by Rising Stride | Oct 2, 2025 | Early Education
Routines provide the two key ingredients necessary for learning: relationships and repetition. For most of us, our lives involve a series of patterns—routines we perform almost every day, like stopping at the same place each day for coffee on the way to work. This is...
by Rising Stride | Oct 1, 2025 | Early Education
In early learning programs, children learn through exploration, inquiry, and playful experiences. When educators offer open-ended materials such as blocks and playdough that can be used in a variety of ways, they encourage children to follow their sense of curiosity,...
by Rising Stride | Sep 30, 2025 | Early Education
Children love to explore the colors, textures, sights and sounds of nature, and research tells us that playful learning activities that make use of natural materials contribute to children’s physical, social-emotional and cognitive development. Nature-based...
by Rising Stride | Sep 29, 2025 | Early Education
During the first years of life, children’s brains make rapid neural connections that equip them to discover the world around them, develop a sense of identity, and learn how to learn. As early learning providers, we can help the little ones in our care during their...
by Rising Stride | Sep 26, 2025 | Early Education
Effective learning in the early years is crucial for a child’s holistic development, setting the foundations for future academic success and lifelong learning. As effective educators we need to understand how a child learns so we can help them develop the...