Resources For Early Childhood

Desarrollo Social Emocional: Un Folleto para las Familias de Kansas

El temprano desarrollo de un niño sirve como base para el aprendizaje posterior. El propósito de este folleto es presentarle a las familias algunas habilidades, llamadas etapas de desarrollo, que los niños desarrollan y el orden en el cual suceden. Un muestreo de ideas se ofrece en las siguientes páginas para ayudar a que se desarrollen dichas habilidades.

Filed under Early Childhood Espanol and tagged with early childhood child development social/emotional social development on March 12, 2010 #

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Social Emotional Development in Early Childhood: A Booklet for Kansas Families

This booklet has been complied to provide information on the development of social and emotional skills in young children and is intended for use by Kansas families.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with social/emotional social development Early Learning Document on March 12, 2010 #

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Kindgarten in Kansas

Congratulations! Your child will soon be old enough to enter kindergarten! During this time of mixed emotions, as you move into the role of trusting partner of his/her kindergarten teacher, this booklet will help ease the process. Designed to provide you information on what you need to know and what you can expect as the first day of school approaches, we hope it is just what you’re looking for! This resource may also be purchased from KPIRC for $1.00 per copy by emailing your request to kpirc@kpirc.org

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with early childhood Head Start kindergarten transition Order from KPIRC early childhood education family early literacy back to school school readiness family school partnership development on March 05, 2010 #

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KPIRC 2008-2009 Annual Summary Report

The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center promotes meaningful parent involvement at all levels of education and provides information and resources to help parents, educators and other organizations promote the educational success of every Kansas child. This report summarizes the work of the KPIRC for the 2008-09 grant year.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with Order from KPIRC accountability on February 22, 2010 #

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Collaborating with Families

The IRIS Center and the PACER Center have created an interactive, online module to support educators in diversifying and improving family participation in school. In the module, a principal and staff demonstrate how they gain information about of their students' families because this helps them best engage all members of a family in education. Many schools enjoy a high level of parental involvement from some families, but schools should be ever-interested in increasing involvement, especially among families of students with disabilities.

Filed under Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with Parent Involvement Plan parent leadership on February 18, 2010 #

Parent Leadership: Successful Strategies

Although public policies governing education, health and human services and family support have promoted parent leadership for years, State and local programs often have encountered many challenges in engaging parents in leadership roles. This “successful strategies” document shares lessons from parents and organizations that have led the way. It is designed to help Community-Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) programs promote and expand parent leadership.

Filed under Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with leadership parent involvement Parent Involvement Plan on January 26, 2010 #

Circles of Caring: What Child Abuse Prevention Looks Like

The West Virginia Prevent Child Abuse America Chapter has created a short video based on the Strengthening Families Protective Factors. It is a powerful combination of the recent Frameworks reframing research blended with the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Protective Factors framework.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with protective factors child abuse prevention social/emotional on January 26, 2010 #

Reading Tip Sheets for Parents

Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in eleven languages!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood Espanol and tagged with early literacy fluency phonemic awareness phonics literacy reading on January 15, 2010 #

Born Learning: Your Child At...Series

Throughout the early years, your child will grow and change tremendously. For more information about your child’s age and stage, use the following tools. Includes information on development, immunization schedules, discipline, and more!

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with development immunizations parenting on January 14, 2010 #

A Place of Our Own

KCET’s A Place of Our Own (and Los Niños en Su Casa in Spanish) is a daily television series, a website, and an extensive outreach program devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children. Family, friends and neighbors – everyone who takes care of young children – are child care providers. Every interaction and every activity of these adults with their charges provide valuable opportunities to help children learn and grow. A Place of Our Own shares ways for us all to help children acquire cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills, as well as nurture language and literacy development.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with high quality preschool early childhood education podcasts literacy on January 14, 2010 #

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