Can Boost Young Brains | Ordinary back-and-forth interactions between a caregiver and child can shape brain architecture in powerful ways, creating a strong foundation for future learning. Here are five simple ways for parents, caregivers and early educators to practice these interactions. | Document |
| How Children Experience Divorce | Every child is unique. Every child will react differently to divorce. Many things affect how a child responds to divorce. For one thing, children have different understandings of and feelings about divorce. It can help if parents know what children think and feel. This article will explain how many children respond to divorce. This may help you to better understand your children's experiences. | Document |
| How Children's Social Competence Impacts Their Well-Being in Adulthood | New research findings suggest that kindergarten children who were rated by their teachers as demonstrating greater social competence skills (resolves peer problems, listens to others, shares materials, cooperates and is helpful) in kindergarten were more likely to attain higher education and well-paying jobs in adulthood. Children rated as demonstrating weaker social competency skills were found to be more likely to drop out of high school, abuse drugs and alcohol, and need government assistance. A summary of the study, How Children's Social Competence Impacts Their Well-Being in Adulthood (July 2015), provides an overview of major findings and implications for further action. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the American Journal of Public Health (July 2015). | Document |
| How Does Occupational Therapy Help Children? | In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what occupational therapy is and how an OT works with children around self care skills, sensory needs, and fine motor development. | Podcast |
| How is Child Care Quality Measured | This February 2016 toolkit, How is Child Care Quality Measured?, is for anyone interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants from birth to age 3. Sections document why quality is important, aspects of quality that are important to measure, instruments for assessing quality, and considerations for ongoing quality. | Document |
| How Parents Widen or Shrink Academic Gaps | High-income parents are often more involved with certain activities at their children's school than lower-income parents - volunteering in their children's school, attending school meetings, and so on - experiences that can link them to more opportunities and resources for their children and more influence in schools. A recent article, How Parents Widen--or Shrink--Academic Gaps(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/04/19/how-parents-widen--or-shri…) in Education Week takes a look how those differences in parent involvement can create hidden disparities that are easy for schools to overlook but hard for poor families to overcome. If you are interested in engaging each and every family member to support their child/ren?s full participation, this article will provide some compelling evidence. | Document |
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