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.
This issue of Young Children focuses on how early childhood leaders and educators determine what, when, and how children learn in educational settings.
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.
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.
NAEYC's Commission on the Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs is pleased to announce that it has granted accreditation to early childhood programs during its Spring 2025 meetings.
NAEYC members and readers have a wealth of expertise and stories to share. We recently gathered their advice for those who are graduating this spring and those who are new to early learning programs. Here are their helpful tips!
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.
