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Blog
January 5, 2023

Cardboard Challenge: Introducing New Skills in Authentic Ways

To create a community building event with family involvement, we decided to engage in a Cardboard Challenge focused on trees: How could children build a tree with cardboard-like materials and make it interactive?

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Authored by: 
Kelly Bird
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Article
Young Children
December 1, 2022

Six Resources for Making the Most of Family-Educator Conferences

In this article, we present six research-informed resources for making the most of these conferences, with examples of how pre-K teachers received and made use of them.

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Authored by: 
Tricia Zucker, Michael Mesa, April Crawford, Shauna Spear, Sonia Cabell
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Article
Young Children
December 1, 2022

Creating a Breastfeeding-Friendly Early Learning Program

In this article, we share strategies and resources to establish breastfeeding-friendly practices and environments in early childhood settings.

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Authored by: 
Rebecca Dunn, Karrie A. Kalich, Lynn Arnold
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Article
Young Children
December 1, 2022

Exploring Families’ Language Practices Through a Social Studies Inquiry in Kindergarten

his article describes the collaboration between teachers and researchers designing a translanguaging space where bilingual children and their families could explore the linguistic and cultural practices that they engage in at home.

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Authored by: 
Ivana Espinet, Maite T. Sánchez, Sabrina Poms, Elizabeth Menendez
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The cover for the Winter 2022 issue of Young Children magazine, featuring a happy family.
Issue
Young Children
Vol. 77, No. 4
December 1, 2022

Winter 2022

Welcoming in, Learning About, and Learning from Families
This issue of Young Children includes a cluster of articles covering a range of topics about welcoming in, learning about, and learning from families.
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