Every early childhood educator is a vital support for Pennsylvania families, children and employers. Your participation in the OCDEL 2022 Market Rate Survey provides important information that can impact future child care related programming and policy decisions, ​including Child Care Works rate setting. Don't be the missing piece of the 2022 Market Rate Survey!

Step 1) Ponder Check-in with yourself about your hunger before you eat - you may actually be thirsty, bored or stressed. Step 2) Appraise Take a moment to take it in. How does it smell? Do you really want it? Is it more than you need?

Want to develop a partnership with parents/families? Invite them into their child's learning! It's a new school/program year! Are you ready to take it on? While we know you have many things on your to-do list, we hope that this four-episode series provides some inspiration and motivation around establishing and continually nurturing the Teacher-Parent Partnership.

As a boy of six-years-old, I objected to the term "babysitter." For one thing, I wasn't a baby, and for another, the word co...

We know that the ability of educators to draw on their expertise and engage children in conversations about accurate history, human diversity, and unequal opportunity is under threat all over the country. How do we bring people together to build campaigns supporting healthy racial learning in schools?

Enjoy browsing the following delicious recipes, cookbooks, and recipe booklets, many developed by SNAP-Ed programs.

A discussion about our "space bubbles" and how they vary depending on individual preferences, cultural norms, and context. What role do adults play in shaping children's understanding of peri-personal space?

The PA Traffic Injury Prevention Project is a program of the PA AAP and funded through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Children who are 6 months old and older can now get the COVID-19 vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that children 6 months of age and older get vaccinated. Download the PDF This resource is also available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Somali, and Vietnamese (see below).

Do you know an individual or organization that displays outstanding commitment to the out-of-school time field? PSAYDN's Afterschool Champions seeks to acknowledge professionals, youth and organizations leading the way with their work surrounding policy and advocacy, sustainability and quality. Winners will be recognized during the PSAYDN 2022 EMPOWER Out-of-School Time Conference on Thursday, Dec.

The ECE Summit will be a fully Virtual Experience again this year, bringing you the same great content in a robust and engaging way. Each day will feature a Keynote session and four tracks of workshop sessions.

Our resilience - understand it and fostering it - has never been more important. This is true for each and every one of us and is critical for the children and families we serve. The Devereux Center for Resilient Children invites all adults who support children and families to join us for a resilience-building journey.

In this compelling webinar, author and professor Mary Benson McMullen, Ph.D., will offer insights about the importance of happiness and well-being in high quality infant-toddler care and education (ITCE) and how you may support this in your programs. You will learn key ideas from Mary's two recent books, On Being [...]