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This soft, cozy ball provides tons of comfort and security—an ideal way for kids to calm themselves whenever they need it! Designed to give children a “hug,” the plush ball helps reduce anxiety and soothes the senses when kids slip in their arms and give it a little squeeze. Best o…

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Our Praxis test fee waiver program is designed to support aspiring educators who may need financial assistance on their journey to the classroom.

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CCCPDF-Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund

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CCCPDF-Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund

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The Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund (CCCPDF) is a tuition assistance program for child care providers to obtain a college education at participating colleges/universities in Maryland. Funding is available for child care providers to earn a college degree in the following areas:

Early Childhood Education

Child Development

Elementary Education

Special Education

The fund does not reimburse participants as the payments are made directly to the college or university. MSDE will notify applicants of whether or not they have received fund approval.
CCCPDF Grant Application Guide
Application Due Dates

First-time applications are due by March 1.

Continuation applications are due by June 30.

Transfer applications (students transferring from a participating 2-year college to a participating 4-year university) due by June 30

First-time applications are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority is given to applicants who have not yet completed any college courses for credit from an accredited college or university.

CCCPDF

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Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund (CCCPDF)

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The Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund (CCCPDF) is a tuition assistance program for child care providers to obtain a college education at participating colleges/universities in Maryland. Funding is available for child care providers to earn a college degree in the following areas: Early Childhood Education Child Development Elementary Education Special Education The fund does not reimburse participants as the payments are made directly to the college or university.

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Materials Reimbursement Form-Due on the last day of each month

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Materials Reimbursement Form-Due on the last day of each month

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Substitute Reimbursement Form- Due on the last day of the month

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Pre-K Invoice Form- Due on the 5th of the month, for the previous month. 

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Pre-K Invoice Form- Due on the 5th of the month, for the previous month. 

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Our kit is packed with a variety of tools that help children learn to regulate their emotions—and find their favorite method for calming down and comforting themselves! You get an emotion slider to help kids recognize and label their feelings…4 fun-to-touch gel-bead “friends” that soothe as children…

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An EDITABLE calm down kit, book, binder, or posters! These calm down resources can easily be assembled for a calm down corner, a book, or placed in a binder. Simply print, cut around the tabs, and hole punch. Most of the pages are editable, so you can fit your student needs.

With these calm down resources, students can identify how they are feeling, read a social story, select a calm down choice, select a breathing exercise, and read a check list to ensure they are ready to go!
What is Included? Calm Down Booklet

Calm Down, Cool Down, & Take a Break Covers*

Feelings*

Social Story*

Student Calm Down Choices*

Breathing Exercises

"I am Ready to Go" Check List*

Exercise Choice Cards

Calm Down, Cool Down, & Take a Break Labels

Calm Down Digital Book Link**

Feelings and Emotions Booklet
Pages come with tabs for easy access and without tabs

We all have Feelings and Emotions Cover

When I feel Angry

When I feel Sad

When I feel Scared

When I feel Mad

When I feel Embarrassed

When I feel Shy

Self Regulation Strategies

*EDITABLE pages

Everything comes in COLOR and BLACK and WHITE!
The Calm Down Digital Book is accessed through Boom Learning. You can easily send students a link to bookmark/save or assign through Boom Learning. What do I need to access these materials?

a computer, iPad, laptop, or Chromebook

internet access

a Boom Learning account (FREE)

To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. For additional assignment options you'll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.

You may be eligible for a free trial from Boom Learning. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial. If you choose not to stay on a premium account after your free trial, you will still be able to assign all your Boom Cards to as many students as you see fit using Fast Play pins (which give instant feedback for decks that are self-grading).

How do I download or access these materials?
When you purchase this resource, you'll receive a PDF download. Inside the PDF you will find directions and a link to click. You'll click the link to add the deck (task cards) to your Boom Library.

Boom Learning:

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Calm Down Corner Strategies EDITABLE - Distance Learning

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An EDITABLE calm down kit, book, binder, or posters! These calm down resources can easily be assembled for a calm down corner, a book, or placed in a binder. Simply print, cut around the tabs, and hole punch. Most of the pages are editable, so you can fit your student needs.

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Class Completion Form- Due on the last day of the month of completed class

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Class Completion Form- Due on the last day of the month of completed class

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Introduction to Creative Curriculum, pieces and parts

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Young children thrive when they have stable and engaging relationships with their caregivers. Yet child care providers struggle to pay their staff a living wage, which contributes to the alarmingly high turnover rates in child care settings. The Enhanced Child Care Support and Teacher Retention Award (ECSTRA) Program seeks to help stabilize the early childhood educator workforce by directing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds directly to educators who remain in key child care roles, in the form of additional retention bonuses.

The ECSTRA program is inspired by a similar program in Virginia, the Teacher Recognition Program, which reduced t eacher turnover rates by 50% in child care centers. Across the United States, many state and local governments are seeking to support the early childhood education workforce through increasing compensation. A major challenge facing policymakers is, given constrained funding and a need to balance bonus sizes with reaching a larger population of early childhood educators, whether offering larger bonuses indeed leads to greater impacts on retention and other outcomes. Findings from the ECSTRA program will help to inform these and other questions, both for MSDE and for other policy contexts.

Maryland early educators may apply for the program and provide the Maryland State Department of Education with up-to-date and accurate information about their employment status. To participate in the ECSTRA program, individual early educators must apply for the program, meet certain eligibility criteria, and agree to participate in a lottery to determine the size of the retention bonus they will be eligible to receive. Applicants will be notified if they are in the ECSTRA program in October 2023. ECSTRA participants will receive their ECSTRA retention bonuses if they remain employed in the same program in an eligible role from the start of the ECSTRA program for at least 5 months to receive the first half of the retention bonus, and at least 8 months to receive the second half of the bonus.

When will the application be open?

Application Submission Date

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Enhanced Child Care Support and Teacher Retention Award (ECSTRA) Retention Bonus Program

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Young children thrive when they have stable and engaging relationships with their caregivers. Yet child care providers struggle to pay their staff a living wage, which contributes to the alarmingly high turnover rates in child care settings.

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This video explains how to indicate that a student doesn't have documentation due to excessive absences, withdrawal, or late enrollment.

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2 in 1 Fidget Toys, ABC Learning and Educational Toys, Poppers Fidget Toys, Stress Relief, Autism Sensory Toys [26 Letters on One Side | Numbers 1-30 on The Other Side] (1 Pack)

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Pop Fidget Toys Its Ball Toy 4 PCS 3D Stress Balls It Pop Fidgets Pack Party Favors for Kids Toys Autism Sensory Toys Bulk Squeeze Toys Toddler Toys for Boys Adult Stress Relief Easter Basket Stuffers

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Explore the underwater world of creatures from sea turtles to clown fish in this touch and feel board book. Perfect for little hands to hold, this sensory board book features a variety of materials to touch and feel.

Features a silicone touch and feel element on the cover and various touch and feel elements on each spread

Interactive fun and tactile learning in this children's book will engage young readers' senses

Toddlers will enjoy the different touch and feel elements

Real photography of a dolphin, seahorse, starfish, seal and more are shown in this toddler book

Learn fun facts about each ocean friend

Add a new baby book to a child's library today!

These fun children's board books are perfect for reading anytime or to give as gifts for special occasions such as, birthday gifts, baby shower wishing well gifts or for holidays such as Christmas, Easter or Valentine's Day. Look for our other touch and feel board books, children's padded board books, novelty books and more at amazon.com/littlehippobooks.

Whether you're looking for well-known tales, tender or funny animal stories, or educational books for toddlers, Little Hippo® Books will become bedtime, or anytime, reading favorites!

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Ocean Friends - Touch and Feel Board Book - Sensory Board Book

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Why Choose "Who do you see" Ocean Fish Crinkle Cloth Book?

2 In-1 Baby Toy For Infants, Babies and Toddlers!

It's a Baby book, Teething Toy, Montessori toy, and Tummy time toy with a large mirror!

Unique, Unisex & Appealing Soft Book Design: Designed based on the joyful and classical "Who do you see?" theme, Our Ocean lightweight fabric book is extremely soft, and each page has a new & exciting adventure of the sea animal world to explore; Peek-a-boo flap, touch & feel toys, squeaker, crinkle paper & included a Gift Box, mirror and teether for babies, altogether makes a fantastic gift for 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 0-6 months 6 to 12 months and 1 year old babies 2 Years old & Up. No need to remind that babies love to lift a flap book, especially our Sea animals Fish baby books!

Educational & Early Learning Busy Book With Entertaining Features On Every Page: This peekaboo Sea animal book we are selling exclusively on the Bebe mondo store would be the right choice to make your baby happy & learn the little ones some essential skills. The positive outcomes of reading books for babies could not be overstated. International research shows that children who had books read aloud to them as a baby are more successful at school and incredibly grow imaginations. This educational toy book is one big adventure! Our shark soft book is perfect for the first Christmas gift!

Premium Quality: Infants like to discover & get to know everything by putting it in their mouth, and this premium fabric, non-toxic, safe, washable, soft crinkle book with strong stitching, is precisely safe, durable, and chewable!

Great Gift,2 In-1 Toy For Babies: Bebe Mondo's "who do you see" undersea infant activity book toys have a teething ring which at the same time could be used to be hanged from strollers & baby carriage to be carried easily and in the meantime, make your kid amused.

100% Happiness: Bebemondo team does their best to deserve your highest level of Happiness. We are always ready to help! We will do our best to serve you. Bebe mondo is an American Brand.

BEST DESIGN & PREMIUM QUALITY FOR YOUR BABY: Proudly, our baby books & Educational toy are designed by experts in the US & Canada; Bebe mondo is an American Brand with High Quality & Safe Material.

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Crinkle Books Baby Toys Touch Feel Baby Books for Babies 0-6 Months Infants Toddlers Toy 6 to 12 Months 1-3 Years Old Boy Girl Shower Gifts, Box, Teether Ring, Soft Cloth Book Sensory Toys Fish Shark

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From a koala's woolly fur to an elephant's leathery ear, there are five fun textures to explore in this book that you read and touch! Includes fun, rhyming text about each animal and touch and feel material on every spread. There are a total of five touch and feel elements that will make children want to come back to read this fun book over and over.

Children naturally use their senses to explore their environment. Our Wild Animals Touch and Feel board book is a great way for your child to explore and learn interesting facts about animals from all parts of the world. Each spread has a rhyming fun fact about the features of that wild animal, as well as a different touch and feel material to stimulate the senses.

Enjoy reading time where a child can explore these fun wild animals:

Whether you're looking for well-known tales, tender or funny animal stories, or educational books for toddlers, Little Hippo® board books will become bedtime, or anytime, reading favorites!

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Wild Animals: A Touch and Feel Book - Children's Board Book - Educational

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Skills such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, and waving "bye bye" are called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move.

Click on the age of your child to see the milestones:

"Learn the Signs. Act Early." materials are not a substitute for standardized, validated developmental screening tools.

Special acknowledgments to the subject matter experts and others who contributed to the review of data and selection of developmental milestones, especially Paul H. Lipkin, MD, Michelle M. Macias, MD, Julie F. Pajek, PhD, Judith S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN, Karnesha Slaughter, MPH, Jane K. Squires, PhD, Toni M. Whitaker, MD, Lisa D. Wiggins, PhD, and Jennifer M. Zubler, MD.
Sincere gratitude to Natalia Benza, MD and José O. Rodríguez, MD, MBA for their thoughtful review of the Spanish-language translation of these milestones.

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“learn the signs. act early.” milestones

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Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age. Track your child's milestones and talk with your child's doctor at every visit about the milestones your child has reached

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How to Use Intentional Teaching Experiences to Collect Documentation

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How to Use Intentional Teaching Experiences to Collect Documentation

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How to Use Intentional Teaching Experiences for Documentation

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How to Use Intentional Teaching Experiences for Documentation

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How to Use Teaching Strategies App for Documentation 

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How to Assign Multiple Objectives to One Piece of Documentation

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How to Assign Multiple Objectives to One Piece of Documentation

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How to Assign Multiple Objectives to One Piece of Documentation

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Here are some tips to help families support their child's speech and language development:

Talk about what you're doing, what your child is doing, and what your child sees. Use longer sentences as your child grows older.

Communicate with your child in the languages that you are most comfortable using.

Use a lot of different words with your child. Don't worry about using big words. Children enjoy new and unusual words.

Listen and respond to your child.

Help your child listen. Give directions for your child to follow.

Have your child's hearing tested if you find yourself repeating a lot or using a loud voice.

Tell stories to your child a lot. Read to your child as much as you can.

Ask questions and talk about what happened in the story. Read to your child in the languages they are learning.

Don't interrupt your child to correct their speech sounds. It's okay if your child makes some mistakes with sounds. Say the sounds correctly when you talk.

Ask questions that need more than a yes or no answer. Encourage your child to ask you questions.

Set limits for screen time. Use that time for talking, reading, and playing together.

Don't wait to get help if you're concerned. You know your child best. Getting help early can stop later problems with behavior, learning, reading, and social relationships.

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ASHA's communication milestones are designed to help you know what to expect as your child grows and develops and to know when to seek the guidance of an audiologist or speech language pathologist.