Online Preschool: Panacea for Inequality or Placebo for Guilt?
If There Was Just One Thing…
If you could measure the quality of an early childhood setting by only one factor, what would it be?
School Readiness AND Developmentally Appropriate Practice? How to Get on the Same Page with Parents.
When I do workshops and trainings with teachers, I often hear several variations of the same question.
“But what about at home?”
Resources for Defending Childhood
My voice is nearly gone.
The combination of a cold I picked up snuggling my sniffling 5 year old earlier in the week, together with three 1 1/2 hour presentations given in less than 24 hours time, has dropped my voice several decibels and quite likely a full octave.
Steve Spangler and the Human Beings
I’ve been having some fun telling people I shared a speaking engagement with Steve Spangler over the weekend. Technically it is true, though Steve and I never actually met. He was the keynote speaker at an early childhood education conference where I taught one of the breakout sessions.
High Quality Early Education: Dollars and Sense
Let me start off by making one thing clear. Young children deserve a high quality early education because it is our responsibility as adults to care for them and give them what they need. It’s a matter of moral responsibility. Children need quality experiences to be whole and healthy and to meet the outer limits of their grand potentials, both as children and as adults. That said, there have been a series of interesting articles recently, coming from unlikely sources. It’s not NAEYC or Zero to Three issuing these papers, it’s economists and business leaders.
