Texas Tech Child Development Research Center

It’s that time of year again! Please consider ordering your personalized labels from Mabel’s labels and support the CDRC in the process!

The Texas Tech Child Development Research Center is partnering with Mabel’s Labels! Mabel’s Labels are personalized, durable, waterproof labels. They are great for everything on your Back to School list! You can customize them with your name and a design, and they are dishwasher and laundry safe. This is a great way to ensure your items don’t end up in the lost & found!

To order your labels, visit campaigns.mabelslabels.com and search Texas Tech Child Development Research Center.

Thank you for supporting us!

The CDRC is looking for one more special individual - an engaging, passionate, and professional teacher to begin August 2024.

At the CDRC our teachers provide quality care and early education to our children through play-based experiences, and real-life, hands on learning opportunities, fostering a life-long love of learning! In this role, teachers have the opportunity to design their own lessons, build relationships with children, families, and an amazing group of professionals as well as to learn and grow in their careers.

With a mission to provide quality care and early education, foster a life-long love of learning, advance research across disciplines, and support professional development in all fields related to children and families, you would be a part of something special.

Apply today!
Requisition 36937BR– Infant and Toddler

Link to posting and application (search by requisition number or position):
https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5635

We need your help! We are in need of moving boxes. We will be installing new flooring in a few of our spaces and need to move items out of the area for the time being. Please let us know if you can help! You may drop boxes off at the CDRC M-F between 8am-5pm. We can also pick-up. We appreciate your help!

Committed, flexible, empathetic, organized, understanding, culturally sensitive, collaborative, passionate, creative, kind......those are just a few words that can be used to describe our preschool cohort. Amanda, Casey, Emma, and Jordaine - we are thankful for you today, this week, and at all times!

"Children learn more from who you are than what you teach" - anonymous. What a lucky group of 2's and 3's we have to Alyssa, Amy, Ashton and Gracie as their teachers! These amazing teachers work everyday with our most passionate children helping them learn about who they are and how the world works. Thank you for all the many ways you give of yourselves everyday!

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week - Let's celebrate our Infant Cohort! Gillian, Lauren, Rickay, and Trinity, we are thankful for how you lovingly care for the tiniest members of our family.

Infant teachers are the first to show children that they can be loved unconditionally by people in addition to their parents. They are talented, confident, and kind.

Thank you, teachers. You give us a million reasons to say thanks - not only this week but every day!

The Child Development Research Center at Texas Tech University is seeking engaging, passionate, and professional teachers. At the CDRC our teachers provide quality care and early education to our children through play-based experiences, and real-life, hands on learning opportunities, fostering a life-long love of learning! In this role, teachers have the opportunity to design their own lessons, build relationships with children, families, and an amazing group of professionals as well as to learn and grow in their careers.
With a mission to provide quality care and early education, foster a life-long love of learning, advance research across disciplines, and support professional development in all fields related to children and families, you would be a part of something special.
Apply today!
We have openings for an Infant and Toddler teacher as well as a teacher of Preschoolers!

https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hr/workattexastech/

Our 2024 Marjie Collins Early Connections for Lifelong Learning Conference was a success!! We had a day full of learning! Thank you to our volunteer presenters and our wonderful sponsors!
H-E-B- for sponsoring our boxed lunches - so yummy.
Lakeshore Learning - for providing our morning breakfast and fabulous door prizes.
7 Brew Coffee (on University across from TTU) - for providing gift cards for presenters!
Lillie's Bridal Boutique - for your generous support of the CDRC and this conference.

Come visit us on Saturday, April 6th, at the Quality Day of Play! Childcare providers from the Lubbock community will have booths set up with materials for children to explore. This event is free and open to the public! Invite your friends.

The CDRC has so much going on this week!

**All day Thursday the 21st - enjoy a meal and Blue Sky on 4th street and raise money for the CDRC - just tell them you are there with the CDRC!

**This Saturday the 23rd the CDRC is hosting our 6th early childhood conference (see attached flyer) for local PreK ISDs, Head Start, Early Head Start, child care providers, and parents. Check out the list of conference sessions – WOW! Its not too late to register - https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/cdrc/workshop.php

STEAM Camp is back with our very own, Patty Vierling! This summer will include a 2 week option. See https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/cdrc/camp/steam.php for more information!

Eat at Blue Sky on 4th street any time on Thursday the 21st! Just mention the CDRC when ordering and they’ll donate part of your ticket!! Easy Peasy! Share with everyone you know!

The CDRC is participating with the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences to create promotional material regarding the applicability of the lab courses.
Are you a former ECE or HDFS student who took the labs? We are looking for people who graduated to work in the field of teaching and for those that did not! Would you be willing to speak to how your time in the CDRC helped prepare you for your professional life?

Make plans now to join us for our 2024 conference!!
Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/aCawxCTLbb