Thousands of child care providers surveyed by NAEYC document a year of tough choices as rising costs, reduced public funding, and educator burnout threaten families and the economy.
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.
What is the relationship between the type and amount of professional support accessed by ECE educators and their self-reported intentions about staying or leaving the ECE field?
Authored by
Authored by:
NAEYC’s Applied Research and Policy and Professional Advancement Teams
In this article, my coauthors, who took my early education management and leadership course in 2023, share their experiences teaching to and learning from their peers as a part of their final presentation assignments.
Author Maria Beteta describes how an innocent question became an opportunity to explore powerful concepts such as identity, culture, self-perception, differences, and similarities that connect us all.
To empower our children to embrace their own identities and the diversity around them, we need to first engage in identity-affirming, self-reflective practices ourselves.
Feelings of being an imposter, along with the delicately woven systems of oppression that exist in schools, often stop educators from sharing their true identities.
The authors in this collection examine their own identities by looking at their histories; reflecting on how their identities that arise from group memberships influence their teaching.
Authored by
Authored by:
Barbara Henderson, Isauro M. Escamilla, Megina Baker, Amanda Branscombe, Maleka Donaldson, Debra Murphy, Andrew J. Stremmel
Advances in Understanding Child Development and Learning: Through a Lens of Equity
This issue of Young Children highlights key child development concepts, such as agency and funds of knowledge, emphasizing the need to deepen our knowledge of child development and learning through a lens of equity.
In this article, I offer four mindset shifts that are needed, and I also share recommendations to consider as we in the field work together to make transformative change.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2022 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 18th year as an online journal.
In his teacher research, Ron Grady investigates how play can support and scaffold a favorite domain of so many early childhood professionals—language and literacy.
This article outlines how teachers can use storytelling, empathy, perspective taking, and community engagement to foster ethics learning in the classroom.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2021 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 17th year as an online journal.
مع توفر مجموعة واسعة من الخيارات المتزايدة في التعقيد فيما يخص تعليم الطفولة المبكرة نجد أن المعلمات والإداريات يقمن بصورة دائمة بعملية تقييم للنماذج والنُهج والمواد التي تدعم تعلم الأطفال وأكثرها نجاعة في ذلك
In his teacher research, Ron Grady investigates how play can support and scaffold a favorite domain of so many early childhood professionals—language and literacy.
