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Current Events Taking Place
Lesley University ECE Innovation Series
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
Lesley University ECE Innovation Series
Land as Pedagogy
Date: Feb 7, 2023
Time: 4:30 PM
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NAEYC 2023 Public Policy Forum
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
Lesley University ECE Innovation Series
This year, NAEYC’s Public Policy Forum is back in-person! Join us as we work together to strengthen our advocacy skills, expand our policy knowledge, deepen our relationships, and build our power across states and communities!
Date: February 26-28, 2023
TENTATIVE Dates for Virtual-Only PPF: Sunday, February 12 from 1-4 pm ET and Monday, March 6 from 3-6 pm ET. (Subject to change).
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
Teaching hearing children to sign is an extension of the types of nonverbal communication they already use to get your attention, including facial expression, gesturing, making noise, crawling, toddling toward an object of desire, and more. Focusing on communication has never been more important given lost opportunities during the pandemic to learn and practice language skills.
Date: February 16, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Project Zero
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
Sing & Sign: Supporting Emerging Language through Music, Sign Language, and Play
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
Early Childhood: How to improve early science instruction
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
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.
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 Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act
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
Project Bread
The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act
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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