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The COVID-19 pandemic has been and continues to be a traumatic event for all of us, including young children. The fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and stress of the past months have impacted our lives in different ways. Experts have written about the impacts of the pandemic on children’s development. Children’s responses to stress can manifest both…
Black Babies Matter
A recent article from CNN discusses a new study from George Mason University that analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015. The study found that when White physicians cared for Black newborns, they were about three times more likely to die in the hospital than White newborns. This disparity…
Teacher Strategies to Support the Transition into Preschool
A transition to school is not one singular event or day, but rather a process over time. Transitions can come at many times during a child and family’s life, and in an “ordinary” year, transitioning into preschool is a significant time that typically comes at the end of summer/early fall. Thinking about the transition into…
Remembering Sister Elaine Roulet, 89, Who Helped Female Inmates and Children
We are sharing the obituary of Sister Elaine Roulet, a Roman Catholic nun who made a difference in the lives of women and children over the years. Sister Elaine helped female inmates bond with their children and created programs for mothers both in prison and after release. Read the article written by John Leland from…
Collaborating with Families to Complete Developmental Screening in Blended and Remote Learning
Many educators have expressed how their relationships with families have strengthened during remote learning. We have seen how educators and families have collaborated closely during these past months and how these partnerships have been necessary to understand and advocate for children and their families. One area where this is especially important is during the first…
Collaborating as a Teaching Team During the Pandemic
Insights from the Survey of the Early Childhood Workforce during the COVID-19 Pandemic
I cannot begin to say how proud I am of my staff and colleagues. People react very differently to stress/trauma, and we collectively reacted in a very proactive way to the needs of our center’s families. We closed our doors on Friday, March 13, and by Monday, March 23rd, we began providing daily pre-recorded circle…
Arts and the Revised New York State Early Learning Guidelines
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso From an early age, children engage with the world as artists, composing arrangements of objects, lines, colors, words, sounds, movements, and gestures. Children use art all the time, to represent their ideas about beauty, science, math,…
30 Years of the ADA: The Civil Rights Movement and Your Employees
This past July marked the 30th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA opened many doors for individuals with disabilities, with the rights to equal opportunities in education including higher education and employment. When the early childhood field thinks about the ADA, we most often think about the accommodations and services we…
Child Development from a Place of Wondering
I am an early childhood teacher and two and half years ago I became a mother of a premature baby (32 weeks). He was a brave little baby, learning from day one all the new tasks the doctors asked for: gaining weight, breathing without assistance, eating/drinking, and regulating his temperature. Nurses and doctors were providing…
Using the Revised Early Learning Guidelines to Support Mixed Age Groups in Family Child Care Settings
In 2019, the New York State Early Childhood Advisory Council in collaboration with New York Works for Children released the Revised New York State Early Learning Guidelines: A Child Development Resource for Educators of Children Ages Birth Through Eight. This resource was developed in collaboration with partners and advisors from the NY Early Childhood Professional…
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