-The revised Early Learning Goals -Observational assessment -Effective ongoing assessment processes, including evidence and documentation, supported by Development Matters -Recording children's learning and development -Use of the EYFS Profile for transition to Year 1
Nancy grew up in Belleville, Illinois amidst a houseful of books and with a menagerie of animals, including two horses. She has been an elementary school teacher and a professor of education. Having lived in London for ten years, she was a consultant at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
Nancy is the bestselling and award-winning author of the four Bella and Britt Series books for children, including Sea Turtle Summer, Mystery of Manatee Key, Bella Saves the Beach and One Pelican at a Time Nancy and Pelican were featured in the PBS Tampa special, GulfWatch, after the Deepwater Horizon Spill of 2010 and about which Pelican was written.
Katrina and Winter: Partners in Courage, is the authorized biography of Katrina Simpkins, the young girl who formed a special bond with Winter, the Dolphin.
Beulah Land is Nancy's award winning Young Adult novel, published in 2017. It earned an Indies Honorable Award, which stated in part, "Nancy Stewart has produced a tough, courageous novel that belongs on the shelf next to young-adult survival stories like Hatchet and Bridge to Terabithia."
MG novel, Me and the Missouri Moon will be launched June 9, 2024 (Monarch Press).