The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has an excellent website and one of my favorite features is the Rocking and Rolling section. Several times a year the talented team at ZERO TO THREE authors a new Rocking and Rolling article. For example, the November 2020 article was called Rocking and Rolling: Fostering Curiosity in Infants and Toddlers. It featured recent research about the importance of curiosity, and offered great tips for nurturing it. Check out the November 2017 issue which has suggestions for addressing bias in infant and toddler programs.

This chapter from the DEC Recommended Practices Monograph on Environments describes how to promote access and participation by using universal design strategies and making individualized modifications.

The Course Syllabus Rubric is designed to guide the review and documentation of key content and areas of knowledge/practice that are important to consider when preparing professionals to support each and every child and family. The content areas may be found throughout the syllabus* or in one specific section. A guide for training faculty and other personnel on assessing course syllabi is also included.

This website partners with coalitions in the United States and international organizations to reduce unintentional injury in children. Resources and information for parents, educators, and safety professionals are available on a variety of risk areas in the home, on the road, and in sports and play.

Prepared by NICHD, this video clip offers suggestions and advice on creating a safe sleep environment and reducing risk of SIDS, and other sleep-related causes of infant death.

This study, published in Pediatrics, shares results from a systematic review of the literature on the safety of routine vaccines recommended for children in the United States. The new analysis showed that the hepatitis B vaccine does not appear to cause adverse effects, despite what some groups have claimed. The research also again found no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Furthermore, the polio vaccine was not associated with creating food allergies, as has been claimed, and absolutely no vaccine was linked with causing leukemia or death.

A sample course calendar for Supporting young learners of diverse abilities

This clip demonstrates approaches to scaffolding language learning in the classroom.

This August 2016 TED talk by Dr. Rosemarie Allen offers both personal and professional insights into the challenges of early childhood suspensions and expulsions of Black children. She speaks on identified behaviors exemplified by preschoolers being labeled destructive and disruptive. Dr. Allen identifies how adults perceive child behavior in comparison to their own behaviors, and offers insights about the eager behavior of Black preschoolers. A reflection is provided on the preschool to prison pipeline, along with a call for action to become self-aware as adults in creating safe and equitable teaching environments for preschoolers, with particular attention to Black boys.