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Profiles of Significant Schools: Schools for Early Childhood. |
Focuses on the creation of learning facilities for two-, three-, and four-year-old children. It illustrates graphically two types of facilities: 1) new centers that were specifically constructed for... |
08/31/1970 |
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Property Manager's Child Care Resource Book 2007. |
Provides maintenance and operations guidelines for managing General Services Administration (GSA) child care centers within the same standards and level of a GSA operated facility. Areas covered... |
12/31/2006 |
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Prototype: Enhanced Modular Childcare Facility. |
Presents a prototype modular early childhood facility, featuring the rotation of one modular of a 3-modular unit to break up the repetitive, boxlike nature typical of modulars. The turning of one... |
12/31/2002 |
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Public Health Emergency Preparedness in the Setting of Child Care. |
Discusses child care emergency preparedness, offering recommendations for consultants working with child care providers. The complexity of emergency preparedness in child care calls for the... |
12/31/2003 |
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Quality Indicators for Preschool Facilities. Recommendations of the Early Care and Education Coalition |
Series of indicators for facilities housing preschool programs that would meet the needs of three and four year olds. These guidelines provide a starting point for an assessment of current preschool... |
07/23/2000 |
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Recommendations for Child Care Centers |
Part of a seven-volume series on children's environments, guide includes 115 patterns for large, medium, and small child care centers in neighborhood and work-place settings. Many of the... |
12/31/1993 |
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Recommendations for Early Childhood Facilities Standards |
These recommendations to New Jersey's Commissioner of Education by an early childhood subcommittee are for the construction and renovation of Abbott preschool classrooms. These standards provide... |
12/31/2003 |
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Redeemer Lutheran Preeschool. |
Describes the award-winning design of this McLean, Virginia, addition that doubled the size of the school, but was built while school was in session. A list of design and construction participants,... |
12/31/2004 |
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Redefinition of Space and Equipment in the Kindergarten and Involving the Children in the Process of Designing. |
This research examined the extent to which 2.5- to 5-year-old children in three Kindergarten classrooms in Thessaloniki, Greece could be taught about the use of classroom space and equipment. The... |
09/06/1995 |
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Referral List of Architects with Child Care Facilities Development Experience in California. |
The list is divided into three regions: Northern California, Central California, and Southern California, and by county within each region. Architects generally will work outside their county, and... |
08/31/2008 |
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Removing Barriers to Childcare Facilities Development. |
Uses interviews and visits to child care centers to discuss conceptual, design, legal, and funding obstacles to childcare facility development. Architects, developers, and child care consultants... |
12/31/1992 |
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Researching Children's Understanding of Safety: An Auto-Driven Visual Approach |
Safe learning spaces allow children to explore their environment in an open and inquiring way, whereas unsafe spaces constrain, frustrate and disengage children from experiencing the fullness of... |
12/31/2010 |
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Right-sizing for Tikes. |
Describes the design process of the nation's largest public preschool noted for its classroom flexibility, an environment suited for the needs and safety of children, ample play space,... |
04/30/1998 |
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Riley Child Development Center and Family Learning Center. |
Describes this center for pre-school and adult literacy, featuring a family atmosphere and adjacency to the elementary school it feeds. Building statistics, a listing of the design and construction... |
04/30/2005 |
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Risk Management, Preschools, and Young Children. |
Addresses reduction of environmental risk to school children, with particular attention to very young and pre-school ages. Advice on managing risks presented by furnishings and equipment, class size... |
05/31/2008 |
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Room Arrangement. Beginnings Workshop |
Workshop articles address the importance of room arrangement in early childhood settings: Creating Environments that Intrigue and Delight Children and Adults (Wendy Shepherd and Jennifer Eaton); 3... |
08/31/1997 |
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Rules for the Licensing of Child Care Facilities. |
Section XIX of this document is entitled Environment and Safety, and covers early childhood facility and premise conditions, space standards, safety consideration, HVAC, lighting, furnishings,... |
12/31/2004 |
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Schools for Early Learning Offer Pre-K Classes and Child Care. |
Describes the design of a prototype school that was used to create four free-standing full-day facilities. The designs were deemed successful in terms of security, stimulating learning environment,... |
12/31/2004 |
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Schools to Scale: Learning Environments for Young Children |
In designing preschool and elementary school projects--new structures, renovations, and additions--three factors are vital to successful design for young children: protection, interaction, and scale... |
09/30/1999 |
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See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell and Love. |
Recommends a variety of spaces for different experiential possibilities in early childhood education, advocating flexibility that can accommodate different activities and student densities throughout... |
03/31/2005 |
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Sense of Place in Child Care Environments. |
The exterior design of existing preschool environments is evaluated in the context of contemporary writings by architects focusing on creating designs that nurture children's emotions. Sense of... |
05/31/2007 |
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Simply Sensational Spaces: A Multi-S Approach to Toddler Environments |
Presents guidelines for providing suitable play and learning spaces for children from birth to 3 years old. Argues that toddlers have developmental needs different from those of older preschoolers,... |
04/30/1998 |
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Site Planning and Layout |
Examines five issues related to child care facility design: (1) siting the building, outdoor play, and service areas; (2) creating favorable microclimates; (3) developmentally appropriate play yards... |
12/31/1997 |
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SmartTiles: Designing Interactive Room-Sized Artifacts for Educational Computing. |
Describes educational computing accessories designed as moderate- to large-scale objects or furnishings with which children can interact. Also described is a working prototype of one such system... |
12/31/2004 |
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Societal Values and Policies May Curtail Preschool Children's Physical Activity in Child Care Centers |
Nine focus groups with 49 child care providers (55% African American) were assembled from 34 centers (inner-city, suburban, Head Start, and Montessori) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three main barriers to... |
01/03/2012 |
