NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

Learn what position statements are, how they advance the field, and the ways in which your involvement has been critical to the revision process.

NAEYC President Tonia R. Durden invites members to consider the role children play in effective, play-based curricula.

This issue of Young Children focuses on how early childhood leaders and educators determine what, when, and how children learn in educational settings.

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. 

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.