Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive: Connecting Your Practice and Curriculum to State Guidelines

Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive provides a focused and easy-to-understand look at the most common early childhood learning standards, including what they are, how current classroom practices support them, and how teachers can plan curriculum with their state’s learning standards in mind.

Written by Gaye Gronlund, an early childhood consultant with experience working with teachers and directors around standards, this timely resource focuses specifically on math, science, literacy, social studies, social/emotional development, and physical development standards, and on how teachers can implement these standards in a way that is deveopmentally appropriate and good for children.

Gaye Gronlund is an early childhood education consultant and trains early childhood educators across the country on topics ranging from observation and assessment to understanding and meeting state education standards. She holds a master's degree in human development from Pacific Oaks College with a specialization in early childhood education and teaching adults.