The first schools for the very young in the United States did not include playgrounds because they were established prior to the concept of a playground.
Developmentally appropriate practice considers the whole landscape of learning—the motivational, cultural, and social and emotional as well as the cognitive.
Authored by
Authored by:
Christopher Pierce Brown, Beth Smith Feger, Brian Mowry
We present a cluster of articles featuring evidencebased practices that foster the literacy development of children in kindergarten through third grade.
Developing a sense of place through geographic experiences helps build the social and emotional foundation children need and will one day use as adults.
Read the Summer 2015 issue of Voices of Practitioners. Articles include "Using Technology as a Social Tool in the Preschool Classroom" and "Teacher Research as a Professional Development."
This article presents a framework for thinking about the many ways early childhood administrators influence the quality of their programs, and then looks more broadly at the concept of distributed leadership in an organization.
In this article, we present 10 essential understandings about English orthography and examples of how this knowledge can help teachers appropriately support preschool and primary grade children’s literacy development.
In 2009 the program, Kids & Company, decided to become a Nature Explore Classroom. The new outdoor space would become a classroom where all kinds of activities could take place.
