NORTH CAROLINA RESOURCES

North Carolina Resources

 Office of Early Learning: The Office of Early Learning focuses on Pre-K - Grade 3 to support children's success in the early grades. The Office of Early Learning combines the Department's staffs in primary education and prekindergarten and promotes other linkages for reforming early education for North Carolina's children. Through this Office, the Department partners with the FirstSchool initiative of the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. FirstSchool is a Pre-K - Grade 3 initiative to promote public school efforts to become more responsive to the needs of an increasingly younger, more diverse population.

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/earlylearning/

 North Carolina Early Learning Network (NC-ELN) The North Carolina Early Learning Network, funded by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI), provides early learning communities with professional development and technical assistance to support preschool children with disabilities and their families through the vision of DPI's Office of Early Learning:

https://nceln.fpg.unc.edu/

 FirstSchool partners with school communities to focus on improving PreK-3rd grade school experiences for African American, Latino and low-income children and their families. The FirstSchool team provides research expertise and professional development support in collaboration with districts, schools, administrators, and teachers.

https://firstschool.fpg.unc.edu/

 NC FOUNDATIONS FOR EARLY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT Foundations describes goals for all children’s development and learning, no matter what program they may be served in, what language they speak, what disabilities they may have, or what family circumstances they are growing up in. The document provides age-appropriate goals and developmental indicators for each age level - infant, toddler, and preschooler. Foundations is also intended to be a guide for teaching – not a curriculum or checklist that is used to assess children’s development and learning, but a resource to define the skills and abilities we want to support in the learning experiences we provide for children.

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/earlylearning/development/

 North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five The North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five are an expansion of the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development (2013). Learning progressions were developed for each identified goal in four developmental domains, and show the steps through which children develop skills from birth to five years.

https://earlylearningprogressions.fpg.unc.edu/

 North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children NCAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

http://ncaeyc.org/

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 North Carolina Child Care Coalition the NC early education coalition is dedicated to advancing the quality and affordability of early care and education for young children, their families, and communities.

https://www.ncearlyeducationcoalition.org