“If you walk into a high-quality early education classroom, what you see is children playing. What you may not realize is that each station in the room, whether the block area or the dramatic play space or the book corner, has been carefully set up to foster children’s learning and healthy development.”
Amy O’Leary, Strategies for Children, March 7, 2013
Eye on Early Education focuses on the twin goals of ensuring that Massachusetts children have access to high-quality early education and become proficient readers by the end of third grade.
In a single paragraph, Amy captures the science and art of high quality early education and the intentionality of high quality Educators that makes it all possible.
Reblogged this on realityfirst and commented:
This brief paragraph does such a wonderful job of pinpointing the importance of play, the intentionality of Educators, and the science at the foundation of high-quality programs, which of course includes high-quality staff!