Children's Book Week, Celebrate with us!
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Safe Infant Sleep: Click for Resources
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Safe to SleepĀ® Campaign,
Dept of Health and Human Services
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Support the Importance of Early Childhood! |
Join Advocacy Day May 10th! |
Click the flyer for details on how you can get involved! |
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Growing Up with more than One Language |
Recent research underscores the importance of supporting both the language(s) of home and the language of school (usually English) for young children who are growing up with multiple languages. Here are two tip sheets with ideas for how to support the language development of these young children:
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Family & Large Family Child Care Providers! |
Don't delay, training on the new regulations is only available until the end of this month!
Click here
for information on training to learn more!
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Kids say the darndest things! |
The winner of our February Raffle Contest is
Project Village,
Indian River School District! We asked for ways to successfully engage families and here's what they had to say:
Project Village (ECAP) in Selbyville partners with the Southern Delaware School of the Arts for their Family Math and Science Night. Each grade Pre-k through 8th grade has a table with math games as well as a display of what their children learned in science. This is a fun event because preschool children and their families feel connected with the K-8 schools. They get to interact and meet kindergarten children and teachers.
To enter to win a collection of children's books in this month's raffle contest
send us responses from some of the children in your program to either of the two questions:
- What's your favorite story book to read and why?
- Who is your favorite super hero or book character and why?
Be sure to include the child's first name and age with the entry. Good luck!
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Spring Resource Fairs: Connect with Agencies, Services and Supports for You! |
Free to all licensed child care providers! |
Click to enlarge the flyers:
Free Resource Fairs offer connections with:
- Business and Administration: Payroll services, employee management, banking and finance information and resources
- Qualifications and Professional Development: DIEEC PD specialists offering support with individual and facility PD planning, T.E.A.C.H. and Career Advisement (DAEYC and Del First)
- Family and Community Partnerships: Resources to support families, library resources, community agencies offering services to support your program
- Learning Environment & Curriculum: Ways to address challenging behavior, curriculum and assessment support, table topics on creating multi-age environments, health, play and more!
Register today, or call 302-831-7354! Raffle prizes, give-aways, free resources and more!
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Spring Assessment Series!
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The
DIEEC PD Department is providing
a new series of assessment training in each county:
- Advanced Assessment for Administrators: Data Driven Decision Making
- Advanced Assessment for Teachers: Purposeful Planning
- Child Assessment for Administrators: Polishing the Lens
- Child Assessment for Teachers: The Power of Practice
Check the training schedule for
Kent,
New Castle and
Sussex Counties and register today!
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Program Spotlight Tadpole Academy |
Building a Team and Creating a Community |
Our January Raffle winner,
Tadpole Academy responded to the question '
what are your program resolutions for 2017'? They responded:
- Creating a renewed and shared vision for our team of what quality early childhood education looks like,
- Improving our quarterly staff in-service to make the trainings/topics more relevant and meaningful to our teachers, and
- Spending more time in the classrooms working 1-on-1 with our teachers.
Crystal and Liz (pictured) shared that creating a vision together strengthened their staff as a team and gave the team ownership of their program goals. The program has signed up to participate in Foundations of Curriculum series offered by DIEEC PD to continue towards a shared vision and shared goals.
They select topics for their quarterly in-service meetings based on conversations during staff meetings and observations in the classrooms. They also meet one on one with each teacher to learn about their individual professional goals and discuss classroom observations to develop...click here to continue.
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Child Care Daily: News You Can Use Early Childhood Resources Galore!
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Library Learning Crates & The Resource Room
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The
New Castle County Libraries have expanded their early learning literacy crates to include
six crates with topics/materials in Spanish. But they aren't just for New Castle, anyone who has a library card can use the online
library catalog to order available materials that will be sent to the library closest to your program. Topics in English include science, literacy, math, cooking, colors, etc. Topics available in Spanish include alphabet, history, animals, and more. These early learning literacy crates provide fresh early childhood materials for your program, at no cost to you!
In the city of Wilmington, located at Warner Elementary School is the Resource Room.
The Resource Room offers child care providers:
- Professional development
- A lending library that includes resources, teaching tools and toys
- TECE 1 & 2 scholarships
- Mentoring
- Career advisement and more!
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Capacity Grant: Request by April 10th!!! |
Funding for Programs in Delaware Stars |
The Capacity Grant, managed by Children & Families First, is intended to provide resources to build the quality of early learning programs. The next deadline to submit an application for a Capacity Grant is April 10, 2017.
Supplemental funding will also be available to
expand or enhance the nutritional and/or physical activity for children in early learning programs.
This supplemental funding is provided in collaboration with the Division of Public Health. Contact the Capacity Grant Program Manager, Andrea Prettyman by email or call 302-389-7268.
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