https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv From the earliest days of American early childhood in the 1850's to The Head Start Movement en-us 2021-09-07 12:02:29 UTC 2026-02-21 20:16:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f570.png julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721681233 Maria Montessori started a program for children ages 4 through 7 called Casa dei Bambini (Children’s House)]]> 2021-09-07 12:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721681233 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721685806 Margarethe Schurz founded of the first kindergarten in the United States]]> 2021-09-07 12:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721685806 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721686724 Elizabeth Peabody organized the first English-speaking kindergarten]]> 2021-09-07 12:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721686724 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721691743 Susan Blow founded the first public school kindergarten]]> 2021-09-07 12:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721691743 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721693377 Susan Blow formed the International Kindergarten Union (IKU)]]> 2021-09-07 12:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721693377 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721724692 John Dewey and his wife, Alice Chapman Dewey founded the University of Chicago Laboratory School to implement their philosophy of a humane approach to education]]> 2021-09-07 12:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721724692 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721729975 IKU formed the Committee of Nineteen]]> 2021-09-07 12:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721729975 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721732222 Patty Smith Hill formed the National Committee on Nursery Schools, which became the National Association for Nursery Education (NANE)]]> 2021-09-07 12:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721732222 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721736122 Lucy Sprague Mitchell created a writer’s workshop for authors of children’s books at Bank Street]]> 2021-09-07 12:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721736122 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721739132 Parents organized to start their own nursery schools. These programs are called parent cooperatives or co-ops.]]> 2021-09-07 12:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721739132 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721742107 Abigail Eliot founded one of the first nursery schools in the United States]]> 2021-09-07 12:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721742107 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721748275 Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision banned schools to be segregated by race]]> 2021-09-07 12:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721748275 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721750917 The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was founded]]> 2021-09-07 12:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721750917 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721754146 Dorothy Howard founded the first Black nursery school in Washington, D.C.]]> 2021-09-07 12:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721754146 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721759295 The first two-way immersion program (taught in both Spanish and English) was established in Miami]]> 2021-09-07 12:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721759295 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721761944 The Head Start Program Performance Standards required that programs help each child build cultural identity, and that staff speak the primary language of the children and are knowledgeable about their culture

The government mandated that 10% of Head Start’s student population be children with special needs]]> 2021-09-07 12:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721761944 julieplease https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721776152 Head Start Project was launched under President Lyndon B. Johnson]]> 2021-09-07 13:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/julieplease/vuga6pgty4bt0yxv/wish/1721776152