Resources
Resources include websites, videos, articles/books, online learning options, tools/toolkits and forms that are associated with the professional learning topics covered in our workshops and webinars.
The resources are organized by these topics:
- Administration & Leadership
- Assessment
- Curriculum
- Diverse Learners
- Family & Community Engagement
- Language Arts/Literacy
- Professional Knowledge
- Social/Emotional Development
- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics)
Symbols are used to identify the type of resource (refer to the key). Resources can be searched by selecting a topic or by using the keyword search function.
The resources that were previously on the Higher Education Resources Online website (HERO) have been saved for use by all early childhood educators.
Latest Resources
Key
- Websites
- Videos
- Article/Books
- Recorded Webinars
- Tools
- Forms
Administration & Leadership
- Leadership Competency - Build Professional Capacity Across the Learning Community
- Leadership Competency - Make Your School a Hub of Pre-K-3 Learning for Families and Communities
- Leadership Competency - Use Multiple Measures of Assessment to Guide Growth in Student Learning
- Leadership Competency - Embrace the Pre-K-3 Learning Continuum
- Leadership Competency - Provide Personalized Blended Learning Environments
Assessment
- Focused Observations: Practical Suggestions for Observing and Documenting Children's Learning and Progress - Part 1
- Focused Observations: Practical Suggestions for Observing and Documenting Children's Learning and Progress - Part 2
- Maximizing Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching for Evaluating Early Childhood Teachers and Accelerating Teaching Practice - Part 2
- Maximizing Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching for Evaluating Early Childhood Teachers and Accelerating Teaching Practice - Part 1
- Early Learning Standards and Staff Development: Best Practices in the Face of Change
Curriculum
- Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Classroom
- Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards 2013 (IELDS) revised
- Illinois Early Learning Project
- Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards (IELDS) - Part 2
- Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards (IELDS) - Part 1
Diverse Learners
- Understanding How Young Children Learn Multiple Languages
- PK-3 TeachLeadGrow: A Video-Based Resource for Early Childhood Teachers
- Soyul & Teacher Yvette… Adventures in Preschool Second Language Acquisition
- The Young Dual Language Learner: 20 Short Videos
- PK-3 TeachLeadGrow: A Video-Based Resource for Early Childhood Teachers
Family & Community Engagement
- The Road to Kindergarten...Life beyond Early Childhood Education and Care Programs
- Mission Nutrition: Decoding MyPlate for Families
- Supporting Our Youngest Learners Experiencing Homelessness
- Supporting Families with Young Children Experiencing Homelessness
- Keep them coming: The road from enrollment to attendance
Social/Emotional Development
- Recognizing Trauma & Its Impact on Young Children: Implications for Early Childhood Teacher Educators
- Supporting Young ELs' Social Emotional Development in Culturally Appropriate Ways
- Implementing Early Childhood Multi-tiered System of Supports Best Practices
- Defining Early Childhood a Multi-tiered System of Supports Framework
- Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
STEAM - Science/Engineering
- Engineering and Physics - It's Child's Play!
- Building Mathematical Connections & Relationships with Literature and Science that Promote School Readiness
- Welcome to STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
- Hug a Tree: And Other Things to Do Outdoors with Young Children
- Everybody has a body
STEAM - Technology
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- Messes, Music, and Make-Believe: The Illinois Early Learning Development Standards through the Arts
- Welcome to STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
- Messes, Music, and Make-Believe: The Illinois Early Learning Development Standards through the Arts
- Early Learning Standards in Action Young Children Exploring Motion
STEAM - Mathematics
- Early Math Matters
- Building Mathematical Connections & Relationships with Literature and Science that Promote School Readiness
- Building Mathematical Connections & Relationships that Promote School Readiness
- Understanding the Mathematics Found in Exploration, Investigation and Play
- Welcome to STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics in Early Childhood Education