Early Childhood Education Journal

Article	Citations
Math on the Brain: Seven Principles from Neuroscience for Early Childhood Educators	125
Teacher Burnout, Student-Teacher Relational Closeness, and the Moderating Effect of Work Stress Focused Supervision	77
Practitioner and Director Perceptions, Beliefs, and Practices Related to STEM and Inclusion in Early Childhood	72
Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions of Children’s Learning: Above and Beyond the Impact of Semi-Structured, Inclusive Motor Play Activities	59
Exploring Current State Writing Evaluation Rubrics for Early Grades	51
Enhancing Swedish Toddlers’ Learning Opportunities Through Interactions with Pictures and Narrative Designed for Numerical Learning Purposes	48
Parental Beliefs and Knowledge About Dual Language Learning and Education (KnDLLE) Predict Children’s Spanish and English Experiences at Home	47
Additive Effect, Feasibility, and Cost-Effectiveness of Family Engagement Activities that Supplement Dual Language Preschool Instruction	46
Preparation of Early Childhood Special Education Personnel: Alignment with Personnel Preparation Guidance	33
With-In Child Protective Factors Among Rural Head Start Children	33
The Effect of a Teacher-Guided and -Led Indoor Preschool Physical Activity Intervention: A Feasibility Study	32
Preschool Teachers’ Knowledge, Understanding, and Beliefs Regarding Children with Speech Sound Disorders and Inclusion in the General Education Setting	29
Early Childhood Intervention under the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Characteristics and Recruitment Practices of Service Providers	29
Examining the Relationships Between Kindergarteners’ Demographic Characteristics and Behavior Problems Across Geographic Locale	29
Exploring the Characteristics of Self-Drawings Produced by Taiwanese and South Korean Children	28
Music Uses in Preschool Classrooms in the U.S.: A Multiple-Methods Study	25
The Ready to Learn Through Relationships (RLR) Program: Development, Feasibility, and Acceptability	23
Changes in Stress Following Wage Increases for Early Childhood Educators	22
Young Children’s Nutrition During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: A Comparative Study	22
Young Children’s Experience in Unplugged Activities About Computational Thinking: From an Embodied Cognition Perspective	21
Teaching Financial Literacy in Early Childhood Classrooms	21
Cross Cultural Caregiver Perceptions of Challenging Behaviors and Responses	19
Early Head Start Teachers’ Perception of Coaching Experiences	18
Distance Learning in Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Crisis: Family and Educators’ Experiences	18
The Effect of Emotional Labour on Job Dedication Among Early Childhood Teachers in the UAE: The Mediating Role of Teaching Self-Efficacy	18

The Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of a Caregiver-Implemented Naturalistic Communication Intervention	18
Teaching Early Writing: Supporting Early Writers from Preschool to Elementary School	17
Comparing Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergarten Then and Now: What Data from Two ECLS-K Cohorts Reveal About Changes in Demographics and Child Outcomes	17
Links between Duration of Early Childhood Education Participation and School Readiness Domains: A Study with Malaysian Public Preschool Children	17
Dictating and Acting Out Stories: A Pathway to Writing for Preschoolers	17
The Well-Being of Early Childhood Providers in Ireland	17
Exploring Primary Grades Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Students’ Mathematics Self-Efficacy and How They Differentiate Instruction	16
Learning Together Through Shared Book Reading: Experiences of Burmese Refugee Mothers and Their Preschoolers	16
A Convergent Mixed Methods Study to Explore Physical Activity Among Teachers and Children During the Preschool Day	15
“That’s a Big Bad Wolf!”: Learning through Teacher-Child Talk During Shared Reading of a Story Book App	15
The Language We Use: Providers’ Perceptions About Families	14
Caring for the Carers: The Intersection of Care and Mindful Self-compassion in Early Childhood Teaching	13
Exploring an Ethic of Care as a Way to Enhance Agency in Early Childhood	12
Chinese Kindergarten Teachers’ Proactive Agency in Job Crafting: A Multiple Case Study in Shanghai	12
‘I Can Create and Eat it for Snack’: How Can Cooking Activities Support Early Math Learning?	12
Learning the Rules: Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Involvement During Their Children’s Transition to Kindergarten	12
Wishful LINKing: Authentic Environmental Measures Aligned with Programmatic Purposes	12
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Not Necessarily, for the Phonological Awareness of Young Children	12
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Using Projected Images and Videos in Attempted Play-responsive Science Teaching	12
A Successful Kindergarten Transition for Children with Disabilities: Collaboration Throughout the Process	11
The Effect of a Physically Active Academic Intervention on the Physical Fitness and Mathematical Performance of Grade 1 Learners in Cape Town, South Africa	11
‘I Can Kind of Flow How I Want to Flow’: Motivations and Perceived Contrasts of Providing Care in Home-Based Settings	11
Examining Coaching Skill Development During Preservice Teachers’ (PSTs) Internships	11
“Essential One Day and Forgotten the Next”: Perceptions of Ohio’s Early Childhood Workforce on Their Exclusion from the Educator Phase of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution	11
School Readiness Beliefs: Comparing Priorities of Early Childhood Teachers and Immigrant Latine and Chinese Parents	10
A Qualitative Exploration of Early Childhood Educators’ Declared Practices when Supporting Preschoolers’ Oral Language Development	10
Revisioning Fairness as Social Justice in Early Childhood Education	10
Assessment of Parent–Teacher Relationships in Early Childhood Education Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Adoption of Pedagogical Documentation in Finnish ECEC Settings	10
The BabyTok Project: Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Light-Touch Social Media Project for Infant–Toddler Teachers	10
Early Mathematics Instruction and Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	10
Work Demands and Work Resources: Testing a Model of Factors Predicting Turnover Intentions in Early Childhood Education	9
Examining Kindergarten Children’s Numerosity Estimation Skills	9
An Examination of Suspension & Expulsion in Community Childcare Centers Two Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
“What we have done is baking together”: Asian Immigrant Parents’ Perspectives and Experiences Regarding Children’s Mental Health Related to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Preschool Teacher Demand in China by 2050: A Prediction Analysis of the Impact of Negative Population Growth	9
Supporting Social Play of Preschoolers With and Without Autism: A Collaborative Approach for Special Educators and Speech Language Pathologists	9
Parental Ethnotheories of Child Play: The Discrepant Perspectives and Practices Among Chinese Parents	9
The Reading Builds Empathy Pilot Survey: Picturebooks for Empathy Development	8
Improving Teacher Health and Well-Being: Mixed Methods Outcomes Evaluation of the Be Well Care Well Program	8
Asset-Based Computational Thinking in Early Childhood Classrooms: Centering Students’ Expertise in a Community of Learners	8
Shared Picturebook Reading in a Preschool Class: Promoting Narrative Comprehension Through Inferential Talk and Text Difficulty	8
Face Masks and Emotion Literacy in Preschool Children: Implications During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Effects of a Video Feedback Intervention on Sensitivity in Early Childhood Teachers in Chile	8
Early Childhood Science Teachers’ Epistemic Orientations: A Foundation for Enacting Relational Care Through Dialogue	8
Trauma: Early Childhood Special Education Teachers’ Attitudes and Experiences	8
The Effect of Interactive Picturebook Reading on Problem-Solving Skills in Preschool: A Quasi-Experiment	8
Understanding Canine-Assisted Literacy Programs: A Multiple Case Study	8
Correction: Empowering Young Writers: A Multimodal Case Study of Emergent Writing in Urban Preschool Classrooms	8
Preschool Engineering Play on Nature Playscapes	8

Suspension and Expulsion: Early Educators’ Perspectives	7
Who Gets to Decide? A Case Study Exploring Tennessee’s Early Childhood Literacy Initiatives	7
Process Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia: A Systematic Literature Review	7
Best Practices for Preschool Music Education: Supporting Music-Making Throughout the Day	7
Developing Young Children’s Physical Literacy Through Picturebooks	7
Parental Involvement in Children's Online Education During COVID-19; A Phenomenological Study in Saudi Arabia	7
Exploring Parental Perceptions of Early Childhood Education Among Spanish-Speaking Latinx Families	7
Oopses on the Page: A Content Analysis of Children’s Picturebooks Featuring Mistakes	7
Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in a “Childcare Desert”	7
Exploring Predictors for New Kindergarten Teachers’ (NKTs’) Integration in the Workplace	7
Phonics-Based Instruction and Improvement in Foundational Reading Skills of Kindergartners in the Indian Schooling Context	6
Children’s Literature as a Channel for Social-Emotional Learning: Reading Israeli Children’s Literature Written in Arabic and Hebrew	6
Read with Me, I will Learn Words: Effects of an Interactive Book Reading Intervention on First Graders’ Expressive Target Vocabulary	6
Prevalence of Number, Number Relations, and Number Operations Indicators in State Early Learning Standards	6
Investigating Informational Text Read-alouds in Greek Kindergarten Classrooms: Differences According to Text Structures	6
Understanding the Intersection of Early-Childhood Education and Social Factors that May Contribute to the Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline	6
Infusing Physical Activity into Early Childhood Classrooms: Guidance for Best Practices	6
Pentagon or “Five-Angle Shape”? Exploring the Effects of Shape Names on Young Children’s Geometric Shape Knowledge	6
Examining First-Graders’ Developing Understanding of Place Value via Base-Ten Virtual Manipulatives	6
Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Teachers from Pakistan and the US	6
Teacher Use of Digital Stories to Promote Reflective Practice Supportive of Migrant and Refugee Children’s Sense of Belonging	6
A Social Turn-Taking, Parent Mediated Learning Intervention for a Young Child with Autism: Findings of a Pilot Telehealth Study	5
Data Use for Continuous Instructional Improvement in Early Childhood Education Settings	5
Correction: Children’s Concepts of the Environment: An Opportunity for Environmental Education as a Tool for Sustainability in Botswana Preschools	5
Shared Reading and Science Vocabulary for Kindergarten Students	5
I Felt Like I was Going Crazy: Understanding Mother’s and Young Children’s Educational Experiences at Home During COVID-19	5
Effect of Problem Behaviors on Early Literacy Skills: A Malaysian Experience	5
Promising Findings that the Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators’ Program (CHIME) Strengthens Early Childhood Teachers’ Emotional Resources: An Iterative Study	5
Can Pre-school Children Learn Programming and Coding Through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking	5
Distance Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey: Identifying the Needs of Early Childhood Educators	5
The Effect of Growing Up WILD™ Training on Early Childhood Professionals’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions Toward Outdoor Education	5
Training Early Childhood Educators to Promote Children's Physical Activity	5
A Systematic Review of Parents’ Experiences during their Child’s Transition to School	5
Mathematical Ability at a Very Young Age: The Contributions of Relationship Quality with Parents and Teachers via Children’s Language and Literacy Abilities	5
Implementing Social-Emotional Learning in the Elementary Classroom	5
Early Childhood Education During the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Perceived Changing Roles of Preschool Administrators, Teachers, and Parents	5
Missing Early Education and Care During the Pandemic: The Socio-Emotional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Young Children	5
Adding the Tswana in Botswana: Writing Culturally Sustaining Informational Texts	5
Teacher-child talk in Shared-book Reading with Preschoolers: Linkages between Teacher Questioning and Child Responsiveness	5
Shifting to Remote Learning During COVID-19: Differences for Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education Teachers	5
The Impact of COVID-19 on Families’ Home Literacy Practices with Young Children	5
An Integrated Approach to Social and Emotional Teaching (SET): A Qualitative Study of the Beliefs and Practices of Preschool Teachers in the United States	4
Correction: Impact of an EFL Digital Application on Learning, Satisfaction, and Persistence in Elementary School Children	4
Exploring Parents’ Utterances During Free Play in Hong Kong: The Associations with Language Complexity and Lexical Diversity	4
Variation in State Early Childhood Lead Educator Qualifications: Pre-service Versus In-service Qualification, Professional Organization, and Geographical Proximity	4
Development and Validation of the Children’s STEM Habits of Mind Questionnaire	4
Exploring Parents’ Perceptions of Early Intervention Services: A Multi-State Study	4
The Association Between Early Childhood Teachers’ Metacognitive Awareness and Science Teaching Efficacy in Head Start Settings	4
Fostering Play in the COVID Crisis: Insights from Infant-Toddler Teachers	4
Effects of Early Childhood Teacher Knowledge and Feedback on Children’s Early Mathematical Development in German Kindergartens	4
Teacher Motivational Scaffolding and Preschoolers’ Motivational Triggers in the Context of Playful Learning of Multiliteracy and Digital Skills	4
A Mixed Methods Study of the Relationship Between Individualized Lesson Planning and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Young Children	4
The Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: Research and Resources for Children, Families, Teachers, and Teacher Educators	4
Using Games and Activities to Increase Inhibitory Control Skills in Kindergarten-aged Children	4
Correction: Fostering Play in the COVID Crisis: Insights from Infant-Toddler Teachers	4
“Children Have the Fairest Things to Say”: Young Children’s Engagement with Anti-Bias Picture Books	4
Preschool Children’s Agency in Play-activities with Science Content	4
University-Community Partnerships to Support Responsive Caregiving: The Hearts and Minds on Babies Implementation Story	4
What Do Teachers Do When Preschoolers “Misbehave”? Family Matters	4
Partnering with Parents in Early Childhood Services: Raising and Responding to Concerns	4
An Opportunity for Our Little Ones: Findings from an Evaluation of an Aboriginal Early Childhood Learning Centre in Central Australia	3
Supporting Children Through Grief: A Content Analysis of Picturebooks About Death	3
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Teachers’ Read-Aloud Selections	3
Stereo-atypical: An Investigation into the Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotypes in Primary School-Aged Children	3
Early Childhood Teachers’ Beliefs About Creativity and Practices for Fostering Creativity: A Review of Recent Literature	3
Developing Emotional Intelligence in Children Through Dialogic Reading, Self-made Books, and Visible Thinking Routines	3
Early Childhood Educators’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Link with Psychological and Economic Wellbeing	3
Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions of Physical Activity: A Scoping Review	3
‘The Kids. That’s My Number One Motivator’: Understanding Teachers’ Motivators and Challenges to Working in Early Childhood Education	3
Engaging Young Children in STEAM Learning: An Inquiry Planning Guide for Early Educators	3
Constructing Closeness in Educational Collaboration in Extended Hours ECEC	3
The Mimamoru Approach in Contemporary Japanese Parenting Magazines: Strategies for Disciplining Young Children	3
Helping Parents Support Their Preschool Children’s Learning and Development Through SMS Messages: An Australian Pilot Study	3
Cause for Concern? The Relationship Between Language Skills in Toddlers and Later Reading Skills in School	3
The Implications of COVID-19 for Early Childhood Education in Ethiopia: Perspectives from Parents and Caregivers	3
Strategies for Successful Dental Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	3
A Case for Humane Education for Children in India: Historical Roots and Contemporary Needs	3
“Could that be Play?”: Exploring Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Play in Kindergarten	3
Screen Time Policy in Alberta Childcare Centres	3
Supporting Young Readers: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Literacy, Behaviour, and Perceptions When Reading Aloud to Dogs or Adults	3

Context Matters: Factors that Influence Storytime Providers’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Self-Efficacy	3
Child Care Centers Licensing Standards in the United States from 1981 to 2023	3
The Association Between Early Childhood Education Professionals’ Perception of Workplace Spirituality and Their Intention to Stay in Their Current Program	3
COLLTS: A Promising Interactive Read-Aloud Intervention for Three-Year-Old Dual-Language Learners	3
Narratives of Care: Portrayals of Care in Pura Belpré Awarded Texts for Young Readers	3
A Review of the Cognitive and Social-Emotional Correlates of Multilingualism: Implications for Multi-Language Learning Motivation	3
Supporting Inclusion in Early Childhood Through Itinerant Service Delivery: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Remixed Recipes and Mimicked Mentor Texts: Reading Young Children’s Play(Giarism) as Complex Scenes of Early Writing	3
Professionalization and Professionalism: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)	3
The Other Side: Preschool Children’s Experience of a Read-Aloud Focused on Social Justice	3
Exploring Children’s Play Culture and Game Construction: Role of Sociodramatic Play in Supporting Agency	3
Bilingual Students’ Meaning-Making Strategies When Exploring Wordless Picturebooks in Interactive Shared Reading	3
Communicating Climate Change Risk to Children: A Thematic Analysis of Children’s Literature	3
Creating Positive Lived Experiences in Schools for International Relocatee Parents and Their Children	3
How Teachers Use Data: Description and Differences Across PreK Through Third Grade	3
When Seeing is Believing: A Framework for Reflective Conversations in Remote and Face-to-Face Coaching Approaches	3
Association Between Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Rural Children’s Cognitive Outcomes: Indirect Relations with Early Care and Education Quality	3
Preservice Teachers’ Online Teaching Experiences During COVID-19	3
Beyond Open-Ended: Tools to Explore Questions and Power during Decision-Making with Families	3
Through Their Cultural Lens: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Mexican Immigrant Families’ Experiences with the Transition to School	3
The Impact of Oral Language and Transcription Skills on Early Writing Production in Kindergarteners: Productivity and Quality	3
Prekindergarten Teachers’ Perspectives on Classroom Environments and Barriers to Optimal Learning Spaces	3
The Impact of Family Resilience in Promoting School Readiness for Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences	3
Physical, Mental, and Financial Stress Impacts of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Educators	3