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• The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects
• Skill Levels Remain Issue in Pre-K Staffing
• Washington Post: The famous ‘word gap’ doesn’t hurt only the young. It affects many educators, too.
• Children's Cabinet
• Multilingual Paraprofessionals - An Untapped Resource
• Job-Embedded Professional Learning Essential to Improving Teaching and Learning in Early Education
• Reimagining Instructional Leadership and Organizational Conditions for Improvement: Applied Research Transforming Early Education
• Seal of Biliteracy
• Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
• New Head Start Performance Standards (fall 2016)
• The Early Childhood Workforce Index
• Companion Report: 50-State Comparison: K-3 Quality
• 50-State Comparison: K-3 Quality
• Early Childhood Career Pathways
• Early Educator Central
• Early Learning Career Pathways Initiative: Credentialing in the Early Care and Education Field
• Report: Early Childhood Work Undervalued
• High-Quality Early Learning Settings Depend on a High-Quality Workforce
• Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education: A Review of the Literature
• Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom
• Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards (IELDS) Tools for Teachers Kit
• Achieving Compensation Parity: Illinois Goal for the Field of Early Childhood Care and Education - SUMMARY
• Town Square IL
• Illinois Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
• Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8, Part 6
• Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8, Part 5
• The secret sauce: the right way to teach the teachers
• Lead Learn Excel Library
• Transforming the Workforce for Chidren Birth Through Age 8, Part 4
• Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8, Part 3
• Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8, Webinar 2
• ExcleRate Illinois
• Early Childhood Center of Professional Development Calendar
• Early Intervention Training Program
• EC Teacher Preparation Standards (compiled by GRA at UIUC)
• First Five Years Fund
• Transforming the Workforce Birth through Age 8. Recorded webinar and discussion on Chapters 1 and 2
• Infant and Toddler Messaging Guide
• Edutopia - what works in education
• Defending the Early Years
• Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University
• Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
• The 25 college majors that will lead to the lowest-paying jobs
• CEC/DEC Recommended Practices in Early Intervention Early Childhood Special Education
• Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation
• National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
• NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct - Supplement for Adult Educators
• Check this out! ec.thecenterweb.org
• TED TALKS "THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR PRESCHOOL"
• TEACH TRAIN LOVE
• Shared Services: Powerful Alliances for ECE Program Sustainability and Resource Efficiency
• EARLY CHILDHOOD INVESTIGATION WEBINARS
• EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY
• MANUAL - ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
• ChicagoNow - Where Chicago Blogs
• EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH & PRACTICE
• FRED ROGERS CENTER For Early Learning and Children’s Media
• JOHNS HOPKINS School of Education New Horizons for Learning
• PBS TEACHERLINE
• Earlychildhood News
• ILLINOIS EARLY LEARNING GUIDELINES A Foundation for Learning POWER POINT PRESENTATION
• HOW EFFECTIVE SUPERVISORS GUIDE TEACHERS BY GIVING FEEDBACK WITH EASE
• NEEYC + NACCRRA Early Childhood Education Professional Development: Training and Technical Assistance Glossary
• Education Writers Association (EWA)
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• National Education Association
• NAEYC 2014 Communication Webinar Series