Parental Involvement
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A Parent’s Guide to an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
An IFSP is a document that organizes a plan for young kids who need early intervention services. It is customized for each kid, as ... -
A Parent’s Guide to Developmental Milestones
A developmental milestone is a capacity that most kids achieve by a typical age. For instance, some kids may start walking as early as ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Cooperative Play
Cooperative play is defined as being an organized form of activity that involves the equal distribution of efforts and responsibilities among the kids to ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Associative Play
Associative play is the act of engaging in recreational activities in comparable ways to parallel play but with increased interaction between the participants, including ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Parallel Play
Parallel play is one of many essential stages of play that introduce kids to social interaction. With parallel play, kids aren’t really playing with ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Solitary Play
Solitary play is one of the initial play stages. Playing independently is a natural step in the development of a kid’s play behavior for ... -
Child DevelopmentCritical Thinking and CreativityEarly ChildhoodK-12Parental InvolvementPsychology and Education
How to Teach Kids with Interpersonal Intelligence
When we talk about “intelligence” most of the time, we think about kids and adults who spend a lot of time in lecture halls ... -
10 Disturbing Facts About Teen Dating Violence
According to Choose Respect (a national initiative), some dating patterns start early in life that cause violence throughout a person’s lifetime. This initiative aims ... -
Why Parent Number Talk is Critical to Early Learning
Number talk is the term used to describe the type of language and questioning used by adults to help young children acquire early math ... -
Should I Use Parental Involvement or Engagement?
Should I Use Parental Involvement or Engagement? I spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, and one of the biggest challenges that my colleagues ...
