Young Children (YC) is NAEYC's award-winning, peer-reviewed journal that combines research and practice. YC supports educational excellence and focuses on meeting the needs of all children, birth through third grade.
To say farewell to The Reading Chair, we are sharing 10 of the 600 books that have been featured—a small sampling of a collection that captures different themes, genres, and communities for children birth through age 8.
Early childhood education programs play an important role in teacher preparation, “serving as field sites where emerging professionals can develop their knowledge, skills, and dispositions under the mentorship of experienced early childhood educators."
Carlyn Rahynes, founding principal of Learning Through Play Pre-K Center, reflects on lessons learned and the significance of NAEYC's 100th anniversary.
This article details a multifaceted, holistic approach for integrating social and emotional learning within the preschool day and offers ways that early childhood educators can adapt these practices to their own settings.
Authored by
Authored by:
Sara D. Hooks, Jennifer K. Pett, Janese Daniels, Nicole Vasanth
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.
Because of intensified pressure on teachers to improve students’ performance and prepare them for standardized tests, educators and children are now navigating a significant increase in the number of formal assessments they experience yearly.
This is an excerpt from the upcoming NAEYC book No Single Story: Amplifying the Voices of Asian American and Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Early Educators, Native Hawaiian by educator Nicol Russell.
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 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.
Incredible learning unfolds in infant and toddler settings. The period from birth to age 3 represents a time of vast and exciting change as children move from early milestones to more advanced physical achievements.
This issue of Young Children explores what educator agency looks like in action, how it connects to intentional teaching, and how it benefits everyone in the early childhood ecosystem.
Toward Intentional Teaching: The Need for Educator Agency
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.
Celebrate 100 years of early childhood education with three simple activities for your program, plus reflection ideas and music to bring learning to life.
James L. Hymes Jr., a professor of education in New Paltz, New York, wrote the opening excerpt in an article reflecting on the first 25 years of the National Association for Nursery Education, NAEYC’s predecessor.
