School-to-Home Connections

Encouraging children’s individuality and uniqueness

Celebrating diversity

Supporting children’s development across key domains

Nurturing in nature

Addressing challenging behaviors

Transitioning to a new class or school

Cathryn O’Sullivan is a consultant in early childhood development. She has worked in a number of areas in the field including as the founding principal of Bloom Early Childhood Centre of Excellence, Jamaica, a laboratory preschool of The University of the West Indies Open Campus; a curriculum developer, researcher, and teacher trainer. She has a Masters of Education in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Spanish from Macalester College. Early Childhood Educators Children are the heart of meaningful family engagement.   
Children are the inspiration for positive family-provider relationships that are essential for promoting healthy child development and learning.  
 
School-to-Home Connections is bursting with ideas for early childhood educators. Inside, you’ll find simple ways to explain developmentally appropriate practice to parents, ideas on partnering with them on their child’s journey to school readiness, and tips for nurturing families’ active involvement in the school community. Along the way, you discover information on:

Understanding the power of play

Encouraging children’s individuality and uniqueness

Celebrating diversity

Supporting children’s development across key domains

Nurturing in nature

Addressing challenging behaviors

Transitioning to a new class or school

 
Each chapter includes suggestions for connecting parents with the classroom, the program, and the wider school community. When parents and teachers partner, children thrive! 
 
Cathryn O’Sullivan, EdM, has served as a consultant with and developer of the Caribbean Child Development Centre, The University of the West Indies lab school. She earned her masters of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a certificate in project leadership from the Cornell University College of Engineering, and a certificate in the science of effective early childhood education from the Georgetown University Center on Health and Education.