Play Space Assessment for Preschool
This tool helps to identify the strengths and needs of an existing play space, and serves as a basis for setting priorities and planning enhancements and improvements.
Affordable Settings and Elements: Ideas for Cost Effective Solutions
With a few easy-to-find materials and willing volunteers, many settings and elements can be created to greatly improve children's spaces.
Higher Education Learning Modules
These learning modules are highlights of higher education courses from the EarlyEdU Alliance®. They go a bit deeper since they combine theory and the latest early childhood education research with students’ field-based learning.
Developmental Screening Tips, Tools, and Resources
Screening for potential developmental delays in children allows for early treatment and supportive services. On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, Head Start educators and families will find a number of resources on developmental screening tools.
Learning from Assessment (LFA) Toolkit
The LFA Toolkit is a collection of presentations, handouts, guided practice exercises, and descriptions of additional resources designed to support program staff in enhancing, conducting, and interpreting child assessments. It builds upon the assessment knowledge and expertise programs already possess, and the materials can be used selectively to design trainings that will meet programs' particular needs.
Home Language Support
Children who speak home languages other than English make up at least one third of Head Start enrollment. They speak more than 140 languages and are enrolled in 87 percent of all Head Start programs. All Head Start staff, and policy makers will want to understand what these young dual language learners (DLLs) need in order to thrive in Head Start and beyond. They will also want to know how to support DLL’s development and school readiness skills.
Supporting Transitions: Resources for Building Collaboration
Supporting transitions can have positive effects on children and families, and collaboration is key to effective transition. Each brief in this series focuses on a different partnership level: the child and family, early educators, early care and education (ECE) programs, and ECE partners.
Ongoing Child Assessment
These 15-minute In-service Suites are a professional development resource for staff in busy, active early childhood centers and programs. They are organized around one topic or big idea and address effective teaching and assessment practices.
25 Easy Ideas for Nature Play for Early Childhood Centers
When you learn and teach with Mother Nature at your side, you open the door to endless possibilities for children and for yourself.
Building a Solid Foundation
This in-service suite introduces the foundation of the Framework for Effective Practice. It focuses on engaging interactions and environments.