Early Childhood Education
Support your school's early childhood education program through workshops, products, resources, consultations, and direct collaboration.
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Conference
Early Childhood Conference
Calling all early childhood leaders, educators, and practitioners to come together to connect, collaborate and learn together for two days of exciting sessions.
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Service
Texas Reading Academies
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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Coaching
Early Childhood Instructional Coaching Series
Enhance early childhood education through personalized instructional coaching that aligns with HB 3's Pre-K requirements.
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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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Resource
Materials Labels (Bilingual)
This includes printable labels that help early childhood teachers organize classroom materials in a way that supports independence, literacy development, and classroom routines.
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Sample Visual Daily Schedule (Bilingual)
This visual daily schedule uses pictures to help young children understand and follow the flow of their day, supporting the development of skills related to independence, routine, and transitions, all in alignment with the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines.
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Resource
Construction “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can plan, build, and solve problems using blocks and other materials to create structures and spaces.
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Pretend & Learn “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can use imagination, role-play, and everyday materials to act out real-world experiences and build social skills.
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Creativity “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can use different materials to express themselves through art and build fine motor and creative thinking skills.
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Library “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can enjoy books, tell stories, and build language skills while exploring the world through reading.
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Math “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can explore numbers, patterns, shapes, and measurement through hands-on, playful math activities.
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Resource
Writing “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on how they can draw, scribble, and experiment with letters to express their thoughts and develop early writing skills.
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Science “I Can” Center Book (Bilingual)
This book guides children with ideas on what they can explore, observe, and ask questions about the world around them, through hands-on science investigations.
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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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Video
Early Childhood Best Practices Video Series
Early childhood educators demonstrate how to align their classroom environments and teaching to best practices in this series.
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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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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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Video
Making Learning and Teaching Fun! with Dr. Jean
Join Dr. Jean Feldman as she explores how to make learning and teaching fun for your young students!
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Video
The Power of Music and Relationships
Dr. Anne Meeker Watson specializes in helping young children through music therapy and explores the power of music in building relationships with young students.
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Changing Behavior in Preschool Classrooms
Dr. Susan Catlett explores the functions of behavior in a preschool classroom and how you can change behavior for the better.
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Article
Classroom Setup During COVID-19: Using Picture Visuals
Hi there, friends. In the previous blog about setting up your classroom during Covid-19, we explored how to use floor tape to increase student understanding of visual boundaries and expectations. Remember, visual supports, which include visual boundaries, visual cues, and visual schedules, are evidence-based practices that we should be using ALL the time, not just […]
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Early Childhood Outcomes and Prekindergarten Guidelines Alignment (Spiral-Bound)
The 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 developmental continuum of skills to the prekindergarten guidelines to help educators design appropriate, individualized goals and interventions for the youngest learners who are developmentally functioning below four-year-old expectations. This includes students with disabilities, students learning English as a second language, and any child who may be at risk educationally. The developmental continuum includes foundational skills that will lead to expected three-year-old and four-year-old skills, which can be used to provide a direct link to the prekindergarten guidelines and function as a starting point for students who are furthest from age-appropriate skill levels when they enter Early Childhood Special Education Programs. 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, 180 pages Early Childhood Outcomes and Prekindergarten Guidelines Alignment was produced by Region 13 through a TEA grant and has been revised and maintained by Region 13 to reflect the 2015 Prekindergarten Guidelines.
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Product
Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (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, 87 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.
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