Early Childhood

Creativity is the Skill of the Future

December 18, 2019 By Growing Sound

Forbes.com published a great article by Anna Powers identifying “Creativity” as the skill of the future. Powers looks at technology as a major driving force to our world today, but it is the following few lines that speak the most to us here at GROWING SOUND. “Ultimately a computer lacks imagination or creativity to dream [Read More…]

Filed Under: Character Science, Education Tagged With: Child Development, Children, Creativity and Kids, Early Childhood, Educational Music, Growing Sound, Music and Learning, Music for Teachers, Music in the Classroom, Positive Psychology, Social & Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional, Social-Emotional Development, Songs for the Classroom

Grit and Resilience in Babies

April 10, 2018 By Growing Sound

The 74 recently published an article titled “What You Never Realized You Were Teaching Your Child About Grit & Resilience: MIT Study Captures Techniques That Work for Babies as Young as 13 Months”. The article, written by Kate Stringer talks about the results of a recent study by MIT Graduate Student-Julia Leonard. Ms. Leonard was [Read More…]

Filed Under: Educational Research, Social-Emotional Learning Tagged With: Angela Duckworth, Child Development, Dr Carol Dweck, Early Childhood, Grit, Growing Sound, Growth Mindset, Infant Development, Infant/Toddler, Parenting, resilience, Social & Emotional Learning, Toddler

Why Preschool is the Most Important Year In a Child’s Development

January 17, 2018 By Growing Sound

A recent article published on September 15, 2017 on Mindshift penned by Deborah Farmer Kris does a great job of highlighting the value and importance of publicly funded PreK programs-but most importantly that “QUALITY” is what really matters. You can read through the full article here, but pay close attention to the last paragraph about [Read More…]

Filed Under: Education, Educational Research, Professional Development Tagged With: Child Development, Children, Early Childhood, Education, Educational Music, Growing Sound, Mindshift, Music and Learning, Music for Teachers, PreK, Professional Development, Social & Emotional Learning, Songs for the Classroom, Teacher, Teacher Training

Revisiting “Self-Control”

January 9, 2017 By Growing Sound

Back in January 2016, MINDSHIFT published an article by Katrina Schwartz titled “Research-based Strategies to Help Children Develop Self-Control”. It’s always a good idea to revisit articles on self-control (especially after a busy holiday season). This article talks about the research of Walter Mischel and his well-known body of work called “THE MARSHMALLOW TEST”. Check [Read More…]

Filed Under: Education, Educational Research, Music Tagged With: Child Development, Childrens Music, David Kisor, Early Childhood, Education, Educational Music, Mindshift, Music and Learning, Music for Teachers, Music in the Classroom, Preschool, Self-control, Social & Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional, Songs for the Classroom, Teacher, Walter Mischel

Introducing New Music Project for Foster and Adoption Families

December 19, 2016 By Growing Sound

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New Music Project for Foster/Adoption Families Covington, KY, December 15, 2016-GROWING SOUND, an award winning children’s music publisher that creates songs based on the latest research in social and emotional development is pleased to announce the release of their newest music CD: MY HAND IN YOUR HAND: Songs for Families Who Reach [Read More…]

Filed Under: Consumer Products, Education, Music, News Tagged With: adoption, Child Development, Children, Childrens Music, David Kisor, Early Childhood, Education, Educational Music, Family friendly, Family Music, foster child, Growing Sound, Kids Music, Music, Parent, Parenting, Parents, resilience, Social & Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional

Teachers: What words do you use to encourage a child’s efforts?

December 5, 2016 By Growing Sound

New teachers often struggle with their first experiences during “report card” season. Report cards help communicate a students’ progress. Finding the right words can make a difference not only in encouraging the child, but encouraging the parent as well. Writing unique and meaningful report card comments takes effort. If only negative statements are written, the [Read More…]

Filed Under: Education, Educational Research Tagged With: Child Development, Early Childhood, Education, Growing Sound, Leah Davies M. Ed., Music and Learning, Report Cards, Social & Emotional Learning, Teacher

Finally! Head Start gets funding for Social Emotional Learning

September 21, 2016 By Growing Sound

We’ve been so patient waiting to get the word and now it is here! NPREd is reporting that a big move is coming to Head Start and much of it involves funding for social-emotional learning. At Growing Sound SEL is our key focus! We have great songs and resources that can make a big impact [Read More…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Child Development, Childrens Music, David Kisor, Early Childhood, Early Childhood Learning, Early Head Start, Education, Educational Music, Government Funding, Growing Sound, Head Start, Infant Development, Infant/Toddler, Music and Learning, Music for Teachers, Music in the Classroom, Preschool, Social & Emotional Learning, Social and Emotional, Songs for the Classroom, Toddler

Well-Doing + Well-Being for Children

November 13, 2014 By Growing Sound

Growing Sound Research Director, Tom Lottman, was recently invited to be a special guest blogger for Psychology Today with his article titled “Well-Doing + Well-Being for Children/The Missing Connection In Education. We are so proud to share this article and Tom’s great insight. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-matters-most/201411/well-doing-well-being-children

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Children, Early Childhood, Education, Growing Sound, Inc, Positive Psychology, Psychology Today, Ryan M. Niemiec, Tom Lottman