Education Group Hosts Free Film Screening

The Lehigh and Northampton Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children (PennAEYC) will be hosting a film screening and panel discussion of No Small Matter. The feature length documentary being shown on Thursday, May 16, at 6 pm at The Grand Eastonian, 140 Northampton St., Easton, PA, is built from stories of real children, families, and teachers, illustrating the impact of high-quality early childhood experiences.

The Lehigh and Northampton Chapter of PennAEYC’s mission is to provide an organization where early childhood professionals can come together to share and explore ways to meet the needs of children that they work with in early care and educational settings.

Members in this organization work together to improve professional practice and working conditions in early childhood education, and to help build public support for high-quality early childhood education programs. The film is firmly grounded in science, opening up the “black box” of what’s happening inside children’s brains with exciting, stimulating animation and the voices of compelling scientists, physicians, and early childhood education experts. Using findings from message framing reports (Frameworks Institute), behavioral economists such as James Heckman, and the latest research in brain imaging and child development, the movie breaks down complicated scientific details into layman’s terms, demystifying prevailing ideas that hinder our thinking about children’s behavior, paving the way for us all to see what children need more clearly. When it comes to understanding the incredible dynamism of how a child’s mind develops, seeing is believing — from firing neurons to still face experiments — and these illustrations drive home the critical nature of these early years.

The screening is free and open to the public, but requires a ticket to be admitted. To get your ticket please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/o/lehigh-and-northampton-chapter-of-pennaeyc-19828817867