Pre-school and kindergarten

You may have noticed out-of-school-time care is burgeoning.

The Handbook of Moral and Character Education offers a definitive, state-of-the-art synthesis of leading scholarship in moral and character education.

This invaluable resource helps K-3 teachers deal with restless, energetic students including those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

303 Preschooler-Approved Exercises and Active Games is written specifically for children ages 2-5 years old.

Gender is complicated and nuanced.

Thoughtfully created learning centers are bubbling with opportunities for active learning.

Every child belongs.

Nature is not simply what we teach.

Loose parts.

Develop children's problem-solving and critical-thinking skills?

Whether you are a teacher looking for ways to strengthen the math learning in your early childhood classroom, an educator in a community of practice who wants to learn more about teaching math in developmentally appropriate ways, or a teacher-educator who wants to offer students an easy-to-use reference and guide for helping young children develop their math competencies and skills, this text will help you make math learning a fun and worthwhile activity in your setting.

Rebuild, Recover, and Reopen You can't stop a disaster from happening, especially when Mother Nature is the force behind it.

The child-care industryessential to American families and to the American economyis at risk of complete collapse.

What can you add to your early childhood classroom that will immerse children in rich learning, reduce challenging behaviors, and develop confidence as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills?

Now that you've identified the market need for high-quality child care and you've taken the first steps to building your practice, what's next?

Storms, flooding, earthquakes, epidemics, tornadoes, fire.

In the United States, the number of children who come from homes where they speak languages other than English is rising.

Sure, you know that children learn best through hands-on explorations.

Children are expected to read, write, count, and sit still at younger and younger ages.

Every day, 250 children are suspended from school.

Finding the right people to staff your center is challenging!

The authors of the acclaimed book From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers bring educators another go-to infant and toddler resource in Crying and Laughing: The Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers.

The Basics of Starting a Child-Care Business,the first book in The Business of Child Care series, walks readers through each step of planning, developing, and launching their own child-care business.

No education professional wants to think about an active shooter on campus.

Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems.

The Power of Presence: A Guide to Mindfulness Practices in Early Childhood is written for today's educators who feel pressured by unrealistic demands, are overwhelmed by the daily chaos of early childhood teaching, and seek to find peace in their classrooms.

Communities of practice are an age-old phenomenon representing teamwork.

Organized by month, with a special section just for toddlers, you will find easy-to-do song-related activities that span the curriculum in areas such as math, art, and language.

In a complex and changing landscape of scarce funding, high turnover rates, and differing views about priorities, the early childhood profession needs an anchor.

You've probably seen it: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become insufferable, indifference breeds throughout the school.

Professional development is important, but early childhood professionals get just as bored, worn out, and disengaged from learning as their younger counterparts do.

Resource books often provide tips and tricks for managing challenging behaviors, but what happens when those tactics dont work?

Take a fresh approach to community service and giving back.

Because their vocabularies haven't yet caught up with their thoughts and emotions, young children often struggle to communicate.

Rhyme, rhythm, and music are essential parts of a quality early childhood program.

While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing.

Young children are born scientists with an innate desire to analyze and investigate the world around them.

Child-care environments play an important role in how babies, toddlers, and two-year olds experience learning.

Preschool is a time of wonder when curiosity, development, and learning intersect.

When was the last time you got down on your hands and knees to see your classroom from a child's height?

Children are spending less timebeing outside in nature, playing,imagining, and learning abouttheir surroundings.

Packed with opportunities to build confidence and to enhance language, coordination, social interactions, and problem-solving skills, Games to Play with Two Year Olds is a must-have for anyone caring for a child between the ages of two and three.

Environments are a complex interaction of physical elements, including sensory components, design and organization, aesthetics, nurturing attributes, and pedagogical resources.

How do children learn about the world around them?

The Complete Resource Book for Infantsis a collection of experiences and activities that maximize learning and development for children from birth to eighteen months.

Organized by topic, each of the 20 units has a 5-day plan, providing a week of activities.

The tools you need to teach literacy are all around you!

Art Across the Alphabet contains art-centered activities for children ages three to six to reinforce letter recognition, build phonemic awareness and pre-reading skills, and associate reading with FUN!

Science and math concepts are embedded in the things children do every day.

Literacy Play is chock-full of creative dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing childrens imaginations to life!