NAEYC celebrates the life and mourns the passing of Maurice Sykes, former NAEYC Governing Board member and coleader of NAEYC’s Black Caucus Interest Forum.
Our new member magazine Educating Young Children offers practical, ready-to-use ideas for all early childhood educators as well as educators who prepare and support them.
Michelle Zurita-Sharpe is a special education teacher in a blended pre-K classroom at Blair Early Childhood Center, a Chicago public school. Blair serves children in prekindergarten through second grade.
Sometimes our listening reinforces what we thought we knew—and sometimes it takes us in directions we didn’t anticipate, identifies consequences we didn’t envision, and helps us find solutions we hadn’t thought of.
In this issue of Young Children, authors present the meaning behind children’s behaviors and developmentally appropriate, equitable ways to respond to them.
As we reflect on what it means to transform our understanding of and approaches to children’s behaviors, let’s consider ways in which we are fostering an environment that supports young children’s social and emotional health and development.
In this issue of Young Children, authors present the meaning behind children’s behaviors and developmentally appropriate, equitable ways to respond to them.
STEM-focused children’s books that span genres and highlight gender-, ability-, culturally, and racially diverse characters enhance all children’s STEM learning.
