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Early Childhood Indicators of Progress
Strategies Policymakers Can Use...
...to Promote Children's Social and Emotional Development.
- Acknowledge the importance of social and emotional development and its relationship to overall learning
- Design strategies for Minnesota to become a model for family-friendly policy development
- Promote high-quality, developmentally and culturally appropriate early childhood education and care
- Ensure linkages between early childhood
education and care services and health, mental
health, and social services for young children and their families - Support high standards for early childhood educators and caregivers
- Promote parent education opportunities to help parents understand the importance of parenting skills related to healthy social and emotional development
...to promote children's development in Approaches to Learning.
- Encourage cooperation and collaboration across systems that impact environments and activities for families with young children
- Ensure accessible and affordable environments and activities for families with young children
- Support the development of children and base decisions on developmental needs of the whole child
- Support appropriate use of and equitable access to media resources
...to promote children's language and literacy development.
- Support efforts to encourage adults to spend more time with children, listening, speaking, and engaging children in conversation and interaction
- Support small group sizes so teachers, caregivers, and children have opportunities for more individualized time together
- Provide support for libraries and books, early childhood programs, parent-child programs, and volunteer programs for facilitating literacy development
- Support adult and family literacy programs for the whole family
...to promote children's development in creativity and the arts.
- Develop policies that support creativity and the arts in school-based and community arts programs
- Provide support for programs for visiting artists and performers including representatives of different cultures
- Provide support for arts programs
...to promote children's cognitive development.
- Recognize the importance of healthy and supportive adult-child relationships in children’s cognitive development
- Promote early childhood education and care programs to support children’s cognitive development and readiness for school
- Provide resources for safe, natural spaces
and places for children and families to
visit and explore - Provide resources for community activities and projects that involve children and families
...to promote children's physical and motor development
- Provide resources to communities to help meet fine and gross motor development needs of all young children
- Provide universal health programs for all young children
- Ensure nutrition programs are available to all eligible young children
- Support policies that ensure child safety
- Promote policies that help families meet basic needs
- Support early identification and intervention for health, learning, and development needs
- Support community-based screening programs
for young children
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