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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 |
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| How Does the ADA Relate to Child Care? | Child care is considered a public accommodation under the ADA and so must comply with the civil right mandates of access and non-discriminatory policies and practices for children and their families. This tip sheet covers expectations for child care programs under the ADA. | Tipsheet |
| How is Child Care Quality Measured | This February 2016 toolkit, How is Child Care Quality Measured?, is for anyone interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants from birth to age 3. Sections document why quality is important, aspects of quality that are important to measure, instruments for assessing quality, and considerations for ongoing quality. | Document |
| How Parents Widen or Shrink Academic Gaps | High-income parents are often more involved with certain activities at their children's school than lower-income parents - volunteering in their children's school, attending school meetings, and so on - experiences that can link them to more opportunities and resources for their children and more influence in schools. A recent article, How Parents Widen--or Shrink--Academic Gaps(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/04/19/how-parents-widen--or-shri…) in Education Week takes a look how those differences in parent involvement can create hidden disparities that are easy for schools to overlook but hard for poor families to overcome. If you are interested in engaging each and every family member to support their child/ren?s full participation, this article will provide some compelling evidence. | Document |
| How Play Promotes Cognitive Development | Play promotes the development of a multitude of cognitive skills. When children participate in play and have opportunities to become fully involved in what they are doing, and they develop more sophisticated and complex ways of thinking. | Tipsheet |
| How Sleep Savvy are You? A Tool for Reducing Infant Sleep Related Deaths | The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality has made available a short video quiz that can be used as an interactive, visual tool to prompt discussions about safe sleep best practices. | Website |
| How the World Potty Trains | In this article from CNN Health, "experts weigh in on how parents around the world potty train their little ones. From the age it starts to the methods used, potty training is different around the world." | Document |
| How to Adapt Math Card Games to Children’s Skill Level | Here is a great resource from the Erikson Institute. "Card games provide meaningful practice of the basic number combinations. Becoming automatic with basic number combinations is the key to computational fluency. These common math card games that children learn in school or at home can be revisited many, many times and can be adapted to children’s own math skills as they develop over time." | Website |
| How To Clean and Disinfect Schools To Help Slow the Spread of Flu | Cleaning and disinfecting are part of a broad approach to preventing infectious diseases in schools. To help slow the spread of influenza (flu), the first line of defense is getting vaccinated. Other measures include staying home when sick, covering coughs and sneezes, and washing hands often. Below are tips from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to slow the spread of flu specifically through cleaning and disinfecting. | Website |
| How To Communicate With Non-verbal Children During Meal Time | From Monica Pujol-Nassif at TeachStone: "Children who are nonverbal are always communicating with us. In fact, according to Dr. Mehrabian, 93% of our communication is nonverbal in nature. Yet, just because children who are nonverbal might not be speaking to us, educators can still have a reciprocal interaction. Try focusing on their facial expressions, following their gaze, and looking at what they pointing to. Interpret their input, and check for confirmation. Facilitate technological devices and apps that speak for them, and make available visuals they can use to show us what they want, think, need, fear, or are interested in. Lunchtime might post a more challenging time to incorporate these ideas. Here are some additional ways to support nonverbal communication during mealtimes." | Website |
| How to Create a Backyard Sanctuary for Kids with Disabilities by HomeAdvisor | Children of all abilities and needs should have room to play and explore their world. In fact, play is so important for a child’s development that the United Nations declared play is a human right for children. Making your home a place where a child with special needs can be active takes more than a look around. You’ll want to brainstorm ways the outside can be an inclusive sanctuary for children of all abilities, too. | Website |
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