The Agency of Education Early Education Team's electronic newsletter shares a variety of research and evidence-based resources, hot topics, news items and professional articles relevant to your daily work and practice as an Early Childhood Educator and Early Childhood Special Educator.
UPK Café Special Issue: PreK Suspension and Expulsion - April 14, 2025
This UPK Café special issue is a reminder of suspension and expulsion laws and guidance memos from 2021 to present day. This issue focuses on PreK suspension and expulsion definitions, data reporting requirements, and monitoring process for PreK children enrolled in both public and private Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) pre-qualified education programs.
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Café Issue 5 - March 21, 2025
This Back-to-Basics issue explores the Reggio Emilia concept of the classroom environment as a third teacher with universal supports for putting that third teacher to work!
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Café Issue 4 - January 16, 2025
This fourth Back-to-Basics issue highlights the importance of the partnership between assessment and observation for collecting child progress assessment documentation, and analysis for informing instructional practices for each and every child.
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Café Issue 3 - November 25, 2024
This third Back-to-Basics issue covers observation techniques for collecting child progress assessment documentation, reflection and analysis for informing instructional practices for each and every child.
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Café Issue 2 - October 31, 2024
Back-to-Basics is the theme selected for this school year UPK Café issues. This issue covers lesson planning basics and key components with highlights from the Vermont Early Learning Standards Manual (VELS).
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Café Special Issue: Citizenship Skills - October 25, 2024
This special issue discusses developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) and implementation of citizenship skills referencing the Five Democratic Life Skills (DLS) (Gartrell, 2023) that promotes: belonging, acceptance, perspective taking, conflict resolution, advocacy, executive functioning (self-regulation) and group skills.
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Cafe: Issue 1 - August 28, 2024
In this first issue of UPK Cafe we have some announcements, professional development offerings, new initiatives and lots of resources to start the school year.
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