In the first five years of life, a child’s brain grows to 90% of its adult size. Your child starts to learn from the day he or she is born. As your child’s first and most important teacher, you can help him or her learn more and prepare for school success from the start. Singing, speaking, and reading to your infant are the first steps in helping your child get ready for school success.
Raising Biliterate, Bilingual Kids Equals Double the Benefits My jaw dropped when I heard my little ones rattle off Spanish for the first time. Had all of that reading in Spanish finally paid off? The answer: yes. (Along with a little help from Dora.) In our house, we...
August is Immunization Awareness Month Thanks to immunizations over the last three generations, many serious diseases are now a thing of the past. But recent outbreaks of measles — infecting more than 1,000 people nationwide — have prompted discussion and legislative...
Child Development 101: Teaching Dual-Language Learners According to child development experts, newborns have the capacity to learn many languages at once without getting confused because, as their brain develops, so too does the ability to separate one language from...
COVID-19 Challenges: Thank a Childcare Worker! As most parents are keenly aware, quality child care is critical to a child’s development, parents’ ability to work and families’ well-being. While Los Angeles County child care providers have long faced considerable...
Special Needs? Don't Wait to Advocate with S.C.H.O.O.L. November 16-20 is American Education Week, a great reminder that every child deserves a quality education. Good schools are just the start: By law, public education must be free and appropriate to each child's...
Distance Learning: Up Close and Challenging Once upon a time, “distance learning” might have sounded easy: Find resources, sit your kids down, and voilà, they "do school" while you mop the floor or hop on the computer to do your own job remotely. The reality is a lot...
Summer Glide (Not Slide) Through Learning This Summer! A 2015 study showed that elementary school students lose about 27% of the previous year’s gains in math, and 20% of their gains in reading over summer break. According to the Northwest Education Association, the...
Learning Continues During COVID-19 School ClosingWhile COVID-19 has closed preschools and elementary schools, your child’s learning can — and should — continue at home. And whether you have WiFi access or not, opportunities for your child to learn and grow abound,...
Navigating Language Immersion Education When children learn all subjects in a new language — called immersion education — they benefit in many ways. In developing fluency in another language in daycare, Pre-K or kindergarten, children gain a lifetime skill that can be...
Research on Early Childhood Learning: What’s Changed? Kids are kids. They don’t change fundamentally from one generation to the next. But what does change — and is important to know — is the research that impacts how experts think about child development and learning,...
