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Author: Chudler, Eric
Description: This article discusses how the brain develops and includes many diagrams and graphs. It also includes a listing of resources for further information and links to studies, articles, and videos.
National Association for Gifted Children
Description: This website provides information about the unique needs of all children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational experiences.
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Recognition and Response: Pathways to School Success for Young Children
Description: RecognitionandResponse.org is a comprehensive online resource that provides educators with information about this cutting edge approach to early education. This site offers information and resources to help early educators address the needs of young children (3 to 5 year-olds) who show signs that they may not be learning in an expected manner, even before they begin kindergarten.
Standardized testing for young children? Not Yet!
Description: This position paper outlines reasons why standardized tests may not be a good means of assessment of young children. This article is dated but the points are relevant and concise.
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Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading.
Ability to Catch Dyslexia Early May Help Stem Its Effects
Author: Norton Lasley, Elizabeth
Description: New educational approaches and advances in brain-based research are making it possible to detect dyslexia even in children too young to read. Though it is not a cure, stepping in early with targeted intervention could prevent reading problems from derailing a child’s education.
Author: Taylor-Cox, Jennifer
Description: This article from Young Children discusses what is needed for success in learning formal algebra is found in interconnected concepts that are developmentally appropriate and very applicable to early childhood education. The major concepts in the national algebra standards; patterns, mathematical situations and structures, models of quantitative relationships, and change, need to be fundamental aspects of an early childhood mathematics program. Information is provided on how to integrate mathematics into every day routines.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and includes information on how they can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies using ABC blocks.
Aspergers Disorder (Desorden de Asperger)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece with information on Asperger's Disorder. This development disorder has commonly been confused with Autism. For children suffering from Asperger's Disorder, there are many treatment programs and special education is available. Also available in Spanish, Desorden de Asperger at http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/informacion_para_la_familia/desorden_de_asperger_no_69. This has not been updated (1999).
Description: This series of factsheets for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia provide information for early childhood professionals and policymakers about the status of infants, toddlers, and families in their state. The State Baby Facts present infant and toddler data in the framework of good health, strong families, and positive early learning experiences.
Description: ASCD Web site offers an "electronic topic pack" of informative articles and excerpts from ASCD resource materials, Educational Leadership magazine, ERIC, and other resources on brain development and brain-based teaching and learning.
Author: Shonkoff, Jack (7 more by this author)
Description: This animated video from Invest In US, is a project of the First Five Years Fund and is based on research by Jack Shonkoff (Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University). It discusses the importance of early childhood years in later development and success.
Description: This youtube video adapts the visual sensibility of interactive game models to a video format and portrays how actions taken by parents, teachers, policymakers, and others can influence life outcomes for both the child and the surrounding community.
2:59 minute visual presentation that would be a good for community partnership meetings.
Bridges to Literacy: Early Routines That Promote Later School Success
Description: This Zero to Three publication describes foundations of literacy and discusses strategies
that early childhood professionals can use to facilitate its development. A number of bridges to literacy can now be built with confidence!
Bright Futures Family Tip Sheets
Description: Developmentally appropriate tools to help families promote the health and well-being of their children. Downloadable brochures broken down into age categories. 1-21 yrs. Available in color or black and white.
Building Baby's Brain: Easy-Reading Series 
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: These fact sheets are part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. These publications are written in an easy reading format and focuses on things that parents can do to encourage their child's learning and development.
Building Baby's Brain: Prime Times for Learning
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication offers information on how children learn and tips for parents about what they can do to encourage their child's learning.
Building Baby's Brain: Ten Myths
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication lists ten false beliefs that are commonly held about children's brain development. Some of the myths discussed are whether the size of your baby's head has anything to do with intelligence and how what happens before birth affects learning.
Building Baby's Brain: The Basics
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication discusses the basics of infant brain development and offers tips for parents and caregivers to nurture positive brain development.
Building Baby's Brain: The Role of Music
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication describes how music can be beneficial for brain development.
Building Baby's Brain: What Child Care Can Do
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication describes how child care can influence brain development. It offers criteria for quality care and discusses the possible results of poor quality care.
Building Baby's Brain: What Parents Can Do
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is part of the "Building Baby's Brain" series. This publication focuses on things that parents can do to encourage their child's learning and development.
Author: Trister Dodge, Diane; Cate Heroman
Description: This easy to read booklet is packed with illustrations and charts that explain brain development and the simple things parents can do to make a big difference for their babies. Sections in the book include prenatal care, vision and hearing, touching your baby, teaching your baby about feelings, relating to others, talking with your child and sharing books, moving and doing, play, music and math, and art. This book is available online in English and Spanish (Como Estimular el Cerebro Infantil at http://www.teachingstrategies.com/content/pageDocs/spanbuilding.pdf ) or for purchase in English or Spanish from Teaching Strategies.
Changing Times, Changing Play: Why Does It Matter?
Author: Levin, Diane (2 more by this author)
Description: This article highlights the benefit of play and how play has changed over time. Early childhood professionals have long recognized the vital role of play in children’s social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development and learning. Recommendations are included on how to promote real opportunities for play in childhood.
Author: Becker-Weidman, Arthur
Description: This study give a brief overview of the effects of child abuse and neglect on brain development, attachment, and relationships.
Author: Rogers, Fred (20 more by this author)
Description: This article is excerpted from “The Mister Rogers Parenting Book” the last book Fred Rogers worked on before his death in 2003. In this book he wanted to support parents in their most important work of parenting and to help them better understand their young children.
The information focuses on pets. It includes information on learning to respect animals, what children can learn from pets, and helpful hints.
Author: Geist, Eugene
Description: In this presentation the author proposes that just as Chomsky has shown strong evidence for an innate "language acquisition device" that provides humans with a framework for learning language, there is a "mathematics acquisition device" that provides a framework for mathematical concepts. He offers evidence to support his claim.
(Lecture presented at the International Conference on Logical Mathematical Thinking)
Clinical Depression and Children/Adolescents
Description: A fact sheet describing clinical depression in children and adolescents including links and other resources about depression.
Cool Math: Get Ready for Kindergarten
Description: This website provides fun activities that relate to children and mathematics. It provides information and ideas for parents and teachers that can be done in the course of a typical day.
Curiosity: The Fuel of Development
Author: Perry, Bruce (14 more by this author)
Description: This article by Dr. Bruce Perry discusses how curiosity is a necessary part of learning and how teachers can support children in their discoveries.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
This practice involves using a routine daily activity to build a child’s skill at listening and interacting with adults — important skills for communication. This is done by playing simple word-and-movement games as part of diaper changing. It includes some ideas you can try to make diaper changing time a fun activity.
Description: This fact sheet from Head Start discusses considerations for providing math and science development for infants and toddlers. The considerations serve as a useful guide for programs and teachers. Resources for additional information are also provided.
Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative
Description: The Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative is home to a number of projects that focus on educating and raising young children. ECAP hosts research, technical assistance, and service projects and provides publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and parenting communities.
Early Childhood Development and Public Policy: Closing the gap between what we know and what we do
Author: Shonkoff, Jack (7 more by this author)
Description: Listen to a podcast by pediatrician Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He explains the impact of early experience on brain development and the implications of compelling new findings for public policy.
Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins Mathematics
Author: Fromboluti, Carol; Rinck, Natalie
Description: The activities in this booklet are designed to promote learning in all the thinking and content math standards. The thinking standards focus on the nature of mathematical reasoning, while the content standards are specific math topics. Each of the activities in this booklet touches one or more content areas and provide you with activities for young children that will help to get them ready for kindergarten. The activities build language skills, increase thinking and problem-solving abilities, develop social skills, promote large and small muscle development, and increase general knowledge.
Early Learning Guidelines for Infants and Toddlers: Recommendations for States
Description: ZERO TO THREE presents recommendations to assist states in creating or
revising Early learning Guidelines for infants and Toddlers (ElG/iTs). These guidelines consist of “widely accepted expectations for learning” for children from birth to three.
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This four page brochure discusses six simple ways to help prepare your child for preschool and kindergarten. Discussion on skills that are needed and ways that you can support your child in developing those skills are provided.
Also available in Spanish (Antes de comenzar el preescolar y el jardín de infantes -- Aprendiza je Temprano) at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM2081A(S).pdf.
Early Puzzle Play: A Predictor of Preschoolers' Spatial Transformation Skill
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Joanna Cannon; Janellen Huttenlocher; Kristin R. Ratliff
Description: This research summary discuses the relationship between early puzzle play and later math ability. It shows that the frequency and quality of early puzzle play varies across children and that engagement in puzzle play is associated with demographic variables as well as high levels of parent language input. It also shows that puzzle play predicts children’s later performance on a spatial transformation
task, even controlling for demographic factors and parent language input.
Every Day Counts® Everyday in Pre-K: Math Research Base
Description: This article is a reveiw of research regarding the acquisition of mathematical understanding by children. Written by Pre-K Now, it provides an overview of mathematics and how children learn about math.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
Baby games that combine simple, rhyming phrases and interesting movements help infants become familiar with the meanings of sounds and words.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading.
Five Numbers to Remember About Early Child Development
Description: This feature highlights five numbers to remember about the development of young children. Learn how the numbers illustrate such concepts as the importance of early childhood to the learning, behavior, and health of later life and why getting things right the first time is easier and more effective than trying to fix them later.
This feature is also available in a web-based slideshow format at http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/interactive_features/five-numbers/
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
Author: Shonkoff, Jack (7 more by this author); Phillips, Deborah
Description: An elctronic copy of a book by the National Academies Press on the human development of young children.
The body of research that the committee reviewed is extensive, multidisciplinary, and more complex than current discourse would lead one to believe. It covers the period from before birth until the first day of kindergarten. It includes efforts to understand how early experience affects all aspects of development—from the neural circuitry of the maturing brain, to the expanding network of a child's social relationships, to both the enduring and the changing cultural values of the society in which parents raise children. It includes efforts to understand the typical trajectories of early childhood, as well as the atypical developmental pathways that characterize the adaptations of children with disabilities.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
Made-up lap games can be just as much fun as “tried-and-tested” games. This practice guide includes an example of a game played by a child care teacher whose infant had just learned to reach for things. The description will give you some ideas about lap games you can play with the children with whom you work
Getting Ready to Read: Helping Your Child Become a Confident Reader and Writer Starting from Birth
Author: Parlakian, Rebecca ; Janice Im; Claire Lerner
Description: This Zero to Three publication focuses on what parents can do to support their children's literacy development. It contains information on what's going on with the baby and what adults can do to support their development at the different ages. It includes information for children from birth to age 5. A book list is also included.
Healthy Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Description: This Website provides a list of resources, publications, and links for families on a variety of safety and child development topics.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 0 to 2 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 0 and 2 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/0-2meses.pdf?docID=322&JServSessionIda004=ibnf46h9u1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 12 to 18 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 12 to 18 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/12-18meses.pdf?docID=332&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 18 to 24 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 18 to 24 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/18-24meses.pdfdocID=333&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 2 to 6 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 2 and 6 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/2-6meses.pdf?docID=329&JServSessionIda004=ibnf46h9u1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 24 to 36 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 24 to 36 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/24-36meses.pdf?docID=334&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 6 to 9 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 6 and 9 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/6-9meses.pdf?docID=330&JServSessionIda004=ibnf46h9u1.app213c.
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child’s Healthy Development from 9 to 12 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a chart that describes many of the things your baby is learning between 9 and 12 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of his development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/9-12meses.pdf?docID=331&JServSessionIda004=ibnf46h9u1.app213c.
Description: This fact sheet lists ways that parents can be involved with their child's school and classroom.
Helping Your Child Learn to Talk
Description: This Zero to Three article describes learning to talk, a process that starts at birth, when your baby experiences how voices can sound. By two years, most babies have a large vocabulary and can put words together to express their needs and ideas. Information is included on how this process unfolds and what you can do to encourage your baby’s ability to communicate.
Description: This Hot Topic contain useful information on teaching children to manage money. Links are provided to fact sheets, activity ideas, and managing money for the holidays.
How Early Experiences Get Into the Body: A Biodevelopmental Framework
Description: This interactive feature explains how early experiences are biologically embedded in the development of the brain and other organ systems and have lifelong impacts on learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health. To do that in simple terms, it offers an organizing structure, or "biodevelopmental framework," for thinking about these particular biological and developmental processes and their long-term effects.
To down load a flip chart of this graphic go to
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/download_file/-/view/745/.
Human Growth and Development - A Matter of Principles
Author: Ruffin, Novella (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on human growth and development. It provides a set of principles that characterizes the pattern and process of growth and development. These principles or characteristics describe typical development as a predictable and orderly process; predicting how most children will develop and that they will develop at the same rate and at about the same time as other children. Although there are individual differences in children's personalities, activity levels, and timing of developmental milestones, such as ages and stages, the principles and characteristics of development are universal patterns.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies. Both familiar and made-up lap games introduce infants to the wonderful world of playful interaction with others. These games develop a child’s emerging understanding of how to play with others and get someone to do something fun and interesting.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
This practice guide includes nursery rhymes that are likely to be especially engaging and entertaining to infants and young children. Repeating nursery rhymes is one way you can help infants learn about sounds, words, and simple stories.
Infant Nursery Rhymes and Fingerplays
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
This practice involves using a routine daily activity to build a child’s skill at listening and interacting with adults — important skills for communication. This is done by playing simple word-and-movement games as part of diaper changing. It includes some ideas you can try to make diaper changing time a fun activity.
Infant Nursery Rhymes and Fingerplays
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
Games that include rhymes and other repetitions help infants become familiar with sounds and words. This practice guide includes ways you can use fingerplays and nursery rhymes to help infants become “talkers.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading. This practice guide includes ideas for helping infants develop the building blocks for beginning writing.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their care. These practice guides illustrate ways that practitioners can promote infants abilities to listen and notice different sounds.
Newsletter topics include Infant Lap Games, More Infant Lap Games, Games Babies Play, Diaper-Changing Games, Infant Nursery Rhymes and Fingerplays, Nursery Rhymes for Play and Learning, Everyday Infant Fingerplays, and Infant Nursery Rhymes. This link includes all the newsletters together but they can also be downloaded individually at http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgpracts.php#infants.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 1 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Un Mes)
Description: This publication describes your baby at one month old, and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as caring properly for yourself at this busy time.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17957/your-1-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Un Mes" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/CJAT_MONTH1_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 10 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Diez Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be ten months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16994/your-10-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Diez Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9e/CJAT_Month_10-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 11 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Once Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eleven months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/16993/your-11-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Once Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/1/13/CJAT_Month_11-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 12 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Doce Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twelve months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/16992/your-12-month-old-child and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Doce Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/2f/CJAT_Month_12-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 2 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Dos Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like for your baby at two months and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17956/your-2-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Dos Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/CJAT_MONTH1_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 3 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Tres Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be three months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17000/your-3-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Tres Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/CJAT_Month_3-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 4 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cuatro Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16999/your-4-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cuatro Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/ec/CJAT_Month_4-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 5 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cinco Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be five months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16998/your-5-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cinco Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/1/14/CJAT_Month_5-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 6 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Seis Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16997/your-6-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Seis Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/CJAT_Month_6-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 7 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Siete Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16798/your-7-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Siete Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e7/CJAT_Month_7-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 8 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Ocho Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eight months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16996/your-8-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Ocho Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6c/CJAT_Month_8-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 9 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Nueve Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nine months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16995/your-9-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Nueve Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6c/CJAT_Month_8-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 13-14 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 13 y 14 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirteen and fourteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23188/your-toddler:-13-14-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 13 y 14 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/08/13-14moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 15-16 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 15 y 16 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifteen and sixteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23169/your-toddler:-15-16-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 15 y 16 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/3/38/15-16mSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 17-18 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 17 y 18 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be seventeen and eighteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23151/your-toddler:-17-18-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 17 y 18 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/0c/1718-SpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 19-20 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 19-20 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nineteen and twenty months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/5/5c/19-20_month.pdf and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 19-20 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/c/c0/19-20_moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 21-22 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 21-22 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-one and twenty-two months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/5/5c/19-20_month.pdf and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 21-22 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/21-22moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 23-24 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 23-24 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-three and twenty-four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23095/your-toddler:-23-24-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 23-24 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/7/7b/23-24moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 25-26 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 25-26 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-five and twenty-six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23078/your-toddler:-25-26-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 25-26 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e5/25-26moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 27-28 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 27-28 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-seven and twenty-eight months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23061/your-toddler:-27-28-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 27-28 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/2b/27-28moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 29-30 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 29-30 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-nine and thirty months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23041/your-toddler:-29-30-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 29-30 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/eb/JITP29-30moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 31-32 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 31-32 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-one and thirty-two months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23022/your-toddler:-31-32-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 31-32 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/20/31-32mo_sp.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 33-34 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 33-34 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-three and thirty-four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23003/your-toddler:-33-34-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 33-34 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d6/33-34mo_sp.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 35-36 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 35-36 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-five and thirty-six months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22984/your-toddler:-35-36-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 35-36 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b7/JITP_35-36months_SP-72910L.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 37-38 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 37-38 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-seven and thirty-eight months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22964/your-child:-37-38-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 37-38 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/JITP_37-38months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 39-40 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 39-40 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-nine and forty months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22951/your-child:-39-40-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 39-40 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/a/af/JITP_39-40months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 41-42 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 41-42 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-one and forty-two months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22939/your-child:-41-42-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 41-42 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9c/JITP_41-42months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 43-44 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 43-44 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-three and forty-four months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22927/your-child:-43-44-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 43-44 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/3/37/JITP_43-44months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 45-46 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 45-46 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-five and forty-six months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22916/your-child:-45-46-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 44-46 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9b/JITP_45-46months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 47-48 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 47-48 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-seven and forty-eight months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22904/your-child:-47-48-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 47-48 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/c/c2/JITP_47-48months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 49-50 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 49-50 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-nine and fifty months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22890/your-child:-49-50-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 49-50 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/mediawiki/files/5/59/JITP_49-50months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 51-52 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 51-52 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-one and fifty-two months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22878/your-child:-51-52-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 51-52 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/7/7d/JITP_51-52monthsSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 53-54 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 53-54 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-three and fifty-four months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22868/your-child:-53-54-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 53-54 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/4/42/JITP_53-54months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 55-56 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 55-56 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-five and fifty-six months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22856/your-child:-55-56-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 55-56 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b9/JITP_55-56months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 57-58 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 57-58 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-seven and fifty-eight months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22845/your-child:-57-58-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 57-58 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/02/JITP_57-58months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 59-60 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 59-60 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-nine and sixty months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22834/your-child:-59-60-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 59-60 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/91/JITP_59-60_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Newborn (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be a newborn and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/4/41/CJAT_NEWBORN_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 1st Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22604/your-prenatal-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 1er Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6d/Spanish1er_trimestre.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 2nd Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 2do Trimestre)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22590/your-prenatal-baby:-second-trimester and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 2do Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e8/CJAT_2do_tri_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 3rd Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 3er Trimestre)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22634/your-prenatal-baby:-third-trimester and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 3er Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b2/3rd_Trimester_-_SPANISH.pdf.
Learn the Signs - Act Early: Developmental Milestones
Description: This portion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website focuses on the typical progression of development of young children. It includes developmental milestones checklists, and interactive milestones chart, and a video on milestones. There is also links for other related resources.
Learn the Signs - Act Early: If You’re Concerned
Description: This portion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website focuses what to do if you are concerned about your child's development. It includes developmental milestones checklists, information on how to share your concerns with your doctor, and where to go for referrals. It provides tips on what to say to professionals, how to keep track of who is saying what, and what to do while you wait for an evaluation. There is also links for other related resources.
Description: This briefing paper defines learning disabilities and discusses how often it occurs in the general population, what are signs of learning disability, how to work with your schools, and tips for parents.
Also available in HTML at http://nichcy.org/disability/specific/ld and Spanish at http://nichcy.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/spanish/fs7sp.pdf (2010).
Description: This information sheet discusses learning disabilities in children. It includes information on warning signs and how to get help if you suspect your child has a learning disability. Early detection and treatment are important.
Author: Rogers, Fred (20 more by this author)
Description: This article is excerpted from “The Mister Rogers Parenting Book” the last book Fred Rogers worked on before his death in 2003. In this book he wanted to support parents in their most important work of parenting and to help them better understand their young children.
The information focuses on learning readiness. It includes information on tools for learning, parents' expectations, and helpful hints.
Let Little Fingers Do the Drawing
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading. This practice guide includes ideas for helping infants develop the building blocks for beginning writing.
Literacy-Rich Experiences for Infants
Description: These Literacy-Rich Experiences newsletters are especially for practitioners working with infants and toddlers. These practice guides illustrate ways that practitioners can arrange environments and provide activities in order to encourage infants to listen, communicate, and begin to develop the skills that are the building blocks for early literacy.
Titles include: Literacy-Rich Classroom and Community Activities, Literacy-Rich Word Activities, Literacy-Rich Outings, and Literacy-Rich Home Activities.
All 4 can be downloaded together at this URL or separately at http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgpracts.php.
Description: The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) has published a new Family Tool to help family members and caregivers understand that for babies and toddlers, play is their “work.” It is through play and repetition that babies and toddlers try out and master new skills. Through play, they learn what can happen as a result of an action, explore their imagination and creativity, learn to communicate, and learn about relationships with other people. All children learn through play, and any play activity can be adapted to meet a child’s unique needs. Play suggestions are included.
Making the Most of Math: Math in the Early Childhood Program
Author: Weigel, Dan (15 more by this author); Martin, Sally
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of math skills that are learned in the early childhood years and how adults can support their development of math concepts.
Math Access for Teachers and Home Child Care Providers
Description: This website focuses on math resources for teachers and caregivers of young children. It provides math knowledge as it relates to young children as well as how to set up your environment, math activities, and resources.
Mathematics and Science in Preschool: Policy and Practice
Author: Brenneman, Kimberly (3 more by this author); Ellen C. Frede; Judi Stevenson-Boyd
Description: This report addresses the development of mathematics and science understanding in preschool children, reviews the current knowledge base on educational practices in these domains, identifies areas that require further study, and outlines recommendations for early education policy in mathematics and science.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies. Both familiar and made-up lap games introduce infants to the wonderful world of playful interaction with others. These games develop a child’s emerging understanding of how to play with others and get someone to do something fun and interesting.
Mother Goose Programs: Math & Science Resources
Description: This website provides articles, resources, and activities that relate to children and mathematics. It provides information and ideas for parents and teachers.
Nursery Rhymes for Play and Learning
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books, reading and language. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies.
Nursery rhymes that include repetitious sounds accompanied by adult hand movements often have tremendous child entertainment value! Rhymes can be used to provide infants opportunities to listen to and hear sounds that are similar and different
Persistent Fear and Anxiety Can Affect Young Children’s Learning and Development
Description: Science shows that early exposure to circumstances that produce persistent fear and chronic anxiety can have lifelong consequences by disrupting the developing architecture of the brain. Unfortunately, many young children are exposed to such circumstances. While some of these experiences are one-time events and others may reoccur or persist over time, all of them have the potential to affect how children learn, solve problems, and relate to others. This report from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child summarizes in clear language why, while some of these experiences are one-time events and others may reoccur or persist over time, all of them have the potential to affect how children learn, solve problems, and relate to others.
Pre-Kindergarten Math Concepts
Author: Bixler, Mikki (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides information on pre-kindergarten math concepts. It explains why you would teach math to young children and gives examples of how parents can help their children learn math skills.
Puzzle Play Helps Boost Learning Math - Related Skills
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Joanna Cannon; Janellen Huttenlocher; Kristin R. Ratliff
Description: This article highlights puzzle play that was found to be a significant predictor of spatial skill after controlling for differences in parents’ income, education and the overall amount of parent language input.
Recognition and Response: Pathways to School Success for Young Children
Description: RecognitionandResponse.org is a comprehensive online resource that provides educators with information about this cutting edge approach to early education. This site offers information and resources to help early educators address the needs of young children (3 to 5 year-olds) who show signs that they may not be learning in an expected manner, even before they begin kindergarten.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading.
School Library Journal's Best Books 2011
Description: The School Library Journal has chosen 65 books for the Best Books of 2011, chosen from the more than 6000 books reviewed this year. Titles include picture books, nonfiction, teen and young adult, fantasy and fiction.
School Readiness Begins with Babies Brain Development - Current Research
Description: By age two, structures in the brain that influence how children will learn have already been created. Brain structure is shaped, either positively or negatively, by a baby's day-to-day interactions with those who principally provide the child's care. Current brain research has highlighted the importance of infant and toddler development on "readiness" and ability to succeed in school. These resources provide information for parents and caregivers on infant and toddler development.
Scribbling and Drawing: Infant Finger Drawing
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest in pre-writing skills. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
This handout is filled with ideas for helping your baby learn pre-writing skills.
Scribbling and Drawing: Scribble Scribble
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest in pre-writing skills. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
About the same time infants use a spoon to eat, they often show an interest in trying to use crayons. Babies often become fascinated with writing instruments and how to mark and scribble with them.
Severe and/or Multiple Disabilities
Description: This fact sheet provides information for those wanting to learn more about severe and/or multiple disabilities. Included are a definition, incidence of occurance, characteristics, medical implications, educational implications, resources, and organizations.
Stories and Listening: Baby’s First ABC Book
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
The topic is store-bought or homemade ABC books to involve their babies in learning to enjoy stories.
Stories and Listening: Baby’s First Picture Books
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
Stories and Listening: Baby’s First Word Books
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
The topic is baby's first word books, connecting pictures with words.
Stories and Listening: Tell Me More, Tell Me More
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
The topic is baby's first stories and how they love to hear the same stories again and again.
Stories and Listening: The Right Touch
Description: These newsletters are especially for parents of infants and includes information on how parents can support babies's in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that parents can do with their babies and suggestions to evaluate if the practices have worked to improve babies's skills.
The topic is touch-and-feel books to involve an infant in looking at, touching, and exploring books.
Talking to Children About Money
Description: This web article provides information on how to talk to children about money. Specific topics and information are provided for children of various ages.
Talking To Kids About Mental Illnesses
Description: This publication explains to parents how to talk to their children about mental illness. This is also available in pdf.
The Anxious Child (El Nino Ansioso)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this piece with information for parents about what to do if they feel they have an overly anxious child. If a child consistantly begs to stay home from school, has extreme fears of being away from a parent etc., there may be a cause for concern about the child having extreme levels of anxiety. There is help for children who suffer from extreme anxiety, and in the long run it will help their social and emotional development if they recieve help at an early age. Also available in Spanish, El Nino Ansioso at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=El+Nino+Ansioso+-+No.+47
The Case For Action: The Science of Early Childhood Development
Author: Shonkoff, Jack (7 more by this author)
Description: This pdf of a powerpoint presentation made to the National Governors Association details the science of early childhood development explaining brain development, stresses impact on brain development, mental health risk due to stress, intervention supports and brain development.
The Child With Autism (El Nino Autista)
Description: The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has provided this informative piece on Child Autism. This short piece describes possible symptoms and ways to identify if your child may be autistic. In addition, it provides suggestions for parents if their child is diagnosed as having Autism. Also available in Spanish, El Nino Autista at http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Informacion+para+la+Familia&name=El+Nino+Autista+No.+11
The Environment of Childhood Poverty
Author: Evans, Gary
Description: Gary Evans examines the role of physical and social factors in the lives of children growing up in poverty, arguing that the confluence of risks add up to a toxic mix for child development.
Description: These newsletters are especially for practitioners of infants and toddlers and includes information on how they can support babies' in their interest of books and reading. It includes activities that caregivers can do with the babies regarding print awareness and reading.
Understanding Growth and Development Patterns of Infants
Author: Ruffin, Novella (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on patterns of infant growth and development. An understanding of the rapid changes in a child's developmental status prepares parents and caregivers to give active and purposeful attention to the preschool years and to guide and promote early learning that will serve as the foundation for later learning. Understanding child development is an important part of teaching young children.
Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development
Description: This bulletin provides basic information on brain development and the effects of abuse and neglect on that development. The information is designed to help professionals understand the emotional, mental, and behavioral impact of early abuse and neglect in children who come to the attention of the child welfare system.
You and Your Child Parenting Guides
Description: This Web site contains links to 50 guides for parents on a variety of topics. You may also request a free set of 50 guides in hard-copy form (for non-profit use only).
The fact sheets are available in Spanish also at http://www.ocd.pitt.edu/Default.aspx?webPageID=89&parentPageId=5.
Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think
Author: Gopnik, Alison
Description: This op ed piece by Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at Berkeley, new studies that demonstrate that babies and very young children know, observe, explore, imagine and learn more than we would ever have thought possible. In some ways, they are smarter than adults.
Your Baby's Development: 12 to 15 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 12 to 15 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span12-15.pdf?docID=6090&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 15 to 18 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 15 to 18 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span15-18.pdf?docID=6091&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 18 to 24 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 18 to 24 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span18-24.pdf?docID=6092&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 24 to 30 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 24 to 30 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span24-30.pdf?docID=6101&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 3 to 6 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 3 to 6 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span3-6.pdf?docID=6087&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 30 to 36 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 30 to 36 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span30-36.pdf?docID=6102&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 6 to 9 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 6 to 9 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span6-9.pdf?docID=6088&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: 9 to 12 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from 9 to 12 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span9-12.pdf?docID=6089&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Baby's Development: Birth to 3 Months
Description: The newsletter for parents includes a information on what your baby can do from birth to 3 months and what you can do to support your child in all areas of their development.
Also available in Spanish at http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Span0-3.pdf?docID=6086&JServSessionIda004=ly85fgjke1.app213c.
Your Child's Brain: The Crucial Early Years
Author: Oliver, Kathy (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet describes how parents can best support their child's early brain development. It also offers references for further reading.
– Other Resources –
Description: Keynote speaker Jeanette Betancourt at the 2011 USDA / DoD Family Resiliency Conference discusses how children must first be healthy and resilient in order to learn. This keynote presentation describes Sesame Workshop’s outreach efforts around the physical and emotional well-being of young children and their families. Harnessing the power of Sesame Street, outreach initiatives motivate children and their families to take simple steps to make healthy habits a part of their everyday routines and to build strength through life challenges. Participants will learn useful messages promoting good nutrition and physical activity. They will also explore social-emotional strategies through current topics such as military deployment, grief, and coping with a parent’s injury.
– Professional Development –
Description: ASCD Web site offers an "electronic topic pack" of informative articles and excerpts from ASCD resource materials, Educational Leadership magazine, ERIC, and other resources on brain development and brain-based teaching and learning.
Author: Copley, Juanita
Description: This Webcast series is intended for personnel who support Head Start teaching teams: supervisors, directors, curriculum specialists, mentor-coaches, and T/TA staff. It is also appropriate for all teachers of young children including child care home providers, child care center staff, and preschool teachers. The age frame covered in these webcasts is birth to five so it is also appropriate for infant and toddler teachers.
This series includes 6 webcast sessions and recommended readings available to download.
Webcast One - Where's the Math?
Webcast Two - Number and Operations Math
Webcast Three - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Webcast Four - Measurement Math
Webcast Five - Patterns Math
Webcast Six - Putting It All Together Math
Author: Bryant, Donna (1 more by this author); Bernier, Kathleen; Poe, Michele; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Maxwell, Kelly; Taylor, Karen
Description: A new FPG study concludes that North Carolina preschoolers participating in high quality child care programs are ahead of their peers who attend low quality programs. The study shows that child care quality has increased in the study sample during the Smart Start years, Smart Start-funded activities were positively related to classroom quality, and quality was positively related to children's outcomes.
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An Evidence-Based Approach to Estimating the National and State Costs of PreK-3rd
Author: Picus, Lawerence; Odden, Allan; Goetz, Michael
Description: This policy brief from the Foundation for Child Development, the third in a new series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore offers a framework for estimating the costs of doing PreK-3rd.Education finance policy researchers, Lawrence O. Picus, Allan Odden, and Michael Goetz, apply their evidence-based approach to estimate the national and state-by-state costs of PreK-3rd approaches.
Author: Rice, Cynthia
Description: This policy brief provides an overview of the impact of New Jersey's preK programs. During the last ten years, New Jersey's commitment to pre-school has grown dramatically both in scope and quality. In the 2006-2007 school year in over 150 school districts, the NJ Department of Education (DOE) has projected that in the three state supported preschool programs, nearly 33,609 four year olds and 20,254 three year olds are being exposed to experiences that support child development and are being prepared for kindergarten and beyond.
Information includes the test scores of the first cohort and also some lessons learned.
Child Development: Creativity in Young Children
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the development of creativity in young children and what adults can do to foster creativity. Includes recipes for creative media and a description of the stages of drawing.
Children and Brain Development - What We Know About How Children Learn
Author: Graham, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet explains some key principles of brain development and offers suggestions to support brain development in young children. It includes a chart about brain development related to vision, feelings, language and movement.
Author: Gable, Sara (5 more by this author)
Description: The objective of this publication is to broaden understanding about the
creative process for parents and others who work with children and youth. Recipes are included.
Doing the Critical Things First: An Aligned Approach to Prek and Early Elementary Math
Author: Griffin, Sharon
Description: In this interview with the Harvard Education Letter, Griffin discusses what cognitive science can teach us about aligning preK and early elementary curriculum and teaching methods with the natural development of children's mathematical thinking.
EZ AT: Assistive Technology Activities for Children Ages 3-8 with Disabilities
Description: This is a guide for increasing young children’s participation in daily activities and routines using assistive technology. It offers direction for making a wide range of devices and products that promote best practices for home and classroom learning.
EZ AT 2: Simple Assistive Technology Ideas for Children Ages is available at http://www.pacer.org/stc/pubs/EZ-AT-book-2011-final.pdf.
Fighting Fade-Out Through PreK-3rd Reform
Description: The New America Foundation's Early Education Initiative released a seven-minute video, "Fighting Fade-Out Through PreK-3rd Reform." It makes the case for PreK-3rd reforms beginning with high-quality early childhood education programs and building on the benefits of those programs through the elementary school years and beyond.
The video features Jerry Weast, Superintendent of Montgomery County School District (Maryland), whohas successfully used PreK-3rd reform as a way to close achievement gaps and raise the academic performance of all students in the district.
Christina Satkowski of the Early Education Initiative interviewed Dr. Weast for an in-depth discussion in a second 30 minute video found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrFCCZMnGc.
Author: Oesterreich, Lesia (35 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the effects of television viewing on preschool-age children. The author gives parents suggestions for using TV wisely with young children.
Growing Together: Preschooler Development
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses the development of preschool children broken down into sections: the body, the mind, social and emotional, moral development, and the importance of play.
Author: Perry, Bruce (14 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses how neural systems in the brain become fatigued quickly and teachers need to find ways of keeping the neural systems stimulated.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 1 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Un Mes)
Description: This publication describes your baby at one month old, and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as caring properly for yourself at this busy time.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17957/your-1-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Un Mes" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/CJAT_MONTH1_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 10 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Diez Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be ten months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16994/your-10-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Diez Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9e/CJAT_Month_10-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 11 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Once Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eleven months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/16993/your-11-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Once Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/1/13/CJAT_Month_11-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 12 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Doce Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twelve months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/16992/your-12-month-old-child and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Doce Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/2f/CJAT_Month_12-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 2 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Dos Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like for your baby at two months and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17956/your-2-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Dos Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/CJAT_MONTH1_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 3 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Tres Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be three months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/17000/your-3-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Tres Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/CJAT_Month_3-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 4 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cuatro Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16999/your-4-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cuatro Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/ec/CJAT_Month_4-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 5 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cinco Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be five months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16998/your-5-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Cinco Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/1/14/CJAT_Month_5-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 6 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Seis Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16997/your-6-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Seis Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/CJAT_Month_6-0p.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 7 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Siete Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16798/your-7-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Siete Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e7/CJAT_Month_7-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 8 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Ocho Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be eight months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16996/your-8-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Ocho Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6c/CJAT_Month_8-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Month 9 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo Nueve Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nine months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/16995/your-9-month-old-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo Nueve Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6c/CJAT_Month_8-0.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 13-14 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 13 y 14 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirteen and fourteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23188/your-toddler:-13-14-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 13 y 14 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/08/13-14moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 15-16 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 15 y 16 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifteen and sixteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23169/your-toddler:-15-16-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 15 y 16 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/3/38/15-16mSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 17-18 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 17 y 18 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be seventeen and eighteen months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23151/your-toddler:-17-18-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 17 y 18 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/0c/1718-SpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 19-20 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 19-20 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be nineteen and twenty months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/5/5c/19-20_month.pdf and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 19-20 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/c/c0/19-20_moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 21-22 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 21-22 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-one and twenty-two months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/5/5c/19-20_month.pdf and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 21-22 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9d/21-22moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 23-24 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 23-24 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-three and twenty-four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23095/your-toddler:-23-24-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 23-24 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/7/7b/23-24moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 25-26 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 25-26 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-five and twenty-six months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23078/your-toddler:-25-26-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 25-26 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e5/25-26moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 27-28 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 27-28 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-seven and twenty-eight months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23061/your-toddler:-27-28-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 27-28 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/2b/27-28moSpJITP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 29-30 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 29-30 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be twenty-nine and thirty months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23041/your-toddler:-29-30-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 29-30 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/eb/JITP29-30moSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 31-32 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 31-32 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-one and thirty-two months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23022/your-toddler:-31-32-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 31-32 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/2/20/31-32mo_sp.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 33-34 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 33-34 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-three and thirty-four months old and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/23003/your-toddler:-33-34-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 33-34 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d6/33-34mo_sp.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 35-36 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 35-36 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-five and thirty-six months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22984/your-toddler:-35-36-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 35-36 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b7/JITP_35-36months_SP-72910L.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 37-38 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 37-38 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-seven and thirty-eight months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22964/your-child:-37-38-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 37-38 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/d/d2/JITP_37-38months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 39-40 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 39-40 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be thirty-nine and forty months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22951/your-child:-39-40-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 39-40 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/a/af/JITP_39-40months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 41-42 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 41-42 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-one and forty-two months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22939/your-child:-41-42-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 41-42 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9c/JITP_41-42months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 43-44 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 43-44 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-three and forty-four months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22927/your-child:-43-44-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 43-44 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/3/37/JITP_43-44months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 45-46 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 45-46 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-five and forty-six months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22916/your-child:-45-46-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 44-46 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/9b/JITP_45-46months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 47-48 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 47-48 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-seven and forty-eight months old (three years old) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22904/your-child:-47-48-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 47-48 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/c/c2/JITP_47-48months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 49-50 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 49-50 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be forty-nine and fifty months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22890/your-child:-49-50-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 49-50 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/mediawiki/files/5/59/JITP_49-50months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 51-52 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 51-52 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-one and fifty-two months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22878/your-child:-51-52-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 51-52 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/7/7d/JITP_51-52monthsSP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 53-54 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 53-54 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-three and fifty-four months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22868/your-child:-53-54-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 53-54 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/4/42/JITP_53-54months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 55-56 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 55-56 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-five and fifty-six months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22856/your-child:-55-56-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 55-56 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b9/JITP_55-56months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 57-58 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 57-58 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-seven and fifty-eight months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22845/your-child:-57-58-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 57-58 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/0/02/JITP_57-58months_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Months 59-60 (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 59-60 Meses)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be fifty-nine and sixty months old (four year olds) and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in http://www.extension.org/pages/22834/your-child:-59-60-months and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - 59-60 Meses" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/9/91/JITP_59-60_SP.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Newborn (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be a newborn and how you as a parent can best respond to their needs, as well as your own.
Also available in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/4/41/CJAT_NEWBORN_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 1st Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Recién Nacidos)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22604/your-prenatal-baby and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 1er Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/6/6d/Spanish1er_trimestre.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 2nd Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 2do Trimestre)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22590/your-prenatal-baby:-second-trimester and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 2do Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/e/e8/CJAT_2do_tri_51811_LR.pdf.
Just in Time Parenting - Prenatal 3rd Trimester (Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 3er Trimestre)
Description: This publication describes what its like to be pregnant with a new baby. It includes tips and information.
Also available in html at http://www.extension.org/pages/22634/your-prenatal-baby:-third-trimester and in Spanish, "Crianza Justo a Tiempo - Prenatal 3er Trimestre" at http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/b/b2/3rd_Trimester_-_SPANISH.pdf.
Launching into Literacy and Math: What is Early Math?
Author: Ballweg, Judy
Description: This website provides information on early math learning with more specific information on infants and toddlers, preschoolers, child assessments, and professional resources for teachers. Handouts are available including book lists, fingerplays and chants, Spanish resources, developmental milestones, and more.
PreK-3rd: Teacher Quality Matters
Author: Shore, Rima (3 more by this author)
Description: In PreK-3rd: Teacher Quality Matters, the third in the FCD series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore describes 1) Why effective teaching matters for student outcomes; 2) How schools can organize to sustain effective teaching in every classroom; and 3) What high-quality instruction looks like in PreK-3rd classrooms.
Download a copy of the policy brief (PDF) at http://www.fcd-us.org/usr_doc/PreK-3rd_Teacher_Quality_Matters.pdf.
PreK-3rd: What is the Price Tag?
Author: Shore, Rima (3 more by this author)
Description: In PreK-3rd: What is the Price Tag?, the second in a new series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore offers a framework for estimating the costs of doing PreK-3rd. She describes the core elements, and the steps to cost out each element based on district needs.
Recognition and Response: Pathways to School Success for Young Children
Description: RecognitionandResponse.org is a comprehensive online resource that provides educators with information about this cutting edge approach to early education. This site offers information and resources to help early educators address the needs of young children (3 to 5 year-olds) who show signs that they may not be learning in an expected manner, even before they begin kindergarten.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet defines self-esteem and discusses how a child's self-esteem develops. The author gives some strategies for nurturing a positive sense of self and includes other resources.
Author: Bryant, Donna (1 more by this author); Bernier, Kathleen; Poe, Michele; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Maxwell, Kelly; Taylor, Karen
Description: A new FPG study concludes that North Carolina preschoolers participating in high quality child care programs are ahead of their peers who attend low quality programs. The study shows that child care quality has increased in the study sample during the Smart Start years, Smart Start-funded activities were positively related to classroom quality, and quality was positively related to children's outcomes.
Standardized testing for young children? Not Yet!
Description: This position paper outlines reasons why standardized tests may not be a good means of assessment of young children. This article is dated but the points are relevant and concise.
Starting Smart: How Early Experiences Affect Brain Development
Author: Hawley, Theresa; Gunner, Megan
Description: This brochure examines how a child’s early experiences from birth to 3 can influence and shape brain development.
Talking To Kids About Mental Illnesses
Description: This publication explains to parents how to talk to their children about mental illness. This is also available in pdf.
The Case for Investing in PreK-3rd Education: Challenging Myths about School Reform
Author: Shore, Rima (3 more by this author)
Description: This policy brief from the Foundation for Child Development (FCD), overturns three widely held assumptions about school reform. Foremost among these is the belief, despite powerful evidence to the contrary, elementary schools are doing just fine, and learning problems begin later.
The evidence is clear: Children are more likely to grow into independent, able learners, and to succeed in school and beyond, if they have a strong, solid PreK-3rd base that integrates planning, curricula, professional development, and assessment across these six years.
What Counts in the Development of Young Children's Number Knowledge?
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Linda Whealton Surlyakham; Meredith Rowe; Janellen Huttenlocher; Elizabeth Gunderson
Description: In this observational study, Levine and colleagues demonstrate how the number talk of 44 parents from low and high socio-economic backgrounds is significantly related to their children’s later cardinal number knowledge (e.g., understanding that when counting one, two, three, four ducks, the word four refers to the set of ducks). Cardinal number knowledge is a critical aspect of young children’s mathematical development because of its relation to counting and the ability to solve number problems. The authors show that parents’ use of number words when toddlers were between the ages of 14 and 30 months was related to children’s cardinal knowledge at 46 months. The relationship between parents’ number word use and children’s cardinal knowledge was significant above and beyond socio-economic status. This suggests that parents use of number words while children are toddlers is a key factor in supporting children’s mathematical understanding at 4 years of age, and mathematical understanding during early childhood is related to elementary academic outcomes.
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A Fair Start: Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood Education
Description: This publication from the University of Washington highlights their faculty in their new Early Childhood and Family Studies program and provides information on timely early childhood topics. Resources are included with the articles. The topics include; Emotional Literacy: Rethinking Problem Behavior in Preschool, Engaging Young Children in Scientific Inquiry, Modeling Practical Programs for Students with Autism, Integrating Children with Special Needs into Preschool Classrooms, Breaking the Code: Reading Fluency Instruction for Struggling Readers, and The Predicament of Multilingual Immigrant Parents with a Special Needs Child.
A Synthesis of Research on Reading
Author: Grossen, Bonita
Description: The report summarizes the findings of the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD) reading research. NICHD conducted a long-term study in an effort to improve research done in the area of reading.
Author: West, Jerry (2 more by this author); Elvira Germino-Hausken; Kristin Denton
Description: This report provides national data on children's skills, knowledge and experiences as they enter kindergarten for the first time. The data are the first findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99. This report, using data collected in the fall of 1998 from approximately 22,000 kindergarten children attending about 1,000 public and private schools, provides estimates concerning children's cognitive skills and knowledge, their social skills, their physical well-being, their approaches to learning and their family environments and experiences. Children's developmental status across these domains was directly assessed. Parents and teachers also reported information on children's development, as well as their early care and home experiences. This descriptive report presents the information by characteristics of children and families.
Description: Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways. In the brain, this air traffic control mechanism is called executive functioning, a group of skills that helps us to focus on multiple streams of information at the same time, and revise plans as necessary. Acquiring the early building blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years, and the opportunity to build further on these rudimentary capacities is critical to healthy development through middle childhood and adolescence.
This joint Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs explains how these lifelong skills develop, what can disrupt their development, and how supporting them pays off in school and life.
Can Music Instruction Affect Children's Cognitive Development?
Author: Rauscher, Frances
Description: This article discusses the evidence exploring music instruction's effects on children's spatial-temporal, mathematical, and reading abilities. The research suggests that music may act as a catalyst for cognitive abilities in other disciplines, and the relationship between music and spatial-temporal reasoning is particularly compelling. However, more research is needed to more conclusively determine the relationship between music instruction and cognitive development.
CELLnotes: Children’s active participation in reading and storytelling
Author: Trivette, Carol (1 more by this author); Carl J. Dunst
Description: Children’s active participation in reading and storytelling can enhance early literacy learning
This Cellnotes summarizes findings reported in Robyak, A., Masiello,
T., Trivette, C. M., Roper, N., & Dunst, C. J. ( 2007). Mapping
the contemporary landscape of early literacy learning, Cellreviews
1(1), 1-11.
The findings are condensed in this newsletter for early childhood professionals. It discusses what it means to practice children's active participation in reading and story telling, what research tells us, and how to act on the evidence.
CELLnotes: Early Literacy Learning
Author: Masiello, Tracy
Description: Early literacy learning can be promoted through experiences with print and language. The findings from research are condensed in this newsletter for early childhood professionals. It discusses early literacy and recent research.
This Cellnotes summarizes findings reported in Robyak, A., Masiello,T., Trivette, C. M., Roper, N., & Dunst, C. J. ( 2007). Mapping the contemporary landscape of early literacy learning, Cellreviews 1(1), 1-11.
Connecting Neurons, Concepts, and People: Brain Development and its Implications
Author: Thompson, Ross (1 more by this author)
Description: This policy brief discusses brain research, current research, and policy implications.
Author: Lowe Vandell, Deborah (1 more by this author); Jay Belsky; Laurence Steinberg; Nathan Vandergrift; Margaret Burchinal
Description: This report from the NICHD child care study found that, although the effects were small, teenagers who had the higher quality care did better academically than those given low-quality care or no care outside the home. The study also found that the more time children spent in child care outside the home, the more they were likely to engage in risky or impulsive behaviors at age 15 regardless of the quality of early care they had received. Those effects were also relatively small, and benefits did not differ between advantaged and disadvantaged children. The study's finding of persistent effects is consistent with the results of NIEER's meta-analysis of the entire literature, but also reinforces the notion that intensive educational programs are required if preschool is to make a substantive difference in the poor achievement of disadvantaged children.
The study appears in Child Development.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
Author: Shonkoff, Jack (7 more by this author); Phillips, Deborah
Description: An elctronic copy of a book by the National Academies Press on the human development of young children.
The body of research that the committee reviewed is extensive, multidisciplinary, and more complex than current discourse would lead one to believe. It covers the period from before birth until the first day of kindergarten. It includes efforts to understand how early experience affects all aspects of development—from the neural circuitry of the maturing brain, to the expanding network of a child's social relationships, to both the enduring and the changing cultural values of the society in which parents raise children. It includes efforts to understand the typical trajectories of early childhood, as well as the atypical developmental pathways that characterize the adaptations of children with disabilities.
National Center for Early Development and Learning
Description: The National Center for Early Development and Learning focuses on enhancing cognitive, social, and emotional development of children birth through age eight.
Author: Edwards, Valerie; Vincent J. Felitti; George W. Holden; Robert F. Anda
Description: This study examines the prevalence of a history of various combinations of childhood maltreatment types (physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing of maternal battering) among adult members of a health maintenance organization (HMO) and explored the relationship with adult mental health of the combinations of types of childhood maltreatment and emotional abuse in the childhood family environment. Results From the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.
Research Spotlight: Make Time For Free Play
Author: Nordby, Ann (21 more by this author)
Description: Having time for unstructured play is important for child development. Free play helps to develop executive function, which regulates self-control in later life. It also fosters creative thinking, which some think will become even more important for tomorrow's jobs.
Society for Research in Child Development
Description: The Society for Research in Child Development Web site contains information about research in the area of child development. Read their newsletter, view their press releases or learn more about their policy center by exploring this site.
Study of Children in Rural Poverty: Risk and Protective Mechanisms
Description: The research goal of the study of Children in Rural Poverty: Risk and Protective Mechanisms is to understand the ways in which community, employment, family poverty, family health, parent-child relationships, and individual differences in the children themselves interact over time to shape the development of multiple domains in children during the first three years of life.