Supporting school readiness and success for African American boys requires thoughtful commitment and focus to offer high-quality learning environments. The ongoing professional development of education staff — like coaches, education managers, and supervisors — is key to this effort. Education staff can use these strategy guides for their own self-directed learning or leaders can support communities of practice for learning together.
This resource offers planning and implementation guidance for the six essential strategies:
- Build relationships
- Communicate high expectations for learning
- Promote social and emotional development
- Create learning environments with a focus on play and active learning, including literacy
- Implement developmentally appropriate curriculum and instruction
- Strengthen home-program partnerships
Each section:
- Describes a strategy
- Discusses why the strategy matters
- Asks the reader to reflect on their own practice
- Names practices that promote the strategy
- Gives an opportunity to plan to use a strategy
- Lists resources to deepen your learning
- Includes alignments to the:
Explore one strategy at a time, or in bundles. Making time to think about each strategy and to plan for how you’d like to do it is well worth the effort.
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Resource Type: Article
National Centers: Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning
Audience: Teachers and Caregivers
Last Updated: December 2, 2022