Responsive Caregiving as an Effective Practice to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development
Explore the importance of early relationships in a child’s life and research-based teaching strategies that support them.
High Quality Inclusion for Children with Disabilities or Suspected Delays Series
This webinar series focuses on aspects of inclusion and services to children with disabilities. Experts draw on current evidence to cover topics such as assessment, screening, evidence-best practices that support individualization, and partnering with parents.
News You Can Use: Foundations of School Readiness: Social Emotional Development
This News You Can Use discusses the importance of relationships and how they support infants' and toddlers' emerging social and emotional development.
Emotional Literacy
Learn teaching practices to help children develop a varied emotional vocabulary and identify feelings in themselves and others. Practice talking with families about children's emotional literacy.
Digging Deeper: Exploring the Effective Practice Guides as a Resource for Coaches
Discover how the Effective Practice Guide: Social and Emotional Development can support your practice-based coaching efforts. The guide highlights teaching practices that promote the social and emotional development of children birth to 5.
Let's Talk About Music
Through music, children experience and explore concepts that help them with building capacities that range from social-emotional expression to physical development. Caregivers, parents, families and others who engage with very young children will learn the importance of adapting songs to fit the age and development of the children in their care. This podcast features interviews and resources drawn from the Office of Head Start’s Little Voices for Healthy Choices Initiative.
Choose and Use Guide for Finding Social-Emotional Programs for Parents
Head Start and Early Head Start programs are increasingly involved in efforts to assist adult family members in gaining parenting skills that can both promote positive social-emotional development and prevent challenging behaviors. In recent years, a number of formal parenting curricula have been developed and researched. We have identified five such programs with promising effects.
Sense of Identity and Belonging
The Sense of Identity and Belonging sub-domain Effective Practice Guide includes four sections of teaching practices: Know, See, Do, and Improve. Practices for home visitors are included.
Emotional Functioning
The Effective Practice Guide for the Emotional Functioning sub-domain includes four sections of teaching practices: Know, See, Do, and Improve. Practices for home visitors are included.
Relationships with Other Children
The Relationships with Other Children sub-domain Effective Practice Guide includes four sections of teaching practices: Know, See, Do, and Improve. Practices for home visitors are included.