An Entire Class of First Graders Just Taught the World a Lesson (Video)

Class learns sign language when a deaf student joins a classroom

This video highlights the experiences of Samantha and her family and the people who worked with them. Samantha was enrolled in Early Head Start at 18 months of age, transitioned…

Promoting Health Literacy with Free Info & Cool Tools from Your National Library of Medicine, a series of three brief training videos, is now ready for your use. The videos…

Length: 16:00 minutes Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling…

Surrounded by poverty and escalating violence, a San Francisco middle school committed to peace and embraced a program of meditation that has made students feel safer, teachers more productive, and…

Unless discipline focuses on teaching children how to act appropriately, they won’t learn anything from it. Creating a supportive school climate—and decreasing suspensions and expulsions—requires close attention to the social,…

Dr. Rosalinda B. Barrera, U.S. Department of Education, discusses the importance of seeing children’s first languages and cultures as assets.

4:22 minutes Video of Head Start in San Francisco

Aaron Nigel Smith and One World Chorus sings One Love by Bob Marley in honor of Playing for Change Day 2013.

In her talk “Assembly of the Healthy Child: The Next Steps,” educational psychologist Kathleen Gallagher discusses how investing in high-quality early childhood programs, especially for children whose families live in…