Written by Erika Christakis, Early Childhood Educator and Author of The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need From Grownups. She has recently …
Kindergarten Teacher: Why Our Youngest Learners are Doomed Right Out of the Gate – and a Roadmap to Fix It
Phyllis Doerr, a kindergarten teacher from Newark, NJ, is greatly concerned about what is happening in kindergartens today, setting kids up for failure and learning …
NAEYC’s 2019 Public Policy Forum by Makai Kellogg
Makai Kellogg is an anti-bias educator in the DC area. She teaches at School for Friends, serves as the Equity and Diversity Coordinator, and leads the Parents of …
Speaking Out against New Massachusetts Regulations Which Target Male Teachers
by Craig Simpson I am a retired Early Childhood educator of more than 40 years much in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I served the …
Alfie Kohn Responds to New Study on Academic Kindergartens
A new study in American Educational Research Journal ostensibly found that teaching advanced academic content in kindergarten is beneficial in terms of academic achievement as …
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Columbus Who? A Dialogue on Discovery with Three-Year-Olds
by Makai Kellogg, M.A.T.Makai Kellogg is an anti-bias early childhood educator and Equity and Diversity Coordinator at School for Friends in Washington, DC. She completed …
Pre-k profit: readyNation hosts global business leaders in New York City this November
by Alison McDowell Alison McDowell is a parent of a public school student and a member of the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools. Her blog, …
Thinking of Thoreau by William Crain
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau. In recognition of the occasion, celebrations have highlighted the better-known aspects of …
Kindergarten experts
by James St. Clair Some years back I was asked to sit in on a meeting for a 3rd grader who had been a kindergarten …
Becoming an Early Childhood Advocate
by Rae PicaNote that this piece was originally posted on the NAEYC Hello website. It is re-published with permission from the author. I’ve found that …
The Lesson of Kindergarten
by James St. Clair Recently a young teacher of 5 year olds came to me to ask my advice. This teacher runs a very developmentally …
Across County Lines and Country Boarder. What my students have led me to believe.
This is a re-posting of a blog written in October, 2016. by Emily Kaplan I had a student once, a second grader, who loved the …
Kindergarten is not what it was!
by James St. Clair Something is missing in kindergarten. I know this because for the past year I’ve been substituting in the district where I …
A mom’s story about her son’s suspension from Pre-k
by Brandi Byers My son is a pre-kindergarten student at an inner-city public school in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a charming, energetic, precocious, 4.5 year …
ECE policy matters’ Susan Ochshorn discusses Betsy de Vos nomination and DEY’s latest report, “Teachers Speak Out”
THE POWER OF THEIR VOICES: EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS TALK SCHOOL REFORM (originally published on Jan. 19, 2017) A former preschool teacher carried the torch for …
My first grader doesn’t like school – and I don’t blame her!
by Tama Koss Caldarone Tama Koss Caldarone lives in Florida with her husband and two children, ages 6 and 4. She was a child abuse …