CLASS Reliability Training, Upcoming TSG WebEx on Kindergarten Readiness, and Reignite Your Passion for Teaching!

Alaska Department of Education & Early Development

Early Learning

Attention

Alaska Pre-Elementary Grantees

CLASS Reliability Training to be Offered in March!

March 6 - 7, 2018

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Anchorage, AK

Registration deadline: March 1, 2018

For additional information, or registration please contact Donna Wade at ( 907) 265-3107 or [email protected]

Upcoming Teaching Strategies Gold WebEx

with Supanika Ackerman

This session will focus on answering what is "Kindergarten readiness" as well as exploring what different states have as their definitions. We will also take a look at Alaska's Kindergarten Entrance Assessment (Alaska Developmental Profile) and how that Fall entry data can be tracked longitudinally with Preschool spring exit data.

March 9, 2018

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Online Access Here

Via telephone: 1-855-244-8681 toll-free number (US/Canada)

Meeting number (access code): 286 698 595

Reminder: Southeast Alaska Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference

ARRR! Attachment, Responsive Relationships, Resilience

March 15 - 17, 2018

Centennial Hall

Juneau, AK

For additional information, or to register for this event please visit the seaaeyc registration page.

Teacher's Toolbox

The most wonderful job on the planet can wear anyone down over time. After a long winter, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley shares Five Ways to Reignite Your Passion for Teaching.

With spring just around the corner, how about some classroom reading fun about the great outdoors? PBS Parents shares a list of children's books about camping!

Preschool artwork proudly on display for Parent - Teacher Conferences in an Anchorage School District hallway.

Early Learning from Alaska and the Lower 48

Juneau aims an attempt at steering funding towards Pre-K programs. Read about it in the Juneau Empire.

Alaskan artist Michaela Goade, illustrator of Shanyaak'utlaax: Salmon Boy, wins best picture book of the year. Read about it as reported by the Juneau Empire.

Reliable, affordable, quality child care is a crucial part of a succeeding with life's responsibilities. Read about the positive impact that child care assistance has in this young woman's life.

February is National Career and Technical Education Month. Speaking at the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Professor Patricia Merritt briefed business owners on the value of continued education, and workforce development.

Fully funded through social impact bonds, or pay for success, Pre-K programs in Utah are showing highly positive results thanks to recognition by Wall Street as a good investment.