The current version of developmentally appropriate practices (Bredekamp and Copple, 1997) was approved by the board of NAEYC in 1997 and focuses on three developmental principles as relevant to early childhood professional practice: children’s ages, their individual differences, and their home language and culture. The revised version of DAP continues to reflect a constructivist orientation and directs teachers’ (and parents’) attention to children’s need to make meaning from their experiences. It wisely cautions against either/or approaches that pit child-initiated against teacher-directed curricula. As Chapter 5 of this report emphasizes, research suggests that many teaching strategies can work, and no teaching strategy is sufficient for all purposes. The key is for a teacher to be attuned to the child’s current level of development and developmental challenges, and to select from a toolkit of possible pedagogical approaches one that complements the learning opportunity in question.