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Universal Prekindergarten Cafe

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.

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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