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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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Small Groups: Six Essential Program Practices | High-quality relationship-based care is central to children’s early brain development, emotional regulation, and learning (Center on the Developing Child, 2012). One of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) essential program practices for promoting this type of care is the use of small groups (PITC, n.d.). | Document |
Social Determinants of Grief: the Impact of Black Infant Loss | "This webinar, hosted by NICHQ on behalf of Baby 1st Network, will offer insight on how some women of color deal with compounded loss and trauma. Participants will walk away with an opportunity to gain additional knowledge on how to best serve communities of color affected by infant loss." | Website |
Social Emotional Development in the First Three Years | This 2018 brief from Pennsylvania State University offers multiple strategies to improve caregiving and the social-emotional development of young children. | Document |
Social Emotional Tips for Families with Infants | This resource was developed for the Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development with funding by the Office of Head Start. It explains that the quality of each infant’s relationships with familiar adults—especially their parents—sets the foundation for social and emotional health. Social and emotional health is a child’s growing ability to: express and manage a variety of feelings, develop close relationships with others, and explore his/her surroundings and learn (adapted from Zero to Three, 2001). | Document |
Social Emotional Tips for Families with Toddlers | Learn more about the role of parents and caregivers in nurturing toddlers? mental health. The resource provides information about toddlers? social and emotional development and practical strategies for supporting children?s learning during daily routines. | Document |
Songs and Rhymes that Build Readers | Storyblocks is a collection of 30-60 second videos designed to model to parents, caregivers and others some songs, rhymes, and fingerplays appropriate for early childhood.This site has videos of native speakers demonstrating interactive songs in languages including English, French, Spanish, Amharic, Arabic, American Sign Language, Italian, Russian and others. | Website |
Specific Strategies to Support the Development of Executive Function Skills in Infants and Toddlers: 18 to 36 Months | This tip sheet provides ideas to support the development of executive function skills in children 18 to 36 months of age. | Tipsheet |
Specific Strategies to Support the Development of Executive Function Skills in Infants and Toddlers: 6 to 18 Months | This tip sheet describes strategies to support the development of executive function skills in children 6 to 18 months of age. | Tipsheet |
Spina Bifida Association - Infants & Children | Life with a child with Spina Bifida is filled with many emotions – joy, love, worry, exhaustion, and, of course, many questions.Meeting the complex needs of a person affected by spina bifida involves the whole family and can be challenging at times. Finding resources, knowing what to expect, and planning for the future can help. | Website |
Staying safe outside | In this second episode of this two-part series on outdoor play and extending the classroom outside, Brenda Lowe and Dana Ellingson take a deeper dive into the benefits of outdoor play. They discuss the Early Childhood Educator's role in playing outside and also more intentional opportunities utilizing common outdoor and classroom materials that can extend the learning experience that engage children and ignite their natural curiosity. | Podcast |
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