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Is Something Wrong? Identifying Neglect in Young Children

It is an unfortunate fact that thousands of children are neglected in their formative years. Child neglect is when a parent or caregiver either intentionally or carelessly allows children to come to harm due to a lack of interaction. Neglect can appear as hunger, poor hygiene, lack of love and affection, dismissal of the child’s learning or development, or failure to treat illness or injury. However, even with so many ways neglect can occur, it can often be hard to spot.
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Related Book: The Neglected Child
Engaging Culturally Diverse Families in Early Learning

Classrooms are diverse communities. Even in small daycares, people of multiple cultures and backgrounds come together to share the education space. When a classroom has students from various cultures, teachers should create an environment that accepts and includes different backgrounds. How to start? Engaging families!
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Related Book: The Welcoming Classroom
FREE Webinar with CE Credit: 52 Reproducible Letters and Activities for Parents

Join Alison Pepper as she provides educators of four-year-old children ideas to engage families in preparing their child for kindergarten.
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Related Book: Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness
Learning to Lose: Raising a Good Sport

No one likes to lose, but for young children just learning how to navigate negative feelings, losing can be an especially big deal. That’s why teaching resilience is so important.
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Related Book: Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure
Should All Children be Required to Read Aloud in Class?

Reading aloud is a tried and true method for building literacy in young students. Many of us can remember going around the room and reading a page from a story book, or being called on to start the next paragraph. But for some, this test of reading ability can be stressful, especially for children who struggle with language.
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Related Book: Literacy for All Young Learners
Mentoring Matters—How to Support New Teachers

Teaching is a very rewarding field, but no one has ever claimed it is easy. First year teachers often find they are entering a whole new world to navigate, one with many challenges they may not have anticipated. Be it managing the classroom, working with parents, or exploring their role in the school they work in, many things can leave new teachers feeling lost and discouraged. That’s why one of the best strategies to support new teachers is mentoring. There are many roles in the school community whose tasks include mentoring new teachers. Principals, administrative faculty, and even just more experienced educators can all have a part in supporting new teachers, a role Nancy Alexander calls “Technical Assistance.”
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Related Book: Nailing Jelly to the Wall
Diving Into Diversity for MLK Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a holiday we can use to teach our children so many life lessons. Whether it’s diversity, equality or simply the importance of access to education for all, the holiday is one well worth celebrating because of the man who shared his dream.
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Related Book: Wired to Move
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4 Early Education Goals in the New Year

Holiday breaks are a great time for spending time with family, but they're also a great time for teachers and parents to reset for the new year. With time to reassess, you can see what has and hasn't been working in your child's approach to learning. As you consider what direction you want your classroom or home to go in, we have compiled a few key areas with tips from Nancy Bruski's The Insightful Teacher that you may want to consider.
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Related Book: The Insightful Teacher
National Preparedness Month: Preparing Your Staff

Whether you are preparing for a natural disaster or emergencies that can happen unexpectedly, it is important for your staff to know what to do in case something happens. If you have a small staff, it can be hard to have one person designated to deal with disaster readiness, so we've got a few tips to help you inform and train your staff about their shared responsibilities!
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Related Book: Preparing for Disaster

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