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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
Elementos esenciales de los entornos para infantes y niños pequeños: # 3 Exploración y respeto iniciados por el niño (Essential Elements of Infant &Toddler Environments: #3 Child-Initiated Exploration and Respect) El tercero de una serie de seis elementos esenciales en el diseño de ambientes para infantes y niños pequeños. The third in a series of six essential elements in designing environments for infants and toddlers. Tipsheet
Emergency Preparedness Tip Sheets Use these tip sheets with Head Start and Early Head Start families and staff affected by a crisis or tragic event. Learn to focus on children's responses to these events, as well as ways to help them cope. Website
Emotional Literacy: Using Feeling Faces "The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling posters can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around use of emotional literacy and vocabulary." -National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) Document
Emotional Sensitivity Emotional sensitivity is the ease or difficulty with which a child responds emotionally to situations. Some children are very sensitive to what is going around them while others seem oblivious to the feelings or mood of peers. How can we help children learn empathetic skills and also learn about their own feelings and how to express themselves to others? This podcast will look at children’s sensitivity levels and how we as professionals can guide them in their relationships with others. Podcast
Encouragement and Effective Praise: Part One In the first part of a two-part series on praise and effective encouragement for young children, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel will examine why it is important to use words that encourage a sense of accomplishment and competence in children. Why do we praise children? What makes for effective interchanges? Please listen for tips and tools for talking with your children. Podcast
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