By Mary Kate Gulick The Broken Bow Sixpence program is a partnership between Broken Bow Public Schools (BBPS), Central Nebraska Community Services’ (CNCS) Early Head Start and the Central Plains Center for Services (CPCS). That’s a lot of acronyms. The…
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6 critical benefits of home visiting programs
Since the 1970s, home visitation programs across the country have been studied, examined and reported on. A recent review of literature by the Pew Center on the States brings to light the results of high-quality home visitation. Here’s what the…
Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education
By Amy Bornemeier, Associate Vice President of Early Childhood Programs You’ve probably heard that high-quality early care and education opportunities are key to laying the foundation for success in school and later in life. Research indicates that the most critical period…
School readiness: It’s not what you think it is.
By Lynne Brehm, Statewide Coordinator, Rooted in Relationships Flash cards and boot camps and Baby Einstein, oh my! When I mention the idea of school readiness, most parents envision training their kids up to be reading Tolstoy and building robots by…
Posted in Early Childhood
Baby Brains: A webinar about early childhood brain development
Last week, Amy Bornemeier, our Vice President of Early Childhood Programs conducted a webinar for more than 200 attendees from across Nebraska on early childhood brain development. You can view the webinar now. Warning: The audio is not precisely synched…
Tagged with: brain development, early childhood education, early childhood mental health, webinar
Posted in Early Childhood
Posted in Early Childhood
Mastering the marshmallow: How infants develop self-regulation
By Mary Kate Gulick, Content Manager This video recreates the famous Standford Marshmallow Test that made headlines in the late 1960s. During the test, researchers put preschoolers in an empty room with a marshmallow. If the child could wait 15…
Early Learning in Lexington: Views from a Sixpence Family Educator
By Nancy Pinedo, Family Engagement Coordinator for Lexington Public Schools A little about me. I grew up in Lexington. Living here has given me the opportunity to see how diverse this community has become over the years. As a graduate from…
Reinforcing resilience: Strengthening the brain to overcome adversity
By Mary Kate Gulick, Content Manager Why is it that two children from seemingly similar backgrounds can turn out so differently? How can one child bounce back from adverse experiences that set the other on a course to lifelong mental…
Meet the executive functions: the key to brains that work like they should
By Mary Kate Gulick, Content Manager Too often, early childhood education programs are seen as ways to pump up toddlers’ math and pre-reading skills. There’s an unspoken idea that these programs are “nice to have” because they provide a soft,…
New Sixpence grants awarded to 8 Nebraska communities.
The Sixpence Early Learning Fund awarded its latest round of grants last week to 8 Nebraska early childhood education projects. The grant awards will benefit nearly 150 at-risk babies and toddlers. Now, Sixpence programs are serving a total of approximately…
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