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
Teachers COVID-19 Stay-at-Home
- Supporting Multilingual Families of Preschoolers during Remote Learning
- Implementing the ISBE Remote Learning Recommendations as PFA and PFAE Educators
- Frequently Asked Questions for Special Education During Remote Learning
- Implementing the ISBE Remote Learning Recommendations as PFA and PFAE Educators
- COVID-19 Related LearnERS Modules
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
- Red Light! Green Light! Supporting School Readiness through Physical Activities
- Fostering Gross Motor Development in the Preschool Aged Child
- Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development
- Red light! Green light! Supporting School Readiness Skills through Physical Activities
- Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Classroom
Diverse Learners
- Project LCExcel
- Let's Talk about Language: Language-focused Approaches to Engaging with Families of Multilingual Children
- Let's Talk about Language: Language-focused Approaches to Engaging with Families of Multilingual Children
- Supporting Multilingual Families of Preschoolers during Remote Learning
- Understanding How Young Children Learn Multiple Languages
Family & Community Engagement
- Family Engagement (Engaging and Empowering Families as Early Learning Stakeholders)
- Pre/K – K Planning Now for a Return to School: Strategies for Student Resilience within a Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Framework (Tiers 2 and 3)
- Pre/K – K Planning Now for a Return to School: Building Student Resilience to Trauma within a Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Framework (Tier 1 – Foundation)
- Early Childhood Care & Education Transition to Kindergarten
- Early Childhood Collaborations: Delivering on the Promise of "Whole Community"
Social/Emotional Development
- Ideas, Strategies, and Resources for Linking Literacy and Social Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
- Everybody Wins - Social Problem Solving in Preschool
- Serious Fun: How Guided Play Extends Children's Learning
- Intervention Techniques for Working with Trauma-impacted Young Children: Strategies for the Classroom and Other Settings
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
View all STEAM - Technology resourcesSTEAM - Arts
- 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