What is phonological awareness? Phonological awareness is playing with the sounds of language. Babies are musical before they can talk,...

Thinking about impacting change in early childhood education can feel like climbing a mountain with the wind against you. Sometimes...

As I study more about the process of evaluating early childhood programs I think about the National Association for the Education of...

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Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) preschool aged children should receive a free appropriate public special...

What does it mean to teach? The Merriam-Webster dictionary states one definition as “to cause to know something.” Educators do this, they...

Ohio’s early childhood education system (before kindergarten age) is overseen by two entities, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and...

A classroom environment consists of three components, the temporal aspect, which means the schedule and transitions throughout the day,...

My name is Karen Goulandris. I live in the Cleveland, Ohio area. I have worked in the field of early childhood education for forty-years....