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
- Archived Webinars
- Tools
- Forms
Families COVID-19 Stay-at-Home
- Guidance for COVID-19
- Covid19 Family Guidebook: Doing it at home Coping skills and Activities
- Preschool During the Pandemic: Early Childhood Education in Extraordinary Times
- Strategies to Virtually Support and Engage Families of Young Children during COVID-19 (and Beyond)
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Resources for Patients
Teachers COVID-19 Stay-at-Home
- Guidance for COVID-19
- Covid-19 Resources for Teachers and Staff: For Teachers, Substitute Teachers, and Paraprofessionals
- Preschool During the Pandemic: Early Childhood Education in Extraordinary Times
- Strategies to Virtually Support and Engage Families of Young Children during COVID-19 (and Beyond)
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public
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
- Observation and Assessment (We know we are teaching…Are the students learning?)
- 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
Curriculum
- Fostering Gross Motor Development in the Preschool Aged Child
- Red Light! Green Light! Supporting School Readiness Skills through Physical Activities
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice (Reaching and Teaching Students Where They Are)
- Anti-bias Literacy Approach
- Learning Standards (For Best Results...Follow Instructions
Professional Knowledge
- Simple Interactions
- High Quality Feedback Builds Children’s Learning in a Powerful Interaction® (W6)
- Linking the New to the Familiar in a Powerful Interaction® (W5)
- Creating and Implementing an Early Childhood Multi-Tiered System of Supports Evidenced Based Framework (Working Smarter Not Harder)
- Defining an Early Childhood Multi-Tiered System of Supports Framework (Putting It All Together)
Social/Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
- Supporting Young ELs’ Social Emotional Development in Culturally Appropriate Ways
- Everybody Wins- Social Problem Solving in Preschool
- Children's Experiences of Loss and Grief During a Pandemic
- Ideas, Strategies, and Resources for Linking Literacy and Social Emotional Development
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
- 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
STEAM - Technology
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- 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
- Welcome to STEAM: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics in Early Childhood Education
- Early Learning Standards in Action Young Children Exploring Motion
STEAM - Mathematics
- 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
- Early Math Matters
- Understanding the Mathematics Found in Exploration, Investigation and Play