Early Childhood Development & Learning
Including Relationship-Based Care Practices in Infant-Toddler Care: Implications for Practice and...
Caring for Young Children While Sheltering in Place
Behavioral Assessment of Baby’s Emotional & Social Style (BABES) Toolkit: Intervention...
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Resourcing Supports for Young Multilingual Learners with Suspected Disabilities in California: Learning Collaborative Recommendations
In order to help educators best support young multilingual learners, WestEd launched a short-term, cross-sector Learning Collaborative to improve collaboration, build knowledge capacity, and increase awareness of best practices related to integrated ELD instruction. This report details lessons learned and offers recommendations for policymakers and education leaders.
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Supporting California’s Children Through a Whole Child Approach: A Field Guide for Creating Integrated, School-Based Systems of Care
This report offers guidance for funding and implementing one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving systems of care in California.
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Promoting Attendance
This REL West collection of resources helps schools and districts use data to design and carry out strategies to reduce chronic absence—from building community awareness to providing intensive one-on-one support for students and families.
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Joyful Reading, Writing, and Creative Expression with Young Children
These REL West resources share practical strategies for teachers to promote joyful learning experiences—through interactive reading, creative writing, and the arts—for children in preschool through the early elementary grades.
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The PITC Curriculum
The PITC Curriculum planning tools and strategies are designed to help family care providers and center-based teachers facilitate high-quality individualized learning and healthy development for children from 0-3.
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A Place for Me: Diverse, Engaging Environments for Infants and Toddlers
This recorded session features Peter Mangione, Director of PITC at WestEd, in conversation with Mary Jane Maguire-Fong, author, consultant, and Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at American River College, and Marcela Clark, Senior Manager at United Way Bright Beginnings.
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Everyone Belongs: Creating Authentically Inclusive and Equitable Infant and Toddler Care
This archived session is the second in a series of online conversations, Providing Culturally Responsive and Individualized Infant and Toddler Care. The session features Senta Greene, Founder and CEO of Full Circle Consulting Systems, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in the science of child and adolescent development, transformational leadership, community, and family engagement.
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The Power of Culturally Consistent Care in Home-Based Settings
This archived session is the first in a series of online conversations, Providing Culturally Responsive and Individualized Infant and Toddler Care. The session features Eva Marie Shivers, Executive Director and Founder of the Indigo Cultural Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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California Statewide Early Math Initiative in Local Communities: Building Educator Math Capacity
This report summarizes the findings across two case studies conducted as part of WestEd’s evaluation of the California Statewide Early Math Initiative.
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Growing Strong Learners in Galt Joint Union Elementary School District
This evaluation of the Growing Strong Learners initiative in the Central Valley’s Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (GJUESD) examines the program's objectives to improve kindergarten readiness and continuing academic achievement for the district’s English Learner students.
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Joyful Reading at School and at Home: A Storybook Reading Routine
This archived webinar offers research-based guidance to help PreK–1st-grade educators learn a routine for storybook reading, consider the culturally affirming aspects of stories, and hear ideas from elementary principals for creating school-to-home connections.
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Caring for Young Children While Sheltering in Place
Are you caring for a young child or children at your home? Need some help thinking of ideas for fun, engaging activities? This activity guide is for you! It provides you with quick access to tips and activities to use with children, aged birth to five, throughout the day.
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Language & Literacy Development in PreK-1st Grade: Words and More
December 9. This 90-minute webinar will address how teachers can build language- and vocabulary-rich classroom environments to support the language development of young students, with an emphasis on supporting students who are dual language learners.
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Reconsidering The Role of Play in Early Childhood: Towards Social Justice and Equity
This new resource, edited by Julie Nicholson, formerly Deputy Director of WestEd’s Center for Child & Family Studies and Associate Professor of Practice, Mills College, and Debora Wisneski, compiles current play research in early childhood and reexamines conventional perspectives.
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Behavioral Assessment of Baby’s Emotional & Social Style (BABES) Toolkit: Intervention Strategies for Developmental Guidance & Support
The BABES Toolkit assists early childhood professionals to identify, and to help families address, areas in which their infants and toddlers may be exhibiting challenging behavior.
$59.95
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