Early Care & Education Providers

A PLACE OF OUR OWN, a daily television series on PBS, is devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children. The series has a website with extensive resources that shares ways to help children develop cognitive, social, emotional, physical, language, and literacy skills. 

The series also responds to the needs and workplace realities of people who spend their days caring for children by including topics such as building partnerships with families, reducing stress, and completing paperwork.

A coordinated effort to encourage developmental and behavioral screening and support for children, families, and the providers who care for them.  It involved a partnership of several Federal offices including HHS’ Administration for Children and Families and Office of Special Education Programs at the Department of Education.  

Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! seeks to:  Celebrate milestones; Promote universal screening. Identify possible delays and challenges early; and Enhance developmental supports.

To do so, Birth to Five: Watch Me Thrive!  includes:

1. A compendium of research-based screening tools.

2. “User’s Guides” for multiple audiences.

3. An electronic package of resources for follow-up and support.

The DIVISION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD (DEC), a division of the Council for Exceptional Children, is for people who work with or on behalf of children with special needs, birth through age eight, and their families.

How teachers can help children from birth to 3 years to learn and grow in language, social-emotional, and physical development, and to practice and master basic concepts and skills in mathematics, science, and self-help.

Move to Learn is based on a simple concept: When kids get to move at school, schools get better.

Not only does student health improve, but academic performance improves, too. In fact, numerous scientific studies have confirmed that the more exercise a student gets, the better his or her grades are likely to be. And that’s not all. In several studies of Mississippi students, more fitness was associated with better behavior and less absenteeism.

Move to Learn is designed to help teachers raise student fitness levels and, in turn, raise student achievement.

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (NAEYC) works to improve the well-being of all young children, with a particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.

Read Today! is an integrated learning system that includes targeted coloring books and free interactive online lessons. It is our mission to provide language building blocks that simplify the task of learning to read in more than one language.

The SOUTHERN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION (SECA) is a regional organization bringing together educators, administrators, caregivers, and individuals working with/for families who are committed to promoting quality care and education for young children.