CA Focused Websites ​

• California Community College Chancellor's Office
• California Department of Education 
• ​Child Development Training Consortium (CDTC)
• Community Care Licensing 
• First 5 California 
• CPIN - California Preschool Instructional Network
• California Department of Education (CDE) 
• PEACH - An Early Childhood Higher Education Collaborative
• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)  
• Quality Counts California 
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• Office for the Advancement of Early Care and Education

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Websites that Support Learning

ECE Websites

• Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University This website offers an amazing selection of resources that cover the current brain research.
  
• Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC)  Choose this theme to customize and add content to this page.
  
• CORA Learning  CORA (Center for Organizational Research and Education) is a professional education organization committed to supporting educators in improving their skills to support historically underrepresented and underserved students. We offer online certificate programs that focus on key issues facing historically underrepresented and underserved students in education including racial micro aggressions, unconscious bias, micro insults, and others.

• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)​
  
• California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC)
  
• WestEd
  
• Zero To Three
  
• National Institute for Early Education Research
  
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment  

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ECE Higher Ed Focused Websites

Blogs

• PEACH - An Early Childhood Higher Education Collaborative
• California Community College Early Childhood Educators (CCCECE) 
• Child Development Training Consortium (CDTC)
• California Early Childhood Mentor Program
• ACCESS ECE 

• Teacher Tom Blog
• Free Technology for Teachers 
• ​Faculty Focus

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Social Media Resources

Tony Thurmond Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tony.thurmond/ 
Distance Learning Educators Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/tony.thurmond/

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Funding and Grant Resources

Workforce Research

Early Educator Investment Collaborative 

• National Institute for Early Education Research
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• Quick Guide: Who are California's teachers?  ​Article 

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Online Resources for ECE Teachers

​ECE Children's Programs

• Vooks - Vooks is a kid-safe, ad-free streaming library of read-along, animated storybooks. 
• National Emergency Library a temporary collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed
• EPIC - Epic is the leading digital library for kids 12 and under

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