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Family Engagement Across the State

Title I, PFE Statewide Initiative

January 9th from 9:00-10:30 am (CST)  Explore the surprising trends in screen time, the science behind its impact, and the practical strategies your family needs to thrive in today’s digital age. Backed by cutting-edge research, this session will empower you to help your kids build healthy tech habits while staying connected in a tech-saturated world.  This is a free event and is open to parents AND educators.

SPEDTex Newsletter

The Special Education Information Center (SPEDTex) provides resources and interactive features for increasing family awareness of disabilities and special education processes, with the goal of improving partnerships between schools and families. Click here to Stay Connected!

Title III Initiative

The Emergent Bilingual Student  Support Division is happy to announce that the Winter Parents & Families Newsletter is now available to read and share! Readers will learn about ways to support learning at home through reading, playing games, and web-based resources. The newest section, "The Benefits of Bilingualism," shares an article that describes the high need for bilingual employees across the United States. Click here to access the newsletter.

Play the Head Start Way Newsletter Issue No. 8

Open a Box of Possibilities to Support STEAM Learning: Try This Out!

"Looking for free, low-cost, and fun ways to engage children? Educators and families can use cardboard boxes to spark children’s imaginations. While adults may see a cardboard box as an everyday object, it holds numerous possibilities in the eyes of a child. Open-ended materials like boxes offer children opportunities to express their creativity and imagination. Children build science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) skills as they choose materials to imagine, create, test their ideas, and implement them. So, what’s in the box? Endless possibilities!" Click here to access the newsletter and read more!

The Play the Head Start Way Newsletter is produced monthly by the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning. Email ecdtl@ecetta.info to submit questions or suggestions for future newsletter topics.

Community Resource

Reach out to me at claudia.vargas@esc20.net or 210-370-5286 if you have any questions.