05/2023 JT-ECE Newsletter- Inspiring Teacher-Child Interaction Opportunities
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About Our Newsletters
OhioGuidestone’s Institute of Family and Community Impact is all about helping to make school even more enJOYable! Each month the Institute of Family and Community Impact, an OhioGuidestone initiative releases research Newsletters to explore our innovations closely. We want to communicate our projects, innovations, and other happenings while strengthening our relationship with the community in an accessible manner. Read the May Joyful Together Early Care Education (ECE)- Teacher-Child Interaction Opportunities Newsletter below.
About Our JT-ECE- Inspiring Teacher-Child Interaction Opportunities Release
Joyful Together is an evidence-based program that limits toxic stress in children while enhancing childhood resiliency and adding positive childhood experiences. Joyful Together uses play to enhance relational health through everyday moments between children and early childhood care and education professionals. This program equips early childhood educators and administrators with tools to implement the model into routines within early childhood education centers and classrooms.
Joyful Together Early Care Education is a groundbreaking initiative that focuses on nurturing children’s emotional well-being and fostering positive teacher-child interaction opportunities. By incorporating play-based activities and emphasizing the importance of healthy interactions, JT-ECE aims to create a supportive environment that encourages children to thrive. In this Newsletter we explore Joyful Together Early Care Education- currently funded by Starting Point and the J.M. & H.W. Stielau Foundation.
Sneak-Peek Inside the Joyful Together Early Care Education Newsletter
- Exploration of Joyful Together Early Care Education
- May Reading Corner: In this release we introduce you to our book Joyful Together for Early Childhood Educators. Joyful Together is the Institute’s research-based model that builds childhood resiliency and reduces toxic stress in children by enhancing student-teacher bonds with joyful play. Joyful Together ECE provides easy-to-do activities for Early Childhood Educators and explores the importance of joy, play, and relationships to early childhood brain development.
- Community Resources: Remember we work with the communities we serve! In each Newsletter release you will find some resources that might be of help to you or someone you know!
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Payten Kleinhenz B.S., CDCA is a Behavioral Health Specialist IV at OhioGuidestone. As a former Research Analyst at the Institute of Family and Community Impact, she helped lead applied clinical science & research communications. She authored department written content such as newsletters and reports, social media posts, and articles by prioritizing evidence-based, research-backed writing and reader accessibility. She also managed research data through data collection, entry and storage. Payten graduated with a B.S. in Sociology from Western Carolina University in May 2022. Her sociological background drives her passion for dismantling systemic and structural barriers. Payten’s primary research and professional areas of interests include substance use disorders, and family/social ties in the context of power relations and structures.