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Autumn Higbee

@HigbeeN4916

Early Childhood Professional, helping children THRIVE. Graduate student at Indiana Wesleyan University. Childcare Coordinator @ Elkhart Child Development Center

Come read my new blog where I explore a new digital platform called "Socrative"! abhigbee.wixsite.com/earlychildhood…


A person with an ACE score of 7 or more had triple the lifetime risk of lung cancer and three and a half times the risk of ischemic heart disease, the number one killer in our country. Early adversity SEVERLY affects health across a lifetime. #ChildrenCanThrive @iwu_earlychild


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If a flower doesn’t bloom, we don’t ask what’s wrong with the flower. We ask what’s wrong with the environment. #EducateChildren #ChildrenCanThrive

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Children who receive quality early childhood education perform better in school, are less likely to drop out or repeat classes. #TransformingEducation means that learning starts early.

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Early childhood education is one of the most cost-effective investments a country can make in its people and overall development. Yet, early childhood education remains underfunded. #FundEducation

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#Futureteachers Cheyanne Diamond & Elizabeth Byler were 2 of 14 #elementary majors with a concentration in #earlychildhood completing their #summer #practicum at ECDC - Saint Mary's & Notre Dame

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Our Youth Coordination Officers attended Career Day at the New Life Child Development Center in Louis Armstrong Houses. They spoke to the children about the importance of child safety and the police officers that protect them.

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Inadequate funding for the critical nutrition assistance #WIC provides to new and expecting parents and young kids could force states to turn away about 2 million ppl during critical windows for child development. cbpp.org/research/food-…

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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth. Madeleine M. Kunin


The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch


If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams


If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all. Kirsten Gillibrand


Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Maria Montessori


Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. Marilyn Jager Adams


It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass


The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock


A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. Andy Hargreaves


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