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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Questions to Ask When Looking for a Dental Office | "It can be difficult to find a dental office that works for you and your child. This tip sheet from Head Start - ECLKC provides examples of some questions that you can ask dental office staff before you decide to make an appointment." | Document |
| Questions to Ask When Seeking Child Care for Children with Special Needs | A tip sheet with guiding questions for family members to use when seeking an early care and education program for a child with special needs. | Tipsheet |
| Questions to Ask When Seeking Child Care: Setting Your Child Up for Success | When seeking child care, how do you find the information you need to set your child up for success and avoid expulsion? As you interview potential caregivers, it helps to be proactive. Start the conversation with the questions on this tip sheet. | Tipsheet |
| Qué hacer cuando los niños muerden (What to do When Children Bite) | Morder es una de las formas en que los niños pequeños expresan sus necesidades, deseos o sentimientos. Una vez que comprenda por qué y cuándo es probable que un niño muerda, puede intentar cambiar las situaciones para evitarlo. Esta hoja de consejos proporciona estrategias para usar con los niños que muerden. Biting is one of the ways young children express their needs, desires, or feelings. Once you understand why and when a child is likely to bite, you can try to change situations in order to prevent it. This tip sheet provides strategies to use with children who bite. | Tipsheet |
| QUICK GUIDE: Early Childhood Suspension and Expulsion | During the Minnesota 2020 Special legislative session, Minnesota took a significant step toward assuring the success of students by facilitating equitable access to high-quality, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive early childhood education programs for preschool-aged children. This document will provide guidance to understand the terms of the 2020 Special Legislative session early childhood amendment to the Pupil Fair Dismissal Act (PFDA) and provide resources for administrators and teachers leading this work. | Document |
| Radon and Your Health | Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoking. If you smoke and live in a home with high radon levels, you increase your risk of developing lung cancer. Having your home tested is the only effective way to determine whether you and your family are at risk of high radon exposure. | Document |
| Raising Young Children in a New Country: Supporting Early Learning and Healthy Development | Refugee and immigrant families come to the United States with a wealth of parenting strengths, drawing on culture, tradition, and family experience. Like most parents in the US they tend to be responsible and nurturing, and have often sacrificed tremendously to provide their children with an opportunity for safety and success in this new country. At the same time, newcomer parents have experienced incredible loss, including the loss of extended family members, community, and homeland, and they must adapt to new traditions and lifestyles that are often at odds with their own beliefs and practices. Refugee and immigrant families also must overcome cultural, language, and practical barriers to access the community services they need, while these services must also learn about the newcomer families in their communities and how best to serve them. | Document |
| Ratio and Group Size Standards for Licensed Child Care | Staff-to-child ratios, group sizes, and age distributions for child care centers and family child care settings are critical standards that ensure a minimum level of safety, supervision, and quality in child care. The standards vary based on setting, the age of children in care, and the concentration of children from each age group. These standards are set forth by Minnesota law. Minnesota Rules, chapter 9503 (?Rule 3?) defines the standards for child care centers, and Minnesota Rules, chapter 9502 (?Rule 2?) governs family child care and group family child care. | Document |
| Reach Every Child-Special Education | Reach Every Child-Special Education website offers addresses and phone numbers for switches, joysticks, sign language, posters, as well as other organizations related to special education. One needs to click on "special education" to get to those resources. | Website |
| Reading Aloud, Play and Social Emotional Development | Research findings published in Pediatrics documents that infants and toddlers who were read to by family members had notable social-emotional skill advantages when they started school. | Document |
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