Age 0-5 | Cradle to Career Roadmap

School readiness focuses on a young child’s social, cognitive, physical, and emotional development to ensure a successful transition into school. Children in this range need a strong developmental foundation from birth to 36 months of age. They will learn age-appropriate interaction with the environment and others.

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CREEC Network

CREEC Network

The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is a program of the California Department of Education. The CREEC Network fosters regional partnerships throughout the state of California to promote environmental education and environmental literacy by providing teachers with access to high quality professional learning opportunities and education resources. Along with statewide sponsors and partners, each of the 11 California CREEC Regions provides professional learning opportunities and resources to educators as well as foster communications among schools and organizations interested in supporting the environmental literacy of California’s teachers and students. More information on the CDE’s CREEC Network program is posted on the CDE website. For Region 10 - RIMS information & resources go to: https://www.creec.org/Home/Region/10
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EEC - Environmental Learning Resources PDF

EEC - Environmental Learning Resources PDF

The Environmental Education Collaborative (EEC), with the help of educational and community partners, created this digital environmental resource for Riverside and San Bernardino Counties - Environmental Learning Resources Guide. This guide was developed to help educators and community members find sites and programs about natural resources and sustainability. This guide provides information on programs for all ages from early childhood through adult, as well as information on professional training opportunities.
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San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

The Countywide Vision is a community-based effort to create a county where residents and investors can prosper and achieve well-being. The Countywide Vision website includes the Countywide Vision statement, information on progress being made to achieve the Vision, and resources to help everyone participate in the Vision effort.
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Literacy Activities in the Home

Literacy Activities in the Home

This document provides interactive literacy activities designed for parents to use with their child at home.
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Footsteps2Brilliance

Footsteps2Brilliance

Students can engage in early literacy learning in this fun and engaging game-based platform that is accessible on-line or as an app download. These fun activities support the development of print concept, phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition

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Education Inequalities at the School Starting Gate

This study examines the relationship between children’s socioeconomic status (SES) and their cognitive and noncognitive skills when starting school using data from the kindergarten classes of 1998 and 2010.

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Workforce of Today, Workforce of Tomorrow: The Business Case for High-Quality Childcare

The report argues for the importance of childcare for the business future of the United States.

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San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

The Countywide Vision is a community-based effort to create a county where residents and investors can prosper and achieve well-being. The Countywide Vision website includes the Countywide Vision statement, information on progress being made to achieve the Vision, and resources to help everyone participate in the Vision effort.

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Peardeck-Turn Google Slides into Interactive Lessons

Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.

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Accessibility Guide for Educators

This guide will help support anybody who wants to know about the why, what and how of creating a more accessible classroom for students.

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Physical Education Articles from Edutopia

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop physical fitness and health.

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El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center

We are Community Health Workers and Promotors! Community health workers (CHWs) and promotors are at the center of everything we do. Each year, El Sol serves over 50,000 community residents through its programs led by CHWs and promotors. El Sol has been serving the Inland Empire for more than 30 years working to achieve positive, measurable change. El Sol offers foundations and other organizations technical assistance on the development and implementation of CHWs and promotors programs to identify and target community priorities.

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San Bernardino County Libraries

San Bernardino County has over 30 libraries and branches throughout the community. This interactive map provides information about each one, as well as the location and hours. Libraries are a great source for books and media for all ages.

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How to Support Academic Success by Encouraging Your Child to Talk

Building strong oral language (speaking and listening) skills is a crucial foundation for participation in school, for developing reading and writing proficiency, and for academic success.

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Salsa! Spanish Language Series: Season One

SALSA blends puppets, animation, live action and music to create a unique experience for first-time learners of Spanish language and culture. The series spices up learning by creating a visually exciting production, complete with funny characters that children can enjoy, in situations they can quickly recognize and understand.

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The Committee for Economic Development - Early Learning Policy

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) provides resources associated to high-quality early childhood education. CED collaborates with business, policymakers, and local community members to deliver high-quality early childhood education to communities that need services the most.

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Nick Jr. Games

Children can play games featuring characters from their favorite Nick Jr. shows, some of which engage children's math, reading and social-emotional skills.

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California Preschool Learning Foundations - Volume 2

The California Preschool Learning Foundations Series outline key knowledge and skills that most children can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments that research has shown to promote early learning and development. Volume 2 of the series, a 126-page document, discusses the learning foundations on visual and performing arts, physical development, and health.

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California Preschool Learning Foundations - Volume 1

The California Preschool Learning Foundations Series outline key knowledge and skills that most children can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments that research has shown to promote early learning and development. Volume 1 of the series, a 205-page document, discusses the learning foundations on social-emotional development, language and literacy, English-language development, and mathematics.

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California Preschool Learning Foundations - Volume 3

The California Preschool Learning Foundations Series outline key knowledge and skills that most children can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments that research has shown to promote early learning and development. Volume 3 of the series, a 184-page document, discusses the learning foundations related to history/social science and science.

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California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations

The purpose of the California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations is to describe research and evidence-based expectations for the way most infants and toddlers make progress. This 128-page document discusses developmental foundations to ensure that early childhood development programs offer appropriate developmental support and care for young children.

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The California Department of Education - Early Learning and Care Resources

The California Department of Education (CDE) provides a variety of resources for early learning.

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Best Beginnings: Alaska's Early Childhood Investment

This website discusses the importance of children's first five years, provides activities and resources for parents and educators to support whole child development, and identifies steps community members and businesses can take to support early child development. (Birth - K)

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The Arts in Early Childhood

Led by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), several United States federal agencies have come together with a mutual interest in identifying and filling knowledge gaps in how the arts affect individual health and well-being across the lifespan. This literature review and gap analysis details the social and emotional benefits of arts participation and details what arts participation looks like in early childhood.

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Expanding Early Learning - Full Day Preschool and Kindergarten

This report discusses research about the benefits of full-day preschool and kindergarten programs and provides aligned recommendations for local and state government leaders.

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Raising Children - First 1000 Days

An Australian parenting website offering comprehensive, practical, expert child health, parenting information, and activities.

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California Association for the Education of Young Children

Californian membership-based advocacy organization dedicated to advancing excellence throughout the early care and education profession. CAAEYC unites educators of young children and advocates for political and professional leadership.

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Federal and State Funding for Child Care and Early Learning

This is a budget information sheet on federal and state funding for early childcare.

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Perry Preschool Project

The Perry Preschool Study examines the lives of 123 children born in poverty and at high risk of failing in school. From 1962–1967, at ages 3 and 4, subjects were randomly divided into a program group that entered a high-quality preschool program based on HighScope's participatory learning approac and a comparison group who received no preschool program.