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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Essential Elements of Infant & Toddler Environments: #5 Choice | The fifth element in a series of six essential elements in designing environments for infants and toddlers. | Tipsheet |
| Essential Elements of Infant & Toddler Environments: #6 Flexibility and Responsiveness | The sixth element in a series of six essential elements in designing environments for infants and toddlers. | Tipsheet |
| Estrategias para prevenir comportamientos desafiantes (Strategies to Prevent Challenging Behaviors) | Las siguientes estrategias pueden ayudar a prevenir comportamientos desafiantes, así como apoyar positivamente a todos los niños en su programa, ya sea que utilicen o no comportamientos desafiantes de manera constante. The following strategies can help prevent challenging behaviors as well as positively support all children in your program, whether or not they consistently use challenging behaviors. | Tipsheet |
| Evaluating, Developing, and Enhancing Domain-Specific Measures of Child Care Quality | Measures of quality are now in widespread use across states as part of quality improvement initiatives. For example, many states are currently using global measures of quality that were first developed for research and practice purposes (such as the Environmental Rating Scales) in their Quality Rating Systems (QRSs). | Document |
| Facilitating Administrative Change Toward Infant/Toddler Community Services (FACTICS) | FACTICS is an organization offered through Florida State University dedicated to facilitating change in infant/toddler community services. The website offers training modules and workshops based on the organization's steps, which are: Step 1: Identifying your Vision, Step 2: Plannig your Vision, Step 3: Diffusing your Vision, Step 4: Delivering your Vision, Step 5: Living your Vision. It also offers staff development. | Website |
| Family Child Care Orientation Modules | The following modules provide an overview of the DHS licensing process for family child care providers in Minnesota. The modules were designed to be viewed in chronological order but it is not required.Once you start playing the video, you can use the "f" key to play full screen and the "Esc" key to return it to page view on your keyboard. | Website |
| Family Math | Family Math is an emerging movement to promote math activities within the context of family relationships and everyday life, from the grocery store to the playground, during breakfast, bath time or bedtime. The practices inherent in Family Math are designed to help young children strengthen their math skills and feel enthusiastic and confident in their math abilities. This is a link to The National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) website. | Website |
| Family Style Meals | Family style dining is a mealtime approach that child care programs can implement to help support children with healthy eating and developmentally appropriate behavior. This tip sheet covers the importance of family style dining and how to successfully implement this style into an early child care program. | Tipsheet |
| Farm to Early Care Resource List | A list of favorite Farm to Table resources from Renewing the Countryside | Document |
| Farm to Early Childhood Programs: A Step-By-Step Guide | Farm to Early Childhood Programs have evolved from the strong national Farm to School movement as a way of providing fresh, local foods in meal programs that serve the youngest children. Farm to Early Childcare and Farm to Preschool programs focus on purchasing and using fresh, local foods at program sites to promote the development of healthy eating patterns in children from birth to age six. These programs also involve children’s gardens, educational activities related to local food and agriculture, and opportunities for building community partnerships. | Document |
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