Advocating for optimizing brain development in high-quality early childhood education programs

 Teachers must help students to become active and goal oriented by building on their natural desire to explore, to understand new things and to master them. High-quality early childhood education programs promote cognitive development in young children to help them reach their full potential later in life. 

By laying the foundation in the early year’s educators are optimizing brain development in the later years. As preschool programs expand, we should place quality at the forefront to help students—and the public—realize the high return on investment possible in these programs.

A high-quality early childhood education program includes programs that are accountable, accessible, and promotes cognitive development. A program can prove their level of quality by using a scientifically based proven curriculum that is implemented with high levels of fidelity and focuses on cognitive and social and emotional development, the program has a code of ethics that is clear and consistent and illustrates a commitment to respect for diversity, culture and community, while exemplifying these qualities daily; they are not just words written in a handbook (naeyc.org).

The video below provides a related advocacy message that I feel is essential for early childhood professionals and supportive of positive social change. 

https://youtu.be/GbSp88PBe9E