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Healthy Babies (2002)
Successful Learning (2001)
Teaching Quality (2001)
Young Children (2000)
Reading and Writing (2000)
Reading 101 (1999)
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (1999)
School-based decision making (1999)
How well is your child doing in school? (1999)
Healthy Babies (2002)
Helping Your Child See and Hear the World
What Early Childhood Education Looks Like
The Importance of Early Childhood Mental Health
Successful Learning (2001)
Threat and High Stress Can Affect Your Brain
A Brain is Like... a Kitchen Utensil?
Learning Is More Than a Mental Exercise
Left Brain/Right Brain Learning
Feedback helps our brains grow and develop
Processing time helps our brain learn more
Teaching Quality (2001)
Becoming a Teacher in Kentucky...
Teaching by the Numbers...
A profile of the education and experience of Kentucky teachers.
Recruiting and Keeping Great Teachers
Teachers who meet national standards
How does Kentucky make sure its teachers are qualified?
What does good teaching look like?
Does Kentucky pay enough for good teaching?
Who's responsible for good teaching?
Young Children (2000)
Young Children: The Wonder Years
Creating a healthy, stimulating environment for children
Young Children: Minimum Daily Requirements
What caregivers can do to improve a young child's everyday life
Young Children: How Children Learn
Developmentally appropriate practices to help children learn and progress at their own rate, including things to look for in developmentally appropriate classrooms
Young Children: What Children Learn
How children in preschool and early elementary classrooms learn language and literacy skills, math and science, social studies, and the arts
Young Children: Inside Good Classrooms
What parents should look for in good preschool and early elementary classrooms
Young Children: Community Partnerships
How communities can strengthen early childhood education by supporting schools and families
Young Children: The Role of Parents
The different roles of parents as partners in their child's school experiences
Good Teaching: Nurturing a Thoughtful Learning Environment
Traits of thoughtful teachers
Reading and Writing (2000)
Kentucky's Focus on Literacy
The importance of teaching reading and writing skills to children
The Kentucky Reading Project: Reading and the Family
Information about the Kentucky Reading Project, an effort by Kentucky elementary school teachers and others to improve student achievement and emphasize family involvement in reading
The Kentucky Reading Project: Reading aloud to your child
Tips for reading aloud
The Kentucky Reading Project: The ABCs of reading
Key concepts in the teaching and development of reading
The Kentucky Reading Project: Read, read, and read still more
Includes reading guidelines for children ages 5 to 8
Tips for Families: Helping your child with writing
Suggestions to help your child become a better writer
Tips for Families: Writing it Right
Helping children with their beginning writing attempts
Tips for Families: Reading + Writing
Activities to promote the reading-writing connection for children
Reading 101 (1999)
Reading 101: Children from birth to 3 years
Reading 101: Children ages 3 and 4
Reading 101: Kindergarten students
Reading 101: Simple things families can do
Reading 101: Other simple things families can do
Reading 101: Simple things employers can do
Reading 101: Other simple things employers can do
Reading 101: Simple things child care providers can do
Reading 101: Other simple things child care providers can do
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (1999)
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (1 of 4)
Overview
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (2 of 4)
Testing schedule
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (3 of 4)
Tips for parents
Measuring up: The Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) (4 of 4)
Quick facts about the new tests
School-based decision making (1999)
School-based decision making: An overview
School-based decision making: A parent's role
School-based decision making: Its role in student learning
How well is your child doing in school? (1999)
How well is your child doing in school? (1 of 5)
What to look for and ask to find out how well your child is doing
How well is your child doing in school? (2 of 5)
Interpreting grades; grade inflation
How well is your child doing in school? (3 of 5)
Talking to and observing your child; teacher reports; keeping track of your child's school information
How well is your child doing in school? (4 of 5)
Tips for teacher conferences
How well is your child doing in school? (5 of 5)
Working with teachers when your child has trouble or needs extra attention
