New Podcast: The Brain Architects
Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation. From brain architecture to toxic stress to serve and return,
The Brain Architects will explore what we can do during this incredibly important period to ensure that all children have a strong foundation for future development.
Early childhood insights and inspirations…
Check out this website full of
inspiration and ideas for early childhood activities, program setup, health and safety, instructional strategies, inclusion, professional development and more!
Global Storybooks
Global Storybooks is a
free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide. Now, you can read, download, toggle, and listen to a wide variety of illustrated stories in different languages!
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education?
Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) validates and affirms the cultures of children and incorporates their cultures in multiple aspects of learning and the environment in meaningful ways. This approach also encourages early childhood educators to hold high expectations of the children and their ability to learn. Here are our ways to validate and affirm young students’ cultures in meaningful ways.
Podcast: The Future of Play
In this episode of the preschool
podcast, experts explain how early educators can work together to face the challenges of reopening, while maintaining the engagement that children get from learning through play.
HiMama Helps Webinar: Team Building
In this webinar, participants will learn about the Enneagram framework and how it can be used to better understand, communicate with, and motivate the different personalities on your team - which is especially important as we navigate reopening during the pandemic!
Webinar – Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms: A Response to Racism
Join the lead authors of
Don’t Look Away, Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms in a roundtable discussion on
how to explore and address issues of bias and equity in your program. Participants will also hear about tools and strategies to promote family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences for the children in your program.
11 Children’s Books About the Refugee Experience
Looking for new books for your program? Here's a list of 11 books for children of different ages that
focus on the refugee experience.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: 30th Anniversary
The Convention on the Rights of the Child explains children's rights and the responsibilities of governments - and you can
find the 30th Anniversary children's edition here!
African Storybook
African Storybook provides open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa for children’s literacy, enjoyment and imagination. They have resources and tools for reading, translating stories and even making your own storybook!
