Early care and education is essential. As early childhood professionals, we take for granted that people understand what we do and why we do it, but we know this is not always true. It is our responsibility to make clear and cogent arguments for financial and educational support for our field. We

Imagine a room with light streaming in the windows, shadows dancing on the floors and walls, and a richly textured world of different shapes and sizes of furniture to climb on, over, around, and in – with places to just sit, places to snuggle. It is a room where you can sometimes make wild

Recent brain research makes it clear that many critical aspects of brain development happen during a child’s first few years of life. New connections in the brain are formed quickly when children are very young. In particular, by age three, a child’s brain has about twice as many