Educational resources to support our youngest learners, from birth to five
Explore strategies, recommendations, and professional development resources to help you promote children’s development.
Foster Core Skills
Explore what children’s skills look like, and learn ways you can support them with your everyday interactions
Explore the Strategy Library
Learn strategies you can use to support children’s developing skills across multiple domains
Build Your Bookshelf
Find book recommendations and guides that feature diverse authors, illustrators, and characters
Genuine interactions
Whether to highlight a particular Core Skill, or to illustrate how to implement a strategy, we don’t tell — we show! We’ve captured thousands of moments with children and educators in our videos so you can really see the interactions happening.
Committed to equity
We’ve curated high-quality resources with a special emphasis on promoting equitable opportunities for every child. The early years are critical for children’s development, and every child deserves a strong beginning.
Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS) Exploration Webinar Series
Virginia’s Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS), Birth-5 Learning Guidelines articulate the skills and knowledge children need to demonstrate by the end of preschool in order to be successful in kindergarten.
With these webinars, you can:
- get familiar with each ELDS developmental area,
- explore resources, and
- learn strategies that support implementation.
This Webinar Series is created by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) in partnership with the University of Virgina’s ECE Resource Hub.
Planning Professional Development
Looking for a way to design effective professional development (PD)? Our featured resources and guiding questions can be used in work sessions (e.g., professional learning community, PD session), individual coaching, or self-reflection.
Start by downloading our guide designed to help you explore our offerings and plan group-style professional development sessions.
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The ECE Hub, powered by UVA-CASTL in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education, is a collection of high-quality, professional development resources that help educators foster children’s development and promote equitable opportunities for every child. These resources are free to use and are publicly available.
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