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As you support children's learning and school success,
As you support children's learning and school success,
We're here for YOU!
You are laying the groundwork for lifelong learning and development through intentional environments, planned experiences, and meaningful interactions.
We are pleased to partner with you as you help children learn and grow.
Child Development and Early Learning Standards
Child Development and Early Learning Standards
Arkansas’s Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS) highlight shared expectations of what children typically know, understand, and are able to do at different ages of early childhood. We offer Early Learning Standards Basics and incorporate the CDELS tool into many of our professional development offerings.
Curriculum Support
Curriculum Support
Children rely on programs to choose a curriculum that is engaging and appropriately challenging. We offer individualized consultation and professional development for new programs that are choosing curriculum and for existing programs that are interested in changing or supplementing their curriculum.
Continuous Quality Improvement
Continuous Quality Improvement
We support your program’s Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) mindset with workshops and consultations. These focus on using reports to help you make plans that align with your program’s unique goals.
Child Observation and Assessment
Child Observation and Assessment
Child observation and assessment provide important insights into learning and development. When our observations guide our daily practices, we can feel confident that we’re meeting children’s needs and helping them learn and grow. We’re here to support your observation and assessment goals.
Work Sampling and OUNCE introduction and refresher trainings
Individualized Work Sampling and OUNCE classroom consultation
Classroom-Based Assessment series
Professional Learning Experiences
Professional Learning Experiences
Our favorite professional learning experiences are the ones you tell us you turn to for interesting new ideas! We offer a wide array of sessions, including topics such as:
Using teacher-child interactions to extend learning
Designing natural outdoor spaces
Planning interesting food experiences for children
Ideas to support active physical play
Using open-ended play materials with children
Using books to support development and learning
Online courses
Online courses
Online courses, such as Responsive Routines, Powerful Play, and the Youth Development Institute, provide knowledge and tips to support foundation-level staff as they carry out daily routines and learning experiences.
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Did you know that A-State Childhood Services offers free, helpful technical assistance (TA)? One-on-one consultation can offer practical tips and help you think in new ways about the important work you do. Among the many TA topics available are:
Interacting with children to build relationships and support learning
Integrating literacy and math experiences throughout the day
Room arrangement and learning centers
Schedules and transitions
Business practices
After a math play event, an administrator shared, “…for me what hit home was…not just what we do - it’s how we do it, when we do it, why we do it. It’s the tone and the climate. I’ve been going in every day to sit with my new teachers to model and help them understand how it feels to be positive and playful with children.”
A school-based ABC administrator commented that curriculum coaching “helped keep teachers on track and we credit coaching with the high level of fidelity we’re seeing.”
Coaching and technical assistance are making a difference in the quality of Arkansas early education programs.
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