Early Education Matters
Dear Friends: On behalf of E3: Elevate Early Education, we are thrilled to launch, Early Education Matters, a campaign and nonpartisan coalition to advance our legislative priorities for the 2020 session and…
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What Does High-Quality Early Education Look Like?
What Does Quality in Early Education Look Like? Lots of books for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Creative, free form art materials and activities available in the classroom for children to…
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Historic Day for Early Education
The Governor and First Lady announced a $94.8 million dollar budget package at the ACCA Child Development Center for early education, the largest ever investment in Virginia’s early childhood education…
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Join the $1,000 Club
Every year we turn away over 30 families who have applied for a scholarship to The New E3 School. These families desperately want to give their child the gift of…
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Building Brains in Young Children
I did not allow my children to use technology until they were three and four-years-old. It was not easy to make this decision as a parent, but because I read…
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Child Care Subsidy – Improvements and Alternatives
The Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is federal funding provided to the states aimed at expanding access to high quality child care for low income families. In 2018 Congress…
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Let Children Play
A recent article in the New York Times entitled Taking Playtime Seriously and a 2018 American Academy of Pediatrics study remind us of the importance of play. Both the article and study…
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The Generational Impact of High Quality Early Education
Sixty years ago, The Perry Preschool Project aimed to study the lifetime impacts of high quality early education experiences. The participants in the study were socioecomically and developmentally disadvantaged African…
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Preschool Expulsion, A Parent’s Perspective
“…and so, I have to give you an official two weeks notice.” There it was; the culmination of a rocky few weeks at school for my daughter, Madison. I’d…
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Mindfulness Linked to Children’s Ability to Regulate Feelings & Emotions
Mindfulness is maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of your thoughts, feelings and bodies. Research tells us that yoga practice in early childhood and elementary classrooms teaches children self-awareness, breathing techniques, how…
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