Posts Tagged ‘early care’

  1. Dance to Relieve Stress


    by PACE in Category: At Your Center/School,Child Behavior/Development,Everyday,Just For Fun,PACE

     

    “Relaxation movements are not the only way to unwind the body.  Dancing does wonders.”  This is the observation of Alice Honig in her book, Little Kids, Big Worries.

    “Choose slow skating waltzes and other dancing music for toddlers to relax, twirling dreamily to slow tunes.  Some preschoolers love lively and stomping music.  They jump and leap as they dance to those strong beats.  Watch the children dance.  Tensions flow out of their bodies as they move to the music.”

     Interested in learning more? Visit Exchange to purchase this books and others regarding the health and well-being of children.

     

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  2. What Day is the Best Day to Advocate?


    by PACE in Category: Advocacy,At Your Center/School,Child Behavior/Development,Everyday,For The Adults,PACE,Uncategorized

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    Since established in 1955, PACE continually strives to advance the profession of childhood education. California  has a diverse population and soci0-econminc composition which has allowed for the development of an equally diverse response to the early education needs of children.

    According to the most recent data compiled by California’s Resource and Referral Network (R&R Network) nearly 64% of California’s early care and education is provided by private licensed centers. PACE members, who represent this percentage, advocate for the continued professional development  of those who provide early learning opportunities for California’s children and the sustainability of the support services that help strengthen their families.

    PACE believes that EVERYDAY is a great day to Stand Up for Children and to be an advocate for California’s early care and education system!

    Interested in learning how to become more involved with being an advocate? Visit the PACE Action Center to learn more about how you can Stand Up for Children and advocate for the early care and education system throughout California and our Nation.

     

     

     

     

     

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  3. Do You Know What Shapes Brain Circuitry?


    by PACE in Category: Advocacy,At Your Center/School,Child Behavior/Development,Everyday,For The Adults,PACE

     Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry.

    One of the most essential experiences in shaping the architecture of the developing brain is “serve and return” interaction between children and significant adults in their lives. Young children naturally reach out for interaction through babbling, facial expressions, and gestures, and adults respond with the same kind of vocalizing and gesturing back at them. This back-and-forth process is fundamental to the wiring of the brain, especially in the earliest years.

    Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child developed the following video (part two of a three-part series) titled “Three Core Concepts in Early Development”. The series depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse. Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation.

    Click here to view this video and others from the series,”Three Core Concepts in Early Development”, as well as view additional resources from the Center on the Developing Child.

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  4. The Facts


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: Advocacy,For The Adults,PACE

    NIEER Director W. Steven Barnett has released a policy report in which he addresses the question:

    1.  Does high-quality pre-K have lasting benefits?
    2. What is the evidence for the $7 to $1 return on investment for preschool?
    3. Do non-disadvantaged children benefit from pre-K, and is a targeted or a universal approach to preschool more effective?
    4. Are large-scale public pre-K programs, including Head Start, effective?

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  5. State of Early Education


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: Advocacy,PACE

    Preschool Matters by NIEER has put out an interesting blog post about the anticipation of President Obama proposing a significant new investment in early education in his State of the Union address.  In their post NIEER lists their top principles for federal investment in early education.

    What do you think?

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  6. The BIG Question


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: Advocacy,Everyday,For The Adults,PACE

    How to make everyone Stand up for Children?

    As you know this is the theme of our upcoming event Day At The Capitol but more and more it’s the question we need to be answering everyday.  Legislators have come back to us and told us that we need to get the community involved and behind us before they can take any more action.  Below is a piece from a guest blog author, the PACE Public Policy Coordinator, Heather Phebus.

    Throughout the past month PACE Advocates have been present at several “big picture” events throughout the state. As advocates for quality early care and education, and family services throughout California, it is important to take the opportunity to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of our state and reflect upon how its gears turn; but moreover, how the development of our youngest citizens fits into and contributes to the constant movement of that system.

    The essential need for a child to have access to quality early care and education is not new argument — for years research from an array of fields directly and indirectly related to child development, education, and health and humans services has exemplified why the investment in the earliest years of a child’s life are vital to the productive and positive impact on our state, nation and the world. The big question is — how do you, as a provider of quality early care and education and an advocate for children, inform members of your community on the importance of quality early learning and encourage others to Stand Up for Children?

    Do you have ideas on how you would inform the masses to Stand Up for Children? Let PACE know, we would love to learn how to mobilize our advocacy efforts.

     

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  7. Encourage children to play!


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: Child Behavior/Development,For The Adults,PACE

    Creating an atmosphere where children are encouraged to play and participate can have long lasting positive effects.  This type of environment can encourage and create a lifestyle of activity and movement for years to come.  Team Nutrition from the USDA has created a worksheet to help you create just that type of environment for your centers, as well as share with parents to keep the activity going at home!

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  8. Soft skills


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: Child Behavior/Development

    This is a great video that we just added to our PACE YouTube channel from The Heckman Equation.  In this video Heckman speaks to the critical importance of soft skills, a lot of which are developed early in life.  There is now a large body of evidence that these “soft skills have hard effects” and fostering and developing them is essential to future success.

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  9. Build a healthy plate with…


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: At Your Center/School,Child Behavior/Development,Everyday,PACE

    Vegetables!!

    Get all 6 pages of the Build A Healthy Plate with Vegetables tip sheet!  Vegetables can be made fun and you can get kids to eat them, this helps you with ideas for how.

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  10. Active Play Every Day!


    by Katie O'Neil in Category: At Your Center/School,Child Behavior/Development,For The Adults,PACE

    The USDA has released a series of tip sheets about wellness and healthy habits for children. You can read more about the handbook they are developing on their Team Nutrition area of their website.

    We are going to post some of those flyers in the coming days for you to use and share, some would be great to share with your teachers and parents!

    Download all 4 pages of the Active Play Every Day worksheet to use today!

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