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Fresno State volition present the caller PK-3 Early Childhood Education Specialist Instruction Credential (PK-3) programme successful May 2025 to hole educators for the unsocial developmental needs of students successful transitional kindergarten (TK) done 3rd grade. With this caller program, the assemblage volition go 1 of six aboriginal puerility acquisition credential programs approved successful California.
Research continues to illuminate the important interaction of aboriginal puerility education, particularly erstwhile provided for children earlier entering kindergarten. Beginning successful the 2025-26 world year, cosmopolitan pre-kindergarten volition beryllium disposable for each 4-year-old children and their families successful California acknowledgment to authorities signed by the politician successful 2021. The enlargement of aboriginal acquisition strives to amended academic, wellness and nonrecreational outcomes aboriginal successful beingness for students crossed the state, specified arsenic higher graduation and employment rates.
The caller credential programme joins existing azygous subject, aggregate taxable and acquisition specializer teaching credential programs offered astatine Fresno State, which prepares two-thirds of each teachers successful Central California. PK-3 credential holders volition lend to the enhancement of aboriginal acquisition and conscionable the anticipated summation successful request passim the authorities for TK teachers.
The programme volition stress research-based practices for developmentally and culturally due acquisition portion leveraging important aboriginal puerility acquisition resources accumulated done the Kremen School of Education and Human Development astatine Fresno State.
The assemblage presently provides learning experiences done Fresno State Programs for Children for implicit 200 children annually (ages 3 months to 12 years) crossed 3 centers connected campus. The D. Paul Fansler Institute for Leadership successful Early Childhood Education offers workshops and conferences connected aboriginal puerility acquisition to hundreds of students and assemblage members each year.
The PK-3 credential programme has been developed successful concern with the California State University Chancellor’s Office, the Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, Early Care and Education Department and successful collaboration with assemblage colleges and different acquisition agencies to pass programme content.
The exertion for the caller teaching credential programme volition unfastened connected Feb. 1. Additional programme details are disposable astatine fresnostate.edu/pk3.
For much accusation astir the PK-3 Early Childhood Education Specialist Instruction Credential program, interaction 559.278.0300 oregon kremenschool@csufresno.edu.
