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Swimming with Sharks
July 1, 2025University of Delaware’s interdisciplinary research team pilots innovative K-12 engineering curriculum at The College School Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a c …
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Nurturing the whole child
March 6, 2025UD’s Early Learning Center celebrates 20 years of excellence in early childhood education and community partnership This academic year, the University of Delaware’s Early Learning Center (ELC) celebrates 20 years of excellence in early childhood educat …
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Empowering UD Student-Parents
December 19, 2024CEHD helps UD student-parents pursue their education through childcare scholarships for their children For many parents across the nation, a lack of access to affordable, high-quality childcare — especially for children under the age of 5 — prevents th …
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Excellence in Early Care and Education
August 14, 2024University of Delaware’s Early Learning Center partners with families, communities and the state of Delaware to offer excellent and equitable early care It is one of the largest and most robust early childhood education centers in the state. It is also …
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Grandmother of Juneteenth
November 22, 2021At 89 years old, Opal Lee, a retired teacher, counselor, community activist and organizer, decided she had not done enough. Yes, she had planned and celebrated Juneteenth in Fort Worth, Texas for more than 40 years. But now it was 2016, and many Americ …
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UD’s Early Learning Center Reopens
September 3, 2020Teachers and children return with new coronavirus screening and cleaning procedures The University of Delaware’s Early Learning Center is once again open for children. Despite the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, UD’s only full-day early educat …
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Art alumnus brings campus to UD’s youngest students
July 9, 2019Many artists may aspire to see their work hanging on a wall for public view, but for University of Delaware alumnus Matt Terranova, his work often is the wall itself. Since graduating in 2006 from the visual communications program in the Department of …
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Edible Forest Garden
June 24, 2019UD students learn and help staff teach children where food comes from On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. …
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Family Workshops at the ELC
April 24, 2019The Early Learning Center recently wrapped up a series of family workshops which included; Supporting Math at Home, Reading with Young Children and Getting Ready for Kindergarten. The workshops were presented by the Delaware Readiness Teams to ELC fam …
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ELC Celebrates Diversity with first Multi-Cultural Family Fair
February 9, 2019This past Thursday, the ELC celebrated diversity by providing the opportunity for families to share their voice. Families could participate in a variety of ways. Some families shared their culture by designing family flags with their children at home …
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