Which do you think is more important to teach children: empathy or manners?  If you chose “manners”, then you align with 58% of the respondents to a Sesame Workshop survey.  Teachers, however, overwhelmingly (67%) stated that empathy, or the ability…

A common, teacher-requested feature has been added to PEACH: the ability to save notes to time blocks when creating templates in PEACH.  For example, “Breakfast” may be a time block that you created and saved to your lesson plan template.…

Like most of you, the Best Practices team will be enjoying some much needed time with family and friends during the next couple of weeks.  The blog will also take a hiatus until after the new year.  See you in…

I ran across a new-to-me blog recently that I want to share with you.  Deborah Stewart publishes the Teach Preschool blog, and in her own words, it is “filled with photos and real life stories of early learning in action…