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Infant Toddler Science and Sensory Activities

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Infant Toddler Science and Sensory Activities

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www.actionforchildren.org

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Our professionally trained Designer/Educator teams can help you create a new outdoor classroom or redesign an existing playground to become a nature-rich learning environment.

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Infant/Toddler Resource Guide Home | Child Care Technical Assistance Network

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About the Infant/Toddler Resource Guide What is the purpose of this guide? This Resource Guide offers a host of materials to support the development and implementation of policies and practices for high-quality care for infants and toddlers. Whether you are a Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) A…

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Part of the Penn State Extension suite of services, the PD hours awarded by Better Kid Care include time spent reading content, watching videos, completing exercises, and taking the assessment. You may complete some of these away from the screen.

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Research shows that professionals who continue learning offer higher quality care to children and youth. Our online lessons were created for professionals like you who want to learn to enhance programs for children and youth. No more than 9 hours of On Demand professional development will be awarded in one calendar day.

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Activities Across Developmental Domains for Childcare and Preschool Programs - brightwheel

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Storage, Handling, and Preparation of Breast Milk

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Storage, Handling, and Preparation of Breast Milk

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in Early Care and Education (ECE) Programs

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Infant Caregivers can use this USDA guide to support infant feeding routines.

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How You Can Build Healthy Sleep Routines

Sleep is important to how your child learns, grows, and even behaves. Children

who get enough sleep regularly do better in school and have fewer behavior issues.

A regular bedtime routine can help your child get enough sleep. It can also make

bedtime easier for you!

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Use this self evaluation to assess how your program supports the safety and supervision of children. childcareaware.org

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From the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety (Office of Head Start)

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MITM has helped transform groundbreaking research into practice to build essential life skills in children and adults.

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When to Teach Letters, Colors and Numbers to Babies

What a wondrous time! Children are born learning and, in these early years, you are laying the foundation for their lifelong learning. And the Life Skill of Making Connections is at the heart of learning.

When Should We Begin Promoting Focus and Self Control?

The skill of focus and self control begins to develop in the early childhood years, but it doesn't fully become established until the later teen and early adult years. The prefrontal cortex is among the last parts of the brain to mature.

Mind in the Making is Joining Families & Work Institute

A Letter from Ellen Galinsky, Founder of Mind in the Making

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Science in Action: Building essential life skills in children by transforming groundbreaking research into practice.

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You can find more tips like these—as well as videos, information, and more—on Too Small to Fail’s website,

www.talkingisteaching.org.

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Are you struggling to create programming for your FCC or GFDC? Use this template as a guide for themes you can adopt in your program!

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From The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

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American Academy  of Pediatrics Infographic- Responsive Feeding

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American Academy  of Pediatrics Infographic- Responsive Feeding

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Nurture Curiosity for Every Student Educator Classroom

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Nurture Curiosity for Every Student Educator Classroom

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Curiosity is key to keeping students motivated to learn. Together, let’s nurture your students’ natural curiosity to propel growth in every classroom.

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Nurture Curiosity for Every Student Educator Classroom

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Discovery Education | Your Daily Learning Platform

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Discovery Education inspires educators to go beyond traditional learning with award-winning digital content and professional development. Learn more today!

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Tip sheets for families to support reading at all ages.

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Messy play is the open-ended exploration of materials and their properties. It allows children to use their natural

curiosity and engage their senses at the developmental level appropriate for them. They learn foundational

cognitive principles as they exercise motor, language, and social skills. Messy play offers one of the best

integrated learning experiences children can have.

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Use the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center's page on Visual Supports for children with disabilities to support your work in your early childhood program! For infants, toddlers and preschoolers!

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Some children have difficulty understanding verbal instructions and requests. Not understanding the expectations of a learning environment, what to do, or what will happen next can have a negative effect on a child's participation and engagement in activities, routines, and interactions. Head Start staff can use pictures or visuals in a variety of ways to present important information in a way that helps children understand and use it. Visual supports encourage engagement and learning in many different settings - including in the classroom, at home, and in the community - as well as across routines and activities.

This high-quality collection of visuals and supports can be printed and used immediately to support young children's development and learning. Each visual support includes a guide that explains what the support is, why it might be used, and how to increase the participation, engagement, and learning of children in your learning environment.

These visuals show examples of common rules in early learning environments. Use them to teach children a variety of safe and positive behaviors. Post them in your learning environment and talk about them often with children. Model the behaviors and provide children many opportunities to practice them.

These visuals show examples of play areas and materials that are common in early childhood environments. They can help children understand what to play with and how to play, which supports children to engage more independently. Display these visuals in the learning centers within your program environment. Use them to label areas and materials. Have conversations about the pictures to help children get ideas for things to do during play and art activities.

These visual supports provide information about common daytime activities, routines, and transitions to help children fully participate and engage. Use the visuals to help children understand what they should be doing and when they should be doing it to increase independence. Create a daily schedule with the pictures so children know what activities will happen next. An activity schedule can also help children understand the parts of a routine with multiple steps.

These visuals support children in learning important social and emotional skills, such as emotion regulation, problem-solving, and friendship skills. Use them to help children recognize, communicate, and manage their emotions. Build children's social skills using pictures of ways to initiate interactions with peers, comfort a friend, or solve a social problem. Talk about the pictures and encourage children to use them in different situations.

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These pictures and visuals help present important information in a way that children can understand and use. They encourage engagement and learning in many different settings, routines, and activities.

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This resource focuses on the advancement of children's mental health and wellness. Check out the Family Resource Center for training educators and mental health professionals can use to support their work.

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Child Mind Institute | Transforming Children’s Lives.

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The Child Mind Institute is an independent nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children struggling with mental health and learning disorders.

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Head Start : Early Childhood  Learning and Knowledge Center

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Head Start : Early Childhood  Learning and Knowledge Center

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Homepage: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/
Professional Development:
https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/professional-development

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ECETP: Early Childhood Education Training Program

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ECETP: Early Childhood Education Training Program

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Find trainings on a variety of topics.
Website: https://www.ecetp.pdp.albany.edu/findtraining.aspx?Prog=EL&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

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Webinar links and resources

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SCRIPT-NC Webinar: Early Literacy for All!

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This webinar focuses on strategies to help adult learners support the foundations of early literacy development for young children who are diverse in cultures, languages, and abilities. This webinar will share current readings, handouts, engaging activities, and effective assignments for adult learners to grow their early literacy related background knowledge and effective practice implementation skills.

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Supporting early childhood education professionals worldwide
in their efforts to craft thriving environments for children and adults.

Free PD videos
Video webpage: https://www.childcareexchange.com/catalog/edflicks/

Login:
c.turco@childcarecouncil.com

Pw:home2020

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Free conference quality webinars, resources and slides.

Webpage: https://www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com/

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National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

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National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

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Webinars, resources (searchable by topic), training and technical assistance resources.

Webpage: https://challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu/

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Select the TRACK you'd like to use (I/T, PS, SA, Training and Curriculum Specialists, Management, or FCC) and browse courses. Courses have video, supplemental resources, articles and great content.
*EXCELLENT resource for CDA!
Homepage: https://www.virtuallabschool.org/

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Our trainings provide accurate, up-to-date, accessible information regarding the best practices schools can implement to create an inclusive environment for all students, regardless of gender status, and on an age-appropriate level.

Click the image for a link to Best Practices for Schools.

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Gender Diversity can help your school provide a supportive, non-discriminatory environment for all students, including gender-nonconforming and transgender children. We help administrators, teachers, and staff gently move from awareness to action in order to create more inclusive learning and social environments.

Our trainings provide accurate, up-to-date, accessible information regarding the best practices schools can implement to create an inclusive environment for all students, regardless of gender status, and on an age-appropriate level.

We went through a remarkable process of transformation as a result of our work with Gender Diversity. Aidan's unrelenting compassion for everyone, his inviting and even tone, and his deep knowledge were instrumental in moving our entire community forward to best serve our students.

- Justin Fox-Bailey, Educator and President - Snohomish Education Association

Increased awareness and education regarding gender identity enables all children to achieve a more holistic and confident school experience. Our aim is to not only assist a school in the optimal inclusion of transgender students, but to highlight the ways that creating a more inclusive environment benefits all students.

Scheduling a training or consultation with Gender Diversity will help you...

Understand, adhere and fully implement a school's anti-discrimination and inclusion policies

More fully incorporate the topic of gender within the school's existing diversity programs and commitments

Support a transgender student through a gender transition

Increase the school community's understanding of gender identity and expression as it relates to all students

Seek specific guidance relating to gender-segregated spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms, sports and other team activities

Adequately and confidently answer questions from parents or other students

With one-on-one lesson planning or problem-solving with a teacher, staff or administrator

Develop age-appropriate classroom instruction on issues related to gender and gender diverse identities and expressions

An ideal educational package includes training for all school personnel, parent education and age-appropriate gender education for students.
Learn more about our training programs available for:

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Best Practices for Schools - Gender Diversity

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Additional toolkits and resources to explore:
http://www.nea.org/tools/30408.htm

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/oct19/vol77/num02/Rethinking_Conventions@_Keeping_Gender-Diverse_Students_Safe.aspx

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Gender Spectrum works to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens.

Click the image for the link to the Educator/Education Professionals page.

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The above quote from Adrienne Rich strongly influences our work with educators. Gender is a critical area to address for all students. Fortunately, educators have been addressing gender in a number of ways over the years and the knowledge regarding how to best create gender-inclusive schools that support every student is well understood. Gender Spectrum can help you whether this is your first step on the journey to creating gender-inclusive schools or for those who want to take the work you already done into new areas.

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Educators and Education Professionals - Gender Spectrum

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The above quote from Adrienne Rich strongly influences our work with educators. Gender is a critical area to address for all students. Fortunately, educators have been addressing gender in a number of ways over the years and the knowledge regarding how to best create gender-inclusive schools that support every student is well understood.

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When you talk, read, and sing with your child—even before she can use words—you’re building her brain and helping to prepare her for success in school and in life.

But it may not always be easy to talk to babies, especially when they can’t talk back. To help, we’ve pulled fun tips and resources grounded in the best science, to help you talk, read, and sing with your child every day.

Home page: https://talkingisteaching.org/
Resources: https://talkingisteaching.org/resources

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References and Resources

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Strategies for Culturally Responsive Coaching

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Strategies for Culturally Responsive Coaching

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6 Adult Learning Theories and how to put them into practice. This article describes what Adult Learning Theory is, explains some key concepts of Adult Learning Theory and offers tips to enhance adult learning.
Website: https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/adult-learning-theories

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Part of the resources attached to a 4 part webinar from the Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center called: Engaging Families and Creating Trusting Partnerships to Improve Child and Family Outcomes  (Webinar series can be found here: https://ectacenter.org/~calls/2017/familyengagement.asp)
Link to Family Engagement resource list: https://ectacenter.org/~pdfs/calls/2017/Family%20Engagement%20Resources_VT_Catlett_April%202017.pdf

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Resource for visuals of high quality environments.
Homepage: https://www.spacesforchildren.com/

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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

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Learn about what trauma is, trauma informed care, advocacy and more.
Homepage: https://www.nctsn.org/
Resources: https://www.nctsn.org/resources/all-nctsn-resources
Webinars and training: https://www.nctsn.org/resources/training

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Helping Kids Everywhere Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder
Choose an AREA OF FOCUS for specialized resources on things like autism, health and hygiene, helping military and refugee families and dealing with trauma.
Website: https://www.sesameworkshop.org/

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ELN is a go-to source for:

·     Interviews with influential early learning leaders

·     News and feature articles that illuminate groundbreaking programs and studies

·     Digital storytelling, videos, engaging tips and resources from communities across the nation and beyond
Website: http://earlylearningnation.com/

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Supporting parents with practical resources that help them connect more positively, deeply and continuously with their babies

Working with policymakers to advance comprehensive and coherent policies that support and strengthen families, caregivers and infant toddler professionals

Providing professionals with knowledge and tools that help them support healthy early development

Browse Resources or explore Topics

Website: www.zerotothree.org

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More than just equipment and supplies, take advantage of their free templates, programs and activities.

Resources: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/resources/free-resources?ref=hpH2

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Erikson Institute: Early Math Collaborative

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Erikson Institute: Early Math Collaborative

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"Together, we are transforming the understanding, teaching and learning of early mathematics from the ground up"

Resources: https://earlymath.erikson.edu/online-learning/
Online Learning: https://earlymath.erikson.edu/online-learning/professional-learning-modules/
Professional Development: https://earlymath.erikson.edu/professional-development-professional-growth-teachers-early-years/

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A blog that helps locate curriculum and  resources in an easy to navigate webpage.

Virtual Field Trips: https://freedomhomeschooling.com/virtual-field-trips/

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Know a provider with an Dual Language Learner? This App allows you to access ccess resources, learn key words and phrases, and discover implementation strategies from your smartphone.
Webpage: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/culture-language/article/ready-dll-mobile-app

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Birth to 5 curriculum, professional development and assessment resources.
Homepage: http://www.frogstreet.com/
Webinars: http://www.frogstreet.com/frog-streets-early-childhood-webinars/

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Resources: https://www.naeyc.org/resources
Training's and Webinars: https://www.naeyc.org/events/trainings-webinars

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Use for Preschool resources based around foundational skills.  Lesson plans, videos and games available.

Resources: https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/preschool/

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PITC Small Groups and Individualized Care Resources

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PITC Small Groups and Individualized Care Resources

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A PDF with articles and links for small groups and individualized care.

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Our resource library is home to high quality multi-lingual learning materials that we have produced for early learning and expanded learning opportunities professionals. All content can be downloaded and used for professional learning, presentations, and coaching opportunities. Resources are made available for free thanks to our ongoing partnership with the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families to advance the fields of early learning and expanded learning opportunities across the State of Washington. We are always adding new high-quality content.

To use you will have to request access, but once you have followed the prompts you'll receive an email with a link to get started. From here you choose your "PD Package" and can go to the downloadable content screen.
Resource Library link: https://cultivatelearning.webdamdb.com/bp/#/

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A resource made for home schooling parents powered by Common Sense.
Homepage: https://wideopenschool.org/

Browse materials as an educator (or as a family) by age group and desired resources.

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Homepage: www.consciousdiscipline.com
Professional Development: https://consciousdiscipline.com/professional-development/
E-Learning: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/

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Eastern Region Association of Forrest and Nature Schools

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Eastern Region Association of Forrest and Nature Schools

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Nature based education resources and online learning.

Website for online learning: http://www.erafans.org/Online-Courses