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Excerpt from The Essentials: Supporting Young Children with Disabilities in the Classroom

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Education for a Civil Society: Teaching Young Children to Gain Five Democratic Life Skills, Second Edition

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The What and How of Using Play Materials: Supporting Learning, Development, and Well-Being in Birth to Age 3

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Embedded Learning Opportunities for Children with and Without Disabilities

education. To plan and use practices that implement individualized 鈥� recent position statement on developmentally appropriate practice , which states that educators 鈥� align with research-supported practices (DEC 2014; 51吃瓜网 2020) and 鈥�

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A Road Forward: Five Democratic Life Skills for a Civil Society

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Viewpoint. We鈥檙e Not All Friends Here (and That鈥檚 Okay)

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Excerpt from The Essentials: Supporting Young Children with Disabilities in the Classroom

Education for a Civil Society: Teaching Young Children to Gain Five Democratic Life Skills, Second Edition

The What and How of Using Play Materials: Supporting Learning, Development, and Well-Being in Birth to Age 3

Member Spotlight: Jana Boddy

I'm Not Ready to Tidy Up

Embedded Learning Opportunities for Children with and Without Disabilities

Stepping Back to Nurture

A Road Forward: Five Democratic Life Skills for a Civil Society

The Birdfeeder Project

Viewpoint. We鈥檙e Not All Friends Here (and That鈥檚 Okay)

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