May 13, 2020
Regina Wright Plan Do Review: Spring has Sprung and during the springtime we like to enhance our ways of keeping children hydrated. Below are a few quick nutritious delicious sna...
May 6, 2020
Megan Pittsinger ¡Con tantos días lluviosos, todos estamos cansados de quedarnos adentro! ¿Qué podemos hacer para evitar que los niños y nosotros mismos nos volvamos locos? ¿Qué ...
May 6, 2020
Megan Pittsinger With so many rainy days, we are all tired of staying inside! What can we do to keep the children and ourselves from going crazy? How about a board game or a card...
April 29, 2020
Amy Hoffman “May the Fourth be with you!” It’s a greeting I hear every year from many of my friends across the globe. What started out as a pun on the phrase “May the Force be wi...
April 29, 2020
Amy Hoffman (translated by Claribel Nieves-Soto) “¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!” Es un saludo que escucho todos los años de muchos de mis amigos en todo el mundo. Lo que comenzó co...
April 22, 2020
Regina Wright “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” Andy ...
April 15, 2020
Barbara Bredell-Searle You wake up in the morning and realize that the alarm did not go off and now you have less time to get ready for work. This limited time leaves you no time...
April 8, 2020
Kelli Harris What exactly is Earth Day? The first Earth Day occurred in 1970, after a U.S. Senator saw the impact of an oil spill in California. Earth Day is celebrated each year...
April 8, 2020
Kelli Harris (translated by Claribel Nieves-Soto) ¿Qué es exactamente el Día de la Tierra? El primer Día de la Tierra ocurrió en 1970, después de que un senador de los Estados Un...
April 1, 2020
Pam Schaffner The assessment team in PA is often asked if they have any tips to make meeting quality standards easier. Since they have experiences visiting many programs in their...
March 20, 2020
Angel Avery-Wright Schools are closed and many children are attending school online. Businesses are closed. Restaurants are offering curb side pick-up or delivery, no dining in. ...
March 11, 2020
Additional Notes for Clarification have been released for the ECERS-3 and will impact the PA Key PQA Team’s use of the ECERS-3. If you aren’t already familiar with ERS Notes for C...
March 4, 2020
Megan Pittsinger Are you tired of the rainy, snowy, freezing days that are keeping us in? Are you wondering what kind of fun activities you can do inside to keep the children bus...
February 26, 2020
Megan Pittsinger It’s that time of year again, the days are getting shorter and the temperatures are getting colder. It’s also that time of year when we need to have indoor gross...
February 19, 2020
Angel Avery-Wright I had the pleasure of watching a group of school aged children from Active Learning Centers complete a group activity: the building challenge. These children r...
February 12, 2020
Amelia Gibson Lehman Let me share with you something about working with small children. It’s really hard. Today I went to the bathroom more times to cry for a few minutes than to...
February 5, 2020
Kelli Harris Each February, the American Dental Association (ADA) sponsors National Children’s Dental Health Month to raise awareness about the importance of oral health. This mo...
February 5, 2020
Kelli Harris Cada febrero, la Asociación Dental Americana (ADA) patrocina el Mes Nacional de la Salud Dental de los Niños para crear conciencia sobre la importancia de la salud b...
January 29, 2020
Kitty Syster After-school programs are always rushed for time, when trying to make an impact on the children they serve. By the time all the busses arrive and basic routines are ...
January 22, 2020
Jill Kortwright The Program Quality Assessment (PQA) team is excited to welcome All About the ECERS-3 to our library of resources. If you’ve attended an Environment Rating Scal...