While current education policy emphasizes academic achievement, it is argued that social-emotional learning (SEL) and cognitive abilities are important foundations of early academic success.
How can early childhood teachers, administrators, and parents translate discoveries on early brain development into strategies that nurture cognitive growth?
Drawing on the authors' combined expertise in both occupational and speech and language therapy, this essential guide is designed to empower teaching staff in their mission to create inclusive learning environments that support every child.
Optimized for iPad 1 Take an unforgettable adventure into The Rain Forest where children discover amazing animals and their secret letters hidden in the forest.
Created from previously-published material in the existing Piggyback Songs Series, this title features songs that focus on events and activities young children experience on a daily basis.
This second edition to the best-selling Please Don't Sit on the Kids offers positive, insightful advice to teachers looking for new ways to manage behavior in the early childhood classroom.
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an assessment of the reading comprehension of students in their fourth year of schooling.
This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers' agency, peers' agency and parents' agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes.
Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schoolstakes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K8 education.
Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schoolstakes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K8 education.
This new and updated edition of Characteristics of Effective Early Learning focuses on how children learn which is just as important as what they learn.
Der Klimawandel, das Artensterben, die Pandemie, und das Erstarken demokratiefeindlicher Tendenzen stellen frühkindliche Pädagogik in evangelischen Kindertageseinrichtungen vor neue Herausforderungen.
In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time.
Written expressly for preschool teachers, this engaging book explains the whats, whys, and how-tos of implementing best practices for instruction in the preschool classroom.
Comprehensive and user friendly, this ideal professional reference and graduate text provides a developmentally informed framework for assessing 3- to 6-year-olds in accordance with current best practices and IDEA 2004 guidelines.
This concise, accessible book explores the connection between language acquisition and emergent literacy skills, and how this sets the stage for later literacy development.
Weave a tapestry of play and learning in your early childhood education practicesThe Original Learning Approach is a new reflective practice inspired by Reggio Emilia that allows children to learn and play naturally and at their own pace and can be applied to any pedagogical method, philosophy, or context.
Creating your Earth-Friendly Early Chlidhood Program, Redleaf Quick Guide offers an approachable, efficient entry point for ECE educators who wish to instill ecofriendly values and practices in their programs.
After working in the field of early childhood education extensively, Jill McFarren Aviles and Erika Amadee Flores concluded that coaching educators from a holistic, culturally responsive, and strength-based perspective are three of the most powerful tools that will enhance the lives of young children and their families and contribute to equity in early childhood settings.
In Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children, the newest addition in the Redleaf Press Quick Guide series, award-winning educator Vicki Carper Bartolini offers practical suggestions and resources for rethinking your early learning environment with a focus on STEM, using the Reggio Emilia approach lens honoring a student-centered, self-guided curriculum based on principles of respect, responsibility, and community through exploration and play.
