Documenting strategies for best practice is a powerful opportunity to elevate the wisdom from the field.
Documenting strategies for best practice is a powerful opportunity to elevate the wisdom from the field.
Resources
At Leading for Children, we are committed to creating free resources that can help you provide the highest quality early learning programs for young children and their families. We believe that documenting strategies for best practice is a powerful opportunity to continue to elevate the wisdom from the field by articulating and documenting strategies that work.
Videos
What does high-quality early learning practice look like in action? Leading for Children uses a coaching/video method to promote sustainable continuous quality improvement in early learning settings. We work with educators in multiple roles capturing exemplary illustrations of best practice in action. Our interview process empowers educators to “find their voice” as they describe what they do and why.
Relationships and Interactions MATTER
Watch and listen as Mississippi educators describe their practice around relationships and interactions.
The Environment MATTERS
Watch and listen as Mississippi educators describe their practice around the emotional and physical environment.
Learning Experiences MATTER
Watch and listen as Mississippi educators describe their practice around learning experiences.
Learning Network
Mississippi colleagues describe their experiences engaging in the Leading for Children Learning Network model.
Changing Lives and Promoting Success
Watch and listen as Mississippi educators describe the importance of knowing their “why”.
Leading for Children Innovative Ideas Award
The Leading for Children Innovative Ideas Award is our opportunity to recognize and highlight the great ideas of early childhood program directors and teachers. In addition to providing financial awards for these great ideas, we share them with the national early learning community in order to benefit other programs and their children.
Enhancing Early Childhood Program Quality: Wisdom From the Field
2019 Leading For Children Innovative Ideas Award winners
Leading for Children grounds our conversations about quality within a simple framework that we call the Coherent Path to Quality. The 2019 Innovative Ideas Award recognizes ideas being implemented in early learning programs across the country that focus on the three “lanes” of this path: Relationships & Interactions, Physical & Emotional Environment, and Learning Experiences.
Enhancing Early Childhood Program Quality: Wisdom From the Field
2018 Leading For Children Innovative Ideas Award winners
At Leading for Children, we know that early childhood educators are always finding new and creative ways to nurture and inspire children — our next generation of critical thinkers and leaders. Last year we introduced The Leading for Children Innovative Ideas Award to recognize ideas being implemented in early learning programs across the country. The focus for this year’s awards was on family engagement, literacy, and professional development. As you read the ideas included in this resource, we hope that you’ll be inspired to apply or adapt them to your program.
Enhancing Program Quality: Early Learning Directors Share Their Wisdom
2017 Leading For Children Innovative Ideas Award winners
In March of 2017 we introduced The Leading for Children Innovative Ideas Award as an opportunity to recognize great ideas being implemented by early learning program directors. These ideas support continuous quality improvement, and for this reason we want to share them with you. We received many outstanding ideas from directors around the country. We selected ideas for awards and hope you’ll feel inspired to try or adapt them or perhaps feel validated when something you read reflects practices you’re using successfully in your program.
Webinars
Be An Optimistic Leader for Children
This webinar was presented by Judy Jablon and Nichole Parks on May 16, 2019. It introduces the Leading for Children model of Optimistic Leadership. We begin with a definition of leadership in the broadest sense: how all educators must be the leaders children deserve. We discuss the Five Commitments of Optimistic Leadership and how you can practice them day by day to be even more effective at enhancing the quality of learning for every child.
The Coherent Path to Quality
This webinar was presented by Judy Jablon and Nichole Parks on November 14, 2019. We believe in order to truly have high quality care for all children, everyone within the ecosystem of early learning must share a well-articulated path to quality. We must begin to talk about quality in a way that is understandable, cohesive, and simple (“holdable”). At Leading for Children, we use a framework called The Coherent Path to Quality to engage educators of in all roles to think about three aspects of quality: relationships and interactions, emotional and physical environment, and learning experiences.
Five Commitments of Optimistic Leaders
The Five Commitments of Optimistic Leaders
This article, written by Judy Jablon, was published in the November/December 2018 issue of Exchange. It introduces the Leading for Children model of Optimistic Leadership.
