In preparing summer professional development for teachers, my district knew we wanted CLASS to play a larger role in our trainings. But how were we ...
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Research has long examined the different ways in which students gain from early childhood education, but two new studies from Tulsa have shown some ...
Incremental growth matters! As anyone who has been to a CLASS training can attest, we are all about incremental growth, resisting the urge to promise ...
Research shows many early childhood educators feel ill-equipped to meet the needs of children who display problem behaviors (Fox & Smith, 2007; ...
What is quality in early education classrooms, and how can we make sure that more children—especially those from low-income families—experience it? ...
I was quite taken aback recently when an intern completing her first semester with a group of young toddlers told me, “My goal when I started the ...
Personally, I get tired of the knee-jerk teacher bashing that often occurs when people compare U.S. student achievement to that in other countries. ...
Early educators are prepared for transitions in a child’s life. Whether it’s introducing them to solid foods, teaching them how to paint within the ...
If you’ve ever been to a CLASS training, you’ve probably seen a graph showing a sort of “state of the union” for CLASS scores, the range of scores in ...
I started out thinking I would write about how CLASS can help children who have challenging behavior, and then the thought occurred: that while yes ...