Your playbook for truly impactful early childhood education
Early childhood is a uniquely sensitive time when young learners are rapidly developing across multiple domains. Knowing which teaching strategies work best and when can have a significant impact on a child’s development and future success, both in school and beyond.
The Early Childhood Education Playbook examines how the Visible Learning® research can guide our decisions as we plan, teach, document, and partner with families and colleagues so that we can have the greatest possible impact on learning and development of children from birth to age 8. Each of the modules unpacks unique characteristics of early childhood environments as well as coherent practices that form a strong foundation for learning over time. Filled with tools and methods to support a team as they work toward a common goal, this playbook covers:
- Teacher efficacy, credibility, and clarity
- Partnerships with families
- The importance of language
- Formative assessment and feedback
- How to ensure equity and inclusion
Using these strategies, teachers will discover how they can collaborate with young learners to encourage high expectations, implement developmentally appropriate practices at the right level of challenge, and focus on explicit success criteria. Get started with this playbook and watch your young learners thrive!
Table of Content
Part 1: Who Before Do
Module 1 Becoming Expert Educators
Module 2 Partnerships with and for Learners
Module 3 Intentional Interactions for Equity and Inclusion
Module 4 Playful learning
Part 2: Communicating Clarity
Module 5 Standards and Integration
Module 6 Learning Progressions
Module 7 Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Module 8 The 4 Essentials of Communicating Clarity
Part 3: Tasks, Learning Strategies & Scaffolds
Module 9: High-Quality Tasks
Module 10: Intentionally Inclusive Tasks
Module 11: Phases of Learning
Part 4: Formative Evaluation and Feedback
Module 12: Formative Evaluation
Module 13: Effective Feedback
Module 14: Scaffolding Co-Evaluators
Module 15: Know Thy Impact
Module 16: By Design, Not By Chance
About the author
Nancy Frey is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.