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Dear John,
We hope the first few months of the school year have gone smoothly for you, your staff, and the children and families in your care. Start Early consultants, practitioners and researchers have been focused on identifying the most pressing issues in ECE and partnering across the field to improve our early childhood systems to better serve children and families in need. We hope you’ll continue to partner with us to achieve even greater impact.
Best,
Start Early Professional Learning Team |
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Read Dr. Cooper's recent blog post on the state of ECE
Dr. Barbara Cooper Asks ECE Leaders to Act Now“It is beyond time for us to do something. I certainly hope in my lifetime we will once and for all comprehensively address and fix our Prenatal to Age 5 early care and education challenges.”
In a new blog post, Start Early Senior Vice President of Professional Learning, Barbara Cooper, Ph.D, discusses her recent experience as a panelist at The Hunt Institute Summit and shares her reflections on challenges and opportunities to improve the current early childhood system in America. |
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See you at NAEYC Annual Conference in November!
Start Early Presents on Equity and Inclusion Start Early will be presenting at the upcoming NAEYC Annual Conference, taking place in Anaheim, CA on November 6-9, 2024 . If you plan to be there, we invite you to join our sessions. See details below:
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November 6, 2024 - Building community through equitable behavior management and nurturing relationships*
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November 9, 2024 - Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society”: Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in ECE using data
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November 9, 2024 - Empowering Inclusive and Equitable Leaders with Embedded Learning Routines
*CEU credits available |
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¡La Harramienta NEAR@Home está ya disponible en español!
NEAR@Home Toolkit Available in Spanish!
We’re thrilled to share that the newest edition of the NEAR@Home Toolkit is now available in both English and Spanish and can be downloaded for FREE!
The science-based NEAR@Home toolkit walks home visitors and supervisors through the core elements of a NEAR home visit – a five-step approach to safely, respectfully, and effectively create a trauma-informed and hope-filled home visit. The 4th edition of the toolkit has been optimized based on the thoughtful input and real-life experiences of home visitors and family practitioners across the country. |
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Partner Spotlight
Using Reflectable to Address Children's Social-Emotional NeedsThe Collaboration for Early Childhood (The Collaboration) creates equitable, nurturing and interconnected systems of support for families and organizations supporting children birth to age five. The Collaboration recently identified that teachers across their region were feeling ill-equipped to address children’s “challenging” behaviors. In partnership with a local occupational therapist, The Collaboration created a professional development program to help teachers support children’s sensory, social-emotional, and developmental needs to foster children’s positive behaviors in their learning environments.
Through a partnership with Start Early, The Collaboration provided teachers access to Reflectable - a digital tool that builds foundational knowledge around social emotional learning and offers guided weekly self-reflection. As a result of the partnership, and significant support from Collaboration staff and the occupational therapist, teachers reported a strong increase in children's positive behaviors, a significant decrease in negative behaviors, and an overall increase in their own feelings of self-efficacy.
The Collaboration for Early Childhood
"Reflectable is a great, user-friendly tool, that helped our participating teachers set meaningful, bite-sized goals for themselves. They reported learning lots of new strategies from the training, and Reflectable helped them find clear, tangible ways to incorporate that new learning into their day-to-day practices. Reflectable has helped us measure program impact and helped the participating teachers not only see their progress but see things they are already doing in support of their students."
– Shannon Ellison Director of Programs and Contracts, The Collaboration |
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