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The review focuses on early childhood education (ECE) interventions (curricula, practices, and therapies) designed for use with 3- to 5-year-old children who are not yet in kindergarten and older children who are attending a preschool program. These interventions must take place in a school or center-based preschool setting, or if they take ...
tional Leadership (IEL) in Washington, DC. Dr. Mapp served as a consultant on family engagement to the United States Department of Educa. ion in the Ofice of Innovation and Improvement.Dr. Mapp joined HGSE in January of 2005 after serving for eighteen months as the Deputy Superinten-dent for Family and Community.
Place-based education is an umbrella term for many closely related fields of education: environmental education, experiential education, pedagogy of place, community-based education, and education for sustainability (Woodhouse & Knapp, 2000). The foundations of place-based education include Sobel’s work (1993, 1994) studying children’s ...
Guidance Advances President Biden’s Work to Invest in Early Learning. Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released guidance for how states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools can use Title I funds to expand access to high-quality preschool for three- and four-year olds in a range of quality settings including schools, Head Start, and community-based organizations.
Place-based education, sometimes called pedagogy of place, place-based learning, experiential education, community-based education, environmental education or more rarely, service learning, is an educational philosophy. The term was coined in the early 1990s by Laurie Lane-Zucker of The Orion Society and Dr. John Elder of Middlebury College.
The goal of this study was to describe characteristic stages in the development of children's understanding of place value. Sixty children (15 in each grade, 2 through 5) at 5 elementary schools in Butte County, California, were individually administered 18 tasks designed to reveal their thinking about place value and part-whole relations.
During the grand opening, Hart engaged with hundreds of children with a read-aloud of his very own book, Marcus Makes a Movie—the first in a highly illustrated middle-grade series published by ...