Representatives from the Council spent two days last week at the National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs: Connecting Research to Policy and Practice, an interactive forum for home visiting researchers, program leaders, and policy makers concerned about improving home visiting system quality and family outcomes.  The Summit was co-sponsored by Every Child Succeeds, the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Pew Charitable Trust Center on the States.  Leaders in Home Visiting programs came together to discuss new research and explore ways to expand Home Visitor programs throughout the country.

 In our last article we discussed the importance of intentionality.  We said that the ultimate purpose for being a reflective practitioner is to become an intentional practitioner; in other words, teachers or caregivers who regularly think about what they do can be purposeful in the choices they make with children, families, coworkers and supervisors.

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The Council is excited to announce that later this year we will release the newly-revised third edition of the landmark textbook Essentials for Child Development Associates Working with Young Children.  The new Essentials will provide all of the most current research, information, ideas and strategies needed by entry-level early childhood professionals.  The textbook will be organized around each of the thirteen Functional Areas, along with new information about reflection, intentionality, observation, documentation and other key topics of interest to contemporary teachers and caregivers.