Early Ed. Resources from Class, and a Few of My Own

                                             Early Education Resources


NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, fromhttp://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, fromhttp://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

World Organization for Early Childhood Education
http://www.omep-usnc.org/

Association for Childhood Education International
http://acei.org/

·         National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/

·         The Division for Early Childhood
http://www.dec-sped.org/

·         Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/

      Harvard Education Letter
http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

·         Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/

·         Center for Child Care Workforce
http://www.ccw.org/

·         Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/

·         National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

·         National Child Care Association
http://www.nccanet.org/

·         National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/

·         Pre[K]Now
http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067

      The Erikson Institute
http://www.erikson.edu/

      Eco-Healthy Childcare

      http://ecohealthychildcare.org/index.php?page=provider

      Childrens Environmental Health Network www.cehn.org/
(     (thank you Kindra McBride for these last 2 links)

·         YC Young Children

·         Childhood

·         Journal of Child & Family Studies

·         Child Study Journal

·         Multicultural Education

·         Early Childhood Education Journal

·         Journal of Early Childhood Research

·         International Journal of Early Childhood

·         Early Childhood Research Quarterly

·         Developmental Psychology

·         International Journal of Early Years Education

      Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! TED TALKS: documentary,lecture,talk retrieved from youtube.com

      Looking to Montessori to Guide Education Reform: Anna Lee at TEDxMidAtlantic retrieved from youtube.com

      How Creativity, Education, and the Arts Shape a Modern Economy, Sir Ken Robinson, retrieved from http://benefits.nn.k12.va.us/arts/art/ArtsandMinds.pdf

      Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association  www.occrra.org

      The Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association (OCCRRA) is a non–profit member association serving Ohio's eight local child care resource and referral agencies (CCR&Rs). These CCR&Rs are regional hubs providing professional development, technical assistance, and parent services to Ohio's 12 service delivery areas (SDAs). OCCRRA's centralized staff provides statewide coordination of professional development services for early care learning and afterschool programs and professionals. 

      CCR&R agencies are a:

·         Program's source for technical assistance on curriculum and assessment;

·         Professional's source for training and technical assistance;

·         Parent's source for information on child care, preschool and afterschool programs;

·         Community leader and policymaker's source for information on the supply of and demand for programs to meet families' and their children's needs.

      www.starting-point.org

ABOUT STARTING POINT

Starting Point links families to programs and services that meet their children’s early care/education and related needs, and strengthens the community’s capacity to respond to those needs.

Starting Point for child care, early education and out-of-school time care is:

Northeast Ohio's child care, early education and out-of-school time resource and referral agency--serving families, early childhood professionals and organizations and the community. A 501 (c)3 nonprofit agency.

Formed in 1990 on the recommendation of the landmark Cuyahoga County public-private initiative—the Child Day Care Planning Project—Starting Point works to:

• Link families with child care, early education and out-of-school time services
• Increase the supply of and improve access to child care, early education, literacy and out-of-school time programs
• Improve the quality of child care, early education and out-of-school time services
• Stimulate early education and out-of-school time alternatives
• Plan child care, early education and out-of-school initiatives
• Address child care, early education and out-of-school issues