DID YOU KNOW? ECERS-3

Children’s Institute works with over 200 early childhood classrooms in the Rochester City School District through our RECAP program. One aspect of RECAP is training and classroom program observations for three- and four-year-old students in EPK and UPK classrooms using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3) to measure program quality. ECERS-3 is a comprehensive tool outlining requirements for best practices in early childhood classrooms.

You Are Doing Everything Right!

Dear Parents and Primary Caregivers: Ask yourself these three questions right now...

A Message to Our Partners

Local to global communities are now contending with an infectious agent that momentarily lays beyond our collective control as it can readily take a life. Yet, in all times and in all communities, intent to positively care for one another and our relationships is how we each routinely give life.

Jonathan Trost - Nominated by A. Dirk Hightower

Mary Anne Peabody - Nominated by Lynn Smith

Patricia Leo - Nominated by Dianne Cooney Miner

Susan Gorin - Nominated by Debbie Johnson

Ann Marie White Community Update Address

Community Update 2020

This past January, Children’s Institute hosted their bi-annual Community Update with a theme of ‘Coming Together.’

Read Along Videos and Character Development - Learning SEL at Home