Banner
Title
resources
Resource Library
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.
Results: Page 13 of 35
| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Doorka adeeg-bixiyaha/Baraha ee Daryeelka Hore (The Role of the Provider/Teacher in Early Care) | Qaybtan, Bureeqo Dahir, CICC Coach, iyo marti-sharaf gaar ah Marian Hassan ayaa ka wada hadlay doorka baruhu ku leeyahay daryeelka hore iyo goobaha waxbarashada.In this episode, Bureeqo Dahir, CICC Coach, and special guest Marian Hassan discuss the role of the educator in early care and education settings. | Podcast |
| Dr. Yum Project | The Dr. Yum Project is a non-profit organization on a mission to help families and communities overcome barriers to eating well.These barriers include food insecurity, lack of basic cooking skills, misconceptions that eating healthy food must be expensive and time-intensive, unfamiliarity with fresh and whole foods, typical “picky eating”, and a lack of informational resources on how to raise children who enjoy nutritious foods. Physicians may also face barriers to sharing nutrition information with parents, including limited time, confidence, and a lack of practical nutrition education in their training. | Website |
| Early Childhood Development and Screen Use | From the Institute of Digital Media and Child Development:Find out how digital media affects learning, language, and cognitive development in young children in this Children and Screens podcast. The speaker shares historical and recent research that are important for parents, educators, and caregivers. | Website |
| Early Childhood Family Toolkit | This is a toolkit for creating a culture of achievement at home, beginning prenatally through the transition to kindergarten. This guide was developed by the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) in partnership with Little Moments Count on the belief that parents and caregivers are children’s first and most important teachers. | Website |
| Early Childhood Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety Resource List | This comprehensive resource list is from the Office of Head Start National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Saftey. | Document |
| Easter Seals Disability Services | Expanding and developing new child care centers that provide services to children of all abilities is a challenging proposition. Easter Seals has successfully met that challenge through a national network of Child Development Centers. In our experience, two of the major barriers to the operation of and inclusive model are managing the financial resources available and the development of appropriate facilities. On this website, you can order a "Fiscal and Design Solutions Package" that gives you a financial planning booklet and excel workbook as well as a design guide. With a grant from The Child Care Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, Easter Seals has developed two tools to help child care providers address these major barriers to inclusive child care. | Website |
| Eating Healthy at Home | Child Care Aware of America is engaged in partnerships and initiatives with other organizations focused on children’s health. They are proud to partner with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and showcase some of their recent work. Together, the Alliance and Kohl’s Corporation developed the Eating Healthy at Home campaign, focused on helping families take small steps to make the healthy choice the easy choice. | Website |
| Educator Strategies: Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents | This tip sheet offers guidance for educators on using trauma-informed practices to create stable, supportive environments for children affected by parental incarceration. | Tipsheet |
| Effective Classroom Practice: Infants and Toddlers | "During the earliest years, infants and toddlers interact primarily with people. Their interactions with toys are usually in the context of human interaction as well. They need to freely explore, manipulate, and test everything in the environment. Increasingly in today’s world, this includes the exploration of technology tools and interactive media." Here is a guide for the use of technology: Selected Examples of Effective Classroom Practice Involving Technology Tools and Interactive Media from NAEYC. | Document |
| Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children | Corporal punishment – or the use of spanking as a disciplinary tool –increases aggression in young children in the long run and is ineffective in teaching a child responsibility and self-control. In fact, new evidence suggests that it may cause harm to the child by affecting normal brain development. Other methods that teach children right from wrong are safer and more effective. This article is from Robert D. Sege, Benjamin S. Siegel, Council on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. | Document |
Results: Page 13 of 35