Be a Fly on the Wall Whether you’re a new CLASS observer or you’ve observed in hundreds of classrooms, you may wonder about or struggle with where to ...
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As a former teacher, coach and Center Director, I remember hearing about new types of professional development and other materials across the early ...
A few months ago, I came upon this article by Christina Quattrocchi at EdSurge. It spoke to so many of the themes we are seeing in professional ...
One cold evening, as January passed into February, I sat down to review over 20 different sources that summarized President Obama’s budget and the ...
“Of course!” That was the reaction of many in the field of early childhood when the Head Start Reauthorization of 2007 (Improving Head Start for ...
At conferences and in trainings across the country, I hear from coaches who are nervous; they need to support teachers in developing Instructional ...
We’re happy to introduce a new video blog series for coaches: What You Need to Know If You’re New to the CLASS. During this series, we’ll introduce ...
We need to let the child do the work of figuring out how to zip up their coat and how letters signify sounds. We need them to keep trying, even when ...
For teachers My daughters were both early talkers (taking after their chatty mother, I’m sure). My oldest’s first word was, adorably, “Mama.” My ...
Originally featured by the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. Program leaders’ understanding of what it means to provide quality ...