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Los padres son los primeros maestros de sus hijos!
Parents are their child's first teachers!
Come explore the new area of the Get Ready to Read! web site designed especially for Spanish-speaking parents!
Now Spanish-speaking parents have a one-stop location for fun literacy activities to try at home, a place to learn more about preschooler milestones in development and tips for how to talk with their child's teacher about questions concerning their child's development.
This area is a great resource for educators and day care providers, too! Locate resources to send home to Spanish-speaking parents to help build a strong home-school communication connection.
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The Transitioning to Kindergarten Toolkit includes great information for helping your child get ready to start kindergarten.
This "Learning and Thinking" excerpt from the toolkit offers parents important knowledge milestones to look for, as well as several skill-building activities to help encourage your child's learning and thinking skills.
By adding some of the suggested activities into your child's play and daily routine, you could positively impact your child's development of important learning and thinking skills!
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High quality professional development is a key component of the Recognition & Response system.
Five areas in which early childhood professional development specialists can provide training and technical assistance to teachers and other program staff are: recognition, response, parental engagement, transition to kindergarten and systemic change.
Read more about providing high quality professional development on the Recognition and Response web site today!
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Try these fun activities to help your students grow, learn and succeed!
 Turn the Olympics into a classroom learning experience! Reading Rockets' Maria Salvadore gives suggestions for how to make the most out of this exciting event.
Help your students practice math, vocabulary skills and even history dates with the Flash Card Maker on the Scholastic web site! Customize your cards to by choosing "math" or "words" as categories, follow the prompts, and then print!
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With increased public attention on the value of high-quality early childhood education, the pressure to perform has trickled down to our youngest students, and preschools are taking a closer look at their math programs and making adjustments that will prepare "little learners" for the challenges of elementary school.
Learn how parents and teachers can work together to make math a fun part of every preschooler's day in "Early Math Matters: Preparing Preschoolers to Succeed."
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The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices has published Building an Early Childhood Professional Development System, a brief coauthored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and based on the NAEYC state policy blueprint.
This brief identifies the initial steps governors can take to build a comprehensive early childhood professional development system for all program staff and personnel who work with young children.
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