You want to provide the best early childhood experience for children and their parents. But you don’t have easy access to high-quality training. We provide you with relevant, research-based, and Biblically-sound training and on-demand courses so that you and your staff can confidently care for and teach young children.
Summer Survival Tips for Teachers
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Hey Reader! Summer in childcare can be joyful—and exhausting. There’s a little less pressure, and we’re having loads of fun, but the days still require a lot of energy, don’t they? Here are a few quick ways to stay grounded and fill your cup throughout the day!
You can’t pour into others if you’re running on empty. Let Him refill you in small ways throughout the day! Forward this to a teammate who could use a little encouragement today! P.S. Post pictures of your summer scripture sticky notes to Facebook and Instagram and tag us! We’d love to see what God is using to encourage you this summer! Cheering you on this week! -Your ECCN team
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Early Childhood Christian Network
You want to provide the best early childhood experience for children and their parents. But you don’t have easy access to high-quality training. We provide you with relevant, research-based, and Biblically-sound training and on-demand courses so that you and your staff can confidently care for and teach young children.
Hey Reader! We are on our way to Georgetown, TX, today for our Central Texas State Conference! Would you stop for a moment and pray for us? Here are some specific requests: Safety for our speakers and vendors as they travel. Last-minute details to come together in God’s timing and with His people. That God would supernaturally fill the gaps we haven’t thought of That conference attendees would be equipped well and sense the Spirit of God as they participate. That HVAC and technology would...
Hey Reader! “PRAISE is celebrative worship in which believers magnify and exalt the Lord through expressive acts, enthusiastically proclaiming the unrivaled excellence of His Name, His character, and His actions in a spirit of uninhibited rejoicing!” -Dr. Bruce Leafblad Jean Thomason (aka Miss Pattycake) shared this quote with me recently in a conversation, and it gave me a whole new perspective on some of the typical behavior we see in preschoolers! When I read the words "uninhibited...
Hey Reader! We know how essential social-emotional development is during the first five years of life, and at ECCN, we talk about practical strategies regularly for supporting healthy social-emotional development. In the first few years, children are learning how to identify their feelings, control their impulses, build relationships, and make good choices. In education, we often call this Social and Emotional Learning. The framework is valuable and accurate, but today, we’re going to take a...