NAEYC Conference Inspiration

Every year, around 20,000 early childhood educators descend upon an unsuspecting city and take root for a four day conference. I have been attending the Annual Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) for 6 years now, and every year I go back home inspired …

In the First Five Years

Did you know that 75% of a child’s IQ is developed in the first five years of life?  If you think early childhood is just a time of physical growth, you are mistaken.  The brain is constantly changing through this period (and really into adulthood too…the prefrontal cortex isn’t fully …