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The Grand Plan: Planning Tips for Sharing Child Care Between Generations
Last updated: 03/24/2021
Many parents of children under five turn to grandparents for help with child care. While grandparents are often happy to help—our national survey of grandparents providing child...
6 ways to encourage and celebrate your child’s uniqueness
Last updated: 03/23/2021
All parents want to raise a happy childwho has positive self-esteem and a strong sense of self. A child who knows him or herself well and is proud of their uniqueness. All...
Intersectional Identities: Do Educators Empower or Oppress?
Last updated: 03/23/2021
Constantly asking me to identify across difference while my classmates were able to study people who shared their identities, these educators repressed my intellectual...
Why the U.S. is rethinking its approach to poverty
Last updated: 03/23/2021
At least one Saturday each month, Arlean Younger volunteers handing out boxes of donated food at church. Last time, she helped distribute provisions to more than 100 people. At...
Helping Families With Young Children Navigate Transitions in the Aftermath of Pandemic Restrictions
Last updated: 03/23/2021
Print The COVID-19 pandemic changed lives suddenly. Entire families dramatically changed their daily routines in order to meet quarantine specifications in their regions. When...
6 Rules How to Increase Ability at Successful Parenting
Last updated: 03/23/2021
As mothers more times than not we focus on how we are failing as a parent. We never end the day with a fist pump and in the air and say “yeah, I totally nailed that!”. The key...
Some Helpful Special Education Tools to Use with Your Students in Class
Last updated: 03/22/2021
Microsoft Educator Centerspecial education tools One of the key strengths of learning technologies and more specifically assistive technologies is that they help students with...
Remote Learning Erodes Students' Well-Being, CDC Parent Survey Suggests
Last updated: 03/22/2021
Parents whose children were learning in a remote or partly remote setting were more likely to report that their children spent diminishing time outside, in physical activity, or...
How Education Leaders Can Build Capacity for Digital Teaching and Learning
Last updated: 03/22/2021
As the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations accelerate, increasing numbers of students are returning to in-person classrooms. With the end of the global pandemic on the horizon,...
Air Hugs and ACEs: Trauma in Young Children During the Pandemic
Last updated: 03/22/2021
COVID-19 closed down a big part of children's lives when it forced many of our preschools to close. Besides being places where children learn, preschools provide children with...