Consulting

Rae has provided early childhood education consulting for such organizations as:

• Sesame Street Research Department
• Head Start Bureau
• Centers for Disease Control
• Nickelodeon’s Blues Clues
• Hasbro, Inc.
• Mattel
• Nike
• Chicago Children’s Museum

Rae has written:

• a fitness program for Gymboree Play & Music
• a physical fitness curriculum — Go Smart — for National Head Start Association (for which she trained trainers in its use)
• CATCH Pre-K, an early childhood physical education curriculum for Flaghouse
• movement and music activities produced by High Reach Learning
• activities for Play with a Purpose
• the movement, music, and dramatic play activities for Pebble Soup, a curriculum produced by Children’s Television Workshop and Rigby Publishers
• online early childhood courses for Northwestern State University and ChildCare Education Institute

Other Projects Include:

• helping faculty at Miami University, Ohio, “re-tool” in early childhood issues, as necessitated by changes in Ohio’s pre-service standards
• serving on the National Association for Sport and Physical Education task force that created national guidelines (Active Start) for physical activity for children birth to age five
• at the request of the Kellogg Company, writing a booklet of movement activities for parents and children to do at home
• conducting webinars for Head Start Body Start and North Dakota Child Care Resource & Referral
• advising the Canadian Broadcast Corporation on a television program inspiring preschoolers to be physically active