Bang! Squish! Leap! Supporting the A in STEAM with Infants and Toddlers
Learn how to integrate the arts into activities that support children's school readiness across the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) domains.
Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning
Infant/Toddler Effective Practice Series
These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting infants' and toddlers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.
Implementing Research-Based Curriculum and Teaching Practices
Explore these 15-minute In-service Suites, a professional development resource for busy staff. Find ways to implement curriculum and teaching practices for children birth to age 5 in various learning domains.
STEAM
Learn how children birth to 5 naturally engage in inquiry, reasoning, and problem-solving every day. Explore ways to help develop children’s science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) skills.
Connecting Research to Practice: Tips for Working with Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families
This series of briefs provides an accessible and usable overview of research on topics related to early learning and child development. They also include resources for families.
Preschool Teaching Practices
Use the resources on this page to strengthen preschool teaching practices.
Resources on CLASS Pre-K®
Explore the resources on this page, which may be useful to Head Start directors, education managers, coaches, teachers, and others who work with preschoolers.
Infant/Toddler Teaching Practices
Use the resources on this page to strengthen infant and toddler teaching practices
Supporting Children's Early Brain Development
In this webinar, explore how children’s back-and-forth interactions during everyday experiences and routines build the brain. Also, find out how these interactions can set the stage for a lifetime of learning.
Responsive Caregiving as an Effective Practice to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development
Explore the importance of early relationships in a child’s life and research-based teaching strategies that support them.