Implementing Continuity for Infants and Toddlers

McCormick Institute for Early Childhood

BY Kay Albrecht, Barbara Milnor, Kaitlyn Hunter, Leslie Jackson  | September 1, 2012

Continuity of care during early childhood is not a new idea. Keeping children together with the same teacher and peer group, also called looping or sustained instruction, has been around the educational world for a long time and is standard early childhood practice in many countries. … Download this resource to read the rest of this story.


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