by WHSA | Apr 3, 2012
MADISON — State Superintendent Tony Evers joined Governor Scott Walker today at Franklin Elementary School in Wausau as the governor signed important education legislation into law. “I am pleased that Governor Walker signed into law the bill that incorporates...
by WHSA | Jun 23, 2011
The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center has released A Window to the World: Promoting Early Language and Literacy Development, a set of a new policy brief and video illustrating how early language and literacy development contributes to a child’s success throughout life, as...
by WHSA | Mar 10, 2011
The Center of Early Literacy Learning (CELL) has developed two new mini-posters to provide parents and teachers with simple ways to enhance daily activities and routines with literacy-specific opportunities. “Meals and Snacks” and “Bath Time...
by WHSA | Jan 31, 2011
In the new 20 minute “Parents, Books, and the Roots of Literacy” podcast from the New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative Early Ed Watch, Gabrielle Miller, a former teacher and national expert on early literacy interventions, discusses...
by WHSA | Oct 4, 2010
The Center for Early Learning Literacy Learning (CELL) has released a new video, Child Interests–Interests Lead to Learning, to help parents or practitioners explore how to identify a child’s personal and situational interests and how those interests can be used...
by WHSA | Sep 16, 2010
The Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) has developed technical assistance tools for trainers on early literacy practices for young children birth to age six which offer a variety of methods, materials, and practices that can be used to conduct raining on early...
by WHSA | Sep 2, 2010
Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL), a professional organization to develop and maintain professional expertise in English language teaching and learning for speakers of other languages worldwide, recently release a Position Paper on Language...
by WHSA | Aug 6, 2010
The Milwaukee Community Literacy Project, a partnership between the Milwaukee Public Schools and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, will receive a five-year, $4.1 million development grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in...
by WHSA | Jun 25, 2010
TheNational Institute for Literacy recently released Learning to Talk and Listen: An Oral Language Resource for Early Childhood Caregivers,the second booklet in its “Cornerstones” series of publications to support research-based early literacy practices. ...