Early childhood education programs

The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 658G(b)(1), by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: (A) offering training, coaching, or professional development opportunities for child care providers that relate to the use of evidence-based, developmentally appropriate and age-appropriate strategies to promote the social, emotional, physical, adaptive, communication, and cognitive development of children, including key programmatic strategies, and offering specialized training for child care providers caring for those populations prioritized in section 658E(c)(2)(Q), and children with disabilities;; and (2) in section 658P— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through (15) as paragraphs (10) through (16), respectively; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following: (9) Key programmatic strategies The term key programmatic strategies means strategies related to— (A) nutrition and physical activity; (B) recommended practices for age-appropriate exposure to screen media; and (C) the integration and utilization of instructional methods to assist learning across disciplines, including methods that use the arts, language, literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies..