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MassHealth Information
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
First Steps into Childcare
Learn more about MassHealth’s redetermination process and focus areas for preparing for the end of the continuous coverage requirements.
MassHealth completes renewals every year; this upcoming renewal cycle starting April 1, 2023 is different due to renewal volume and lack of member awareness
First Steps into Childcare
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
First Steps into Childcare
From ABCD Boston:
If you’re looking for a rewarding career working with children and making a difference in their lives, try FIRST STEPS INTO CHILDCARE!
In this program, you will learn everything you need to know to get your teaching career off the ground. For instance, you’ll learn about creating a safe and healthy learning environment; effective teaching methods; how to support children’s social and emotional development, and much more.
First Steps participants will be receiving an online accredited education college course through the Urban College of Boston.
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Let's Play: Teaching Strategies for Playful Learning
Location: Online
Dates: April 17 - May 14, 2023
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Visible Thinking: Using Thinking Routines Effectively to Cultivate Dispositions and Support Learning (VT)
Location: Online
Dates: February 27 - May 28, 2023
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
If pre-K and elementary teachers are going to be better equipped to teach science, they need better training during teacher preparation programs — and that training should be followed by long-term support.
Digging into Data
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
A critical part to monitoring implementation of the Pyramid Model Framework is reviewing and action-planning around classroom implementation data. The Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT) and Teaching Pyramid Infant Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS)provides practitioner coaches concrete information as to how teachers are implementing Pyramid practices in the classroom. After collecting this information coaches, with teachers can build personal action plans that meet the needs of the teacher and their specific classroom.
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
Breaking a complicated concept into bite-sized, digestible pieces.
So, you want to better understand gender, or need help explaining it to someone else?
Used by — and contributed to by — countless people around the world and throughout the decades, the genderbread person (and all of the different evolutions of it, and ideas it evolved from) is a wonderful way to start an important conversation.
The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) today reintroduced the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, a comprehensive and bicameral bill that will ensure that every family has access to high-quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities by establishing a network of federally-supported, locally administered child care options.
Project Bread
The Genderbread Person | A free online resource for understanding gender identity, gender expression, and anatomical sex.
Project Bread
Project Bread Legislative Agenda:
- school meals universally free for all students
- improve nutrition standards for school meals
- encourage sourcing from local producers and processors
National News
The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education
The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education has several position papers available on assessment, standards, and curriculum
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