Effective Curriculum: Designing and Implementing Meaningful Learning for Every Child (Summer 2025)
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What does it take to create and implement a curriculum that fosters the learning and development of all children?
Too little is known about designing and delivering curricula that meet the interests, needs, and strengths of all learners. This issue of Young Children includes examples of curricula that are responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse learners as well as children with disabilities. Articles illustrate that effective curricula can lead to learning and development within and across content areas, address learning goals through experiences inside and outdoors, as well as integrate children’s interests and assets.
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Explore This Issue
Effective Curriculum: Designing and Implementing Meaningful Learning for Every Child
Annie Moses
Teaching and Learning in the Outdoors: Nature as a Springboard for Biliteracy Development
Maria G. Arreguín and Rica Ramírez
From Aloha to Z: Centering Children’s Culture and Language During Alphabet Instruction
Colleen E. Whittingham and Germaine K. Tauati
Planning for Guided Play: A Step-by-Step Guide
Margi Bhansali, Alli Bizon, and Erean Mei
Essential Elements of Infant Curriculum: Individualizing Routines and Partnering with Families
Jennifer M. Langley and Jennifer Gilken
Environment, Materials, and Instruction: Adapting a Curriculum to Support Children with Motor Disabilities
Temrah Okonski
From Investigation to Advocacy: A Preschool Class’s Inquiry-Based Project About Frogs
Victoria Damjanovic and Stephanie Branson
From Our President. Children at the Center of it All! The Role of Children in a Strengths-Based, Play-Based Curriculum
Tonia R. Durden
De nuestra presidenta. ¡Los niños en el centro de todo! El papel de los niños en un plan de estudios centrado en el juego y las fortalezas
Tonia R. Durden
Guiding Quality in Early Learning: The Latest Updates to Our Learning Standards
Stacey French-Lee
Cómo orientar la calidad en la educación de la primera infancia: Las últimas actualizaciones de nuestros estándares de los programas
Stacey French-Lee
The Pedagogical Narrative as a Form of Teacher Research: Stories for Inquiry, Reflection, and Transformation (Voices)
Barbara Henderson
Promoting Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years: Exploring Pattern Blocks and Pattern Block Puzzles
Christina Sales, Seong Bock Hong, and Jill M. Uhlenberg
Rocking and Rolling. Supporting Infants and Toddlers in STEM Exploration: An Inquiry Learning Approach
Sherri Peterson
The Reading Chair
Isabel Baker and Mariam Baker Schiffer