Many Right Ways: Exploring Quality in Family Child Care
Explore the many ways you can offer high-quality child care to young children.
Join us for an interactive course that explores the many ways that family child care providers and all caregivers can ensure high-quality care in their setting.
This course is a special collaboration between Sesame Street in Communities (SSIC) and our friends at the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC). Our two organizations have a long history of working together to support children, families, and providers. This course is a continuation of our effort to celebrate the incredibly important work of family child care providers, and to support all caregivers on their journey toward quality improvement and accreditation.
Course Goals:
- Explore NAFCC’s quality standards.
- Offer strategies and resources providers can use to have high-quality interactions.
- Model quality standards in applied in a variety of settings.
- Support providers on their journey to improved quality and/or accreditation.
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In collaboration with: NAFCC
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For Providers: Using These Resources
Print and refer to this page as you implement the materials in this initiative.
Toddler Tips: Meltdowns
Strategies for during and after a meltdown…and even some ways meltdowns might be avoided.
6 Ways to Practice Nurturing Parenting
Tips from a pediatrician on understanding, empathizing with, encouraging, and positively guiding children.
Parenting Moment: Describing
The way you talk with children matters! Your words have power.
Milestones: Your Four-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
Milestones: Your Five-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
Milestones: Your Six-Year-Old
All children grow and develop at their own pace; use this chart to guide your expectations and observations so you can talk to your child’s pediatrician about questions or concerns.
