Early Childhood Education

Support your school's early childhood education program through workshops, products, resources, consultations, and direct collaboration.

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  • Service

    Texas Reading Academies

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    $3,000

    House Bill 3 requires that all K-3 teachers and administrators complete the TXRA training within 3 years: 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023.

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  • Workshop

    Early Childhood Literacy for Administrators: Navigating and Implementing Effective Practices

    Join us for a dynamic workshop designed specifically for administrators like you. Together, we will dive into TEA requirements and recommendations and explore age-appropriate teaching practices and supportive environments that foster pre-literacy skills. Throu

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  • Workshop

    Early Literacy Essentials: Transforming Engagement into Early Literacy Success

    Explore the precursor skills that we can be teaching now to help our youngest students become readers later. As educators, it is crucial to understand the development of emergent literacy and how to use strategies for building foundational skills in young read

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  • Resource

    Early Childhood Model Classroom

    A classroom's floor plan, or arrangement, refers to the physical layout of seating, tables, and materials. This arrangement is crucial for creating an environment that supports effective instruction and student growth.

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  • Resource

    Early Childhood Outcomes and Prekindergarten Guidelines Alignment

    Early Childhood Outcomes and Prekindergarten Guidelines Alignment helps design preschool instruction to align with each of the Texas Education Agency’s prekindergarten guidelines to one or more of the three early childhood outcomes.This document connects the d

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  • Preview of the blue and white front cover of the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines Spanish (Spiral-Bound) book. The front cover features children playing with blocks, educational toys, and gardening.

    Product

    Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines - Spanish (Spiral-Bound)

    Use Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines to design meaningful and purposeful experiences for young children to provide them a foundation that guides their growth in all aspects of development. The Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines are based on current knowledge of theory and scientific research about how children develop and learn. The guidelines: Reflect the growing consensus among early childhood professional organizations that a greater emphasis be placed on young children’s conceptual learning, acquisition of basic skills and participation in meaningful, relevant learning experiences. Provide professional development as the key to high-quality prekindergarten programs, the involvement of families for better school readiness of children, strategies for bilingual instruction, considerations for children with special needs and disabilities, and methods for monitoring children’s progress. Are intended to be useful to a broad audience, including school districts, Head Start programs, child care providers, and, most importantly, children’s families. Provide a means to align prekindergarten programs with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The print edition of this document is offered here as a service to our customers at no profit to ESC Region 13 - the purchase price covers professional color printing and binding. A PDF version of this document can be downloaded free from TEA’s website. ESF Alignment Supports Lever 4.1 - Daily use of high-quality instructional materials aligned to instructional planning calendars and interim and formative assessments Spiral-bound, 140 pages Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines was written by TEA and printed and bound by Education Service Center Region 13.

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Supporting Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education is your student's first connection between home and learning at school. It sets students on their path to being part of a learning community through the development of social-emotional skills and foundational concepts. Early Childhood Education cultivates a partnership between school and family to help ensure the success of every student. That's why continuous support and growth through professional development for early childhood educators is so important.

Our early childhood specialists provide workshops, instructional coaching, and resources to districts, Head Start organizations, and childcare centers. This professional development for early childhood educators helps build high-quality early childhood programs that develop school-ready students.

Need to get in touch?

Contact a member of our team for more information.

earlychildhood@esc13.txed.net