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Free Printable Games and Activities
Download and print these
free classification, matching and memory games and activity templates for the children in your program!
Webinar: Ready or Not? Incorporating e-learning into your PD
In
this webinar, participants will discuss what to look for in selecting high-quality e-learning that fits your budget. You’ll also get tips to help you determine if your CNC program staff are ready to learn online and ways to ensure that your e-learning efforts pay off. Participants will also receive downloadable tools and additional resources to help get you started!
Webinar: Extending the Book Experience: Strategies That Promote Language and Literacy in Dual Language Learners
Are you familiar with strategies that support DLLs in each stage of language development? Are you creating purposeful and intentional learning experiences that foster English language acquisition? Based on the planning guide,
10 Best Practices for Developing Book Experiences for Dual Language Learners, this webinar will support early childhood educators as they improve overall academic success with language and literacy development.
Webinar: Extending the Book Experience: Strategies That Promote Language and Literacy in Dual Language Learners
Are you familiar with strategies that support DLLs in each stage of language development? Are you creating purposeful and intentional learning experiences that foster English language acquisition? Based on the planning guide,
10 Best Practices for Developing Book Experiences for Dual Language Learners,
this webinar will support early childhood educators as they improve overall academic success with language and literacy development.
Resource: Raising Teens in a New Country: A Guide for the Whole Family
This guide was created for parents and teens who are new to the U.S, and for service providers who are working with newcomer families. It's full of great information and conversation starters that could be used in parent or teen workshops and supports.
Planning a summer school-age program?
Creating Quality School-Age Child Care Space has helpful sections on space planning, programming and activities that are full of ideas to help you!
Playing with Rainbows: A National Play Program for At-Risk Refugee Children is now available, free of charge!
The
Playing with Rainbows manual, developed by YWCA of Canada, outlines a play-based group model designed to facilitate healing in school-age children and youth who have been traumatized by experiences of war and migration. You can
download the manual, free of charge.
Webinar: Using Loose Parts to Create Culturally Sustainable Environments
A culturally sustainable environment embraces and values the multi-ethnic and multilingual capacities of young children and families. It is how tradition, history, and culture come together to improve the quality of life- culturally, economically, socially, and environmentally. Not just for today, but for future generations to come. A culturally sustainable environment supports children’s development, renews and maintains their humanity to create enduring relationships with nature and with other people in the community and from around the world. In
this webinar, you will learn how to use loose parts to design environments that foster culturally sustainability.
Video – Early Childhood Trauma: A Quick Overview
Trauma in early childhood can present in lots of different, complex ways. As early childhood educators though, you're in an incredibly important position to be able to help children with the healing process. This video gives
a quick overview of childhood trauma, and three things you can do to help!
