Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Child Care and Early Childhood Education Resources

Feb 04, 2003

Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs offers strategies for modifying curriculum, creating learning opportunities, and using child-focused instructional strategies. $30. RedLeaf Press, 450 N Syndicate, Ste 5, Saint Paul, MN 55104; (800) 423-8309; summary online at http://www.redleafpress.org/bookstore/product.asp?
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[last updated 2-1-03]

Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States, a study in the Fall/Winter 2002 issue of Contexts, finds that funding for child care in the US is fragmentary, while in France child care is publicly funded as early education for all children. Summary online at http://www.asanet.org/media/childcare.html
[last updated 1-13-03]

Outdoor Play Every Day discusses age-appropriate outdoor experiences for young children, with adaptations for children with special needs. Includes activity ideas, guidelines for safe, accessible playgrounds, and basic equipment lists. $28. RedLeaf Press, 450 N Syndicate, Ste 5, Saint Paul, MN 55104; (800) 423-8309; summary online at http://www.redleafpress.org/bookstore/product.asp?
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[last updated 1-13-03]

Pathways Mapping Initiative, from the Annie E Casey Foundation, compiles information about "what works" in community efforts to ensure that all children are ready for school. Online at http://www.aecf.org/pathways
[last updated 1-13-03]

Roots for Change, from the Early Childhood Equity Alliance, offers information and resources for diversity, anti-bias, and social justice work in early childhood education. In English and Spanish. Online at http://www.rootsforchange.net
[last updated 1-13-03]

* School Readiness Technical Assistance compiles online resources about school readiness in California. Topics include family support, school capacity and readiness, collaboration, financing, and children with special needs. Resources available include Making the Path: A Guidebook to Collaboration for School Readiness, from the Center for Collaborative Planning. Online at http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/programs/readiness
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* Time To Care; Designing Child Care To Promote Education, Support Families and Build Communities describes problems in the US child care system and solutions that would improve quality and availability of child care and afterschool care through program and community supports. $19. By Joan Lombardi, available from Temple University Press, 800-621-2736; summary online at http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/lombardi_reg.html
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* Working for Quality Child Care offers tools for child care teachers on professional relationships, professional growth, and working with parents. $30. Trainer?’s Guide, $15. RedLeaf Press, 450 N Syndicate, Ste 5, Saint Paul, MN 55104; (800) 423-8309; summary online at http://www.redleafpress.org/bookstore/product.asp?
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[last updated 2-1-03]