• Nurturing Language: Viewing Children as Conversational Partners
    | Ecosystem Element 4

    Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

    Session Description:  This element focuses on the support of children’s language development and comprehension. Oral language is made up of receptive (listening) and expressive (speaking) components. Long before they can express themselves, young children begin to understand what is being said. This is known as receptive language. Once they begin to say sounds, words, and […]

  • Reaching Children: Integrated Planning Around Anchor Books | Ecosystem Element 5

    Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

    Session Description:  This session will explore integrated planning around anchor books and looks at the school/site’s efforts to develop curricular experiences integrated around a culturally preserving, developmentally-appropriate anchor book with […]

  • A Focus on Emergent Literacy Skills | Ecosystem Element 6

    Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

    Session Description:  This session will discuss element 6, Emergent Literacy Skills, which considers how teachers explicitly plan and provide curricular experiences and developmentally appropriate activities to support the development of […]

  • Intentional Supports for Dual Language Learners
    | Ecosystem Element 8

    Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

    Session Description: This session will explore the Ecosystem Element 8, which focuses on intentional supports for DLL learners.  Dual Language Learners (DLLs) or emergent bilinguals, are children learning and developing in more than one language. This element is exclusively focused on the school/site’s systematic and integrated efforts to develop an equitable environment that support DLLs through […]

  • Centering First Language and Culture

    Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

    The National Association for Family Child Care reports that 40% of nearly 11 million young children with working mothers in the United States spent more time in family childcare than […]