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Early Learning and Child Care

Websites

Alberta Education - Early Childhood Education (https://www.alberta.ca/early-childhood-education.aspx)

  • Information about the province's educational programming for children before they enter Grade 1.

Alberta Education - Inclusive Education (https://www.alberta.ca/inclusive-education.aspx)

  • Information about the province's inclusive education initiative.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections (https://www.researchconnections.org/childcare/welcome)

  • Offers research and data resources for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and others.

Childcare Resource and Research Unit (http://www.childcarecanada.org/)

  • Canadian site that includes articles, reports, statistics on early childhood care, education research, and policy.

Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Education (http://www.do2learn.com/)

  •    Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills

Early Learning, Early Grades (http://galileonetwork.ca/earlylearning/)

  • Working in partnership with Alberta Education, Galileo Educational Network has developed comprehensive resources for parents and professionals in play-based early childhood education, focusing on children between the ages of three and eight.

Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education (http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/en-ca/home.html)

  • Published by the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (CEECD) and the Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development (SKC-ECD). According to the website, the Encyclopedia "covers 47 topics related to the development of the child, from conception to the age of five, and presents the most up-to-date scientific knowledge."

TeachingBooks (http://www.teachingbooks.net/)

  • This website provides "thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors." The resources contained within are "perfect for lesson planning, author studies, and professional development to support the many ways books can be integrated into all subject areas in the K–12 curriculuM."

Zero to Three (http://www.zerotothree.org/)

  • This nonprofit organization informs, trains, and supports professionals and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.