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The California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations, published in February 2009, provides research-based descriptions of how children from birth to three years of age typically make developmental progress with the kind of social interactions, care, learning experiences, environments, and materials that research has shown to support healthy development.
With a goal of ensuring that all preschools in California offer high-quality programs, the California Preschool Learning Foundations, Volume 1 outline key knowledge and skills that most children can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments research has shown to promote early learning and development in four domains: social-emotional development, language and literacy, English-language development, and mathematics.
Play: It’s the way young children learn, is a pamphlet intended to help teachers and parents understand the importance of play and integrate play into daily practice. Play, It's the way young children learn explains how play contributes to school success and provides tips and resources on how parents and teachers can support play. Based on the policy brief Play in the Early Years: Key to School Success by the Early Childhood Funders, the easy-to-read pamphlet describes the importance of play for early learning and emphasizes that play is not a break from learning—it’s the way young children learn. The pamphlet has been produced in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Farsi.
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