How our work connects to NAEYC

Each toolkit, recipe and Idea bank card ends with a short line naming the NAEYC standards it connects to. The numbers below show what each one means.

These connections describe our own content. TREE Studio is not affiliated with or endorsed by NAEYC.

Program Standards (2025)

1. Relationships
2. Families and Community
3. Curriculum
4. Teaching
5. Assessment
6. Health
7. Physical Environment
8. Professionalism
9. Leadership and Management

From NAEYC, Early Childhood Program Standards, adopted February 2025.

DAP guidelines (2020)

1. Creating a Caring, Equitable Community of Learners
2. Engaging in Reciprocal Partnerships with Families and Fostering Community Connections
3. Observing, Documenting, and Assessing Children's Development and Learning
4. Teaching to Enhance Each Child's Development and Learning
5. Planning and Implementing an Engaging Curriculum to Achieve Meaningful Goals
6. Demonstrating Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator

From NAEYC, Guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Action, from the 2020 position statement.

Professional Standards (2020)

1. Child Development and Learning in Context
2. Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections
3. Child Observation, Documentation, and Assessment
4. Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
5. Knowledge, Application, and Integration of Academic Content in the Early Childhood Curriculum
6. Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator

From NAEYC, Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators, 2020.