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Eat and Learn! Working Literacy, Math, Science, and Art Into Early Childhood Mealtimes

January 9, 2025
Early childhood mealtimes are about more than just eating. They’re ideal settings for connecting with others and learning important new academic or pre-academic skills. Adapted from the new guidebook Meaningful Mealtimes,…

13 Tips for Sharing Social-Emotional Screening Results with Families

January 7, 2025
Is your early childhood program using ASQ®:SE-2 for social-emotional screening yet? A recent final rule from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) emphasized the importance of screening for social…

A holiday gift for you

December 17, 2024
Our Brookes family wishes you a peaceful holiday season. To help you find joy throughout the new year, we’ve created a special gift for you: a free printable calendar full…

EXCERPT: Try This “Worry Bug” Activity to Help Students with Anxiety

December 13, 2024
Anxiety can be a major obstacle to school success for students. Here’s a creative activity you might want to try with your students in the new year to help them…

10 Joyful Activities that Boost Young Children’s Development

December 11, 2024
We could all use a little more joy in our lives—and the activities in today’s post will help you infuse more fun and positivity into your routines with young children.…

5 Reading Activities to Improve Your Students’ Fluency

December 5, 2024
Reading fluency is a vitally important element of reading success. As a teacher, you can help build students’ fluency with repeated reading activities—a great way for struggling readers to log…

8 Ways to Boost Social-Emotional Skills in an Inclusive Classroom

December 3, 2024
Inclusive classrooms should focus not only on nurturing students’ academic skills, but also on promoting the social-emotional skills all learners will need to make friends, work well with others, and…

ASQ:SE-2: Your Key to Meeting New Guidelines for Social-Emotional Screening

November 28, 2024
Over the summer, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule on Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming. (Read a summary here.) The new requirements…

10 Principles for Teaching Phonological Awareness

November 26, 2024
Phonological awareness is an essential skill that lays a foundation for success in reading. Excerpted and adapted from the third edition of Speech to Print by Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D., this post offers…

6 Qualities of Meaningful Mealtimes for Young Children

November 21, 2024
Mealtimes in early learning settings are about more than just eating. They present rich opportunities for connection, learning, and positive food experiences. The new guidebook Meaningful Mealtimes shows early childhood…