Educating Young Children Volume 1 - Summer 2025 | Page 19

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We highly encourage Affiliates to host virtual bus tours. There are so many beautiful programs to visit and people to learn from. It’ s important to see the different ways that high-quality programming can look and to encourage each other to strengthen early education throughout our communities. If you want more information, please contact Carrie Rafalski at goaeyc @ gmail. com.

Photographs: p. 18, courtesy of GOAECY; carousel, courtesy of Messiah Lutheran Child Care Center and Little Ones Preschool Copyright © 2025 by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. See permissions and reprints online at NAEYC. org / resources / permissions.