Pre-school and kindergarten

Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover-making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM.

There are so many fun things to do in Mr.

Use this step-by-step guide to becoming an effective and successful child care director or administrator in todays early childhood education environment.

Discover how to support high-functioning and collaborative teacher teams in early childhood programs by developing healthy and confident team leaders.

Improve young childrens language, social-emotional, and number sense development with effective developmentally appropriate teaching strategies in story retelling.

Understand the important milestones of development in children in five developmental domains: physical and motor, social and emotional, communication and language, cognitive, and approaches to learning.

Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges.

Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity.

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens.

Use the updated activities, examples, and research to improve your anti-bias and multicultural education programs.

Updated information and unbiased, developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays.

Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back.

Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide.

Starting with Character focuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos.

Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play.

Discover why playing is school readiness with this updated guide.

This second edition of Parent-Friendly Early Learning brings to life real scenarios that care providers face in today's world.

Physical play is vital to young children's development.

Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program.

Family childcare homes provide care for hundreds of thousands of children every day.

Developmental milestones mark the significant progress children make throughout their early years.

This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers.

The Comfort of Little Things is a thought-provoking book that empowers educators to give themselves and the people in their lives second chances in order for themselves and the children they teach to learn and thrive.

All adults who are responsible for the care of children should be prepared for disasters.

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practicethe success of children they teach depends on it.

Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood is an inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, play, and learning in a way that enhances teachers' thinking and understanding at the same time.

Maurice Sykes has made advocating for and advancing high-quality early childhood education his lifes work.

Parents will appreciate Creating a Beautiful Mess because it's fun and helpful.

Ooey Gooey Tooey is the highly anticipated sequel to The Ooey Gooey Handbook.

Excite young learners with this collection of more than 80 simple science experiments.

A biographical history of the evolution of Developmentally Appropriate Practice, written by best-selling early childhood author David Elkind, PhD

There's a lot of conversation in the early childhood community on evaluating teachers to improve their performance.

Let children experience the learning power of playtogether!

In every classroom, there is a person who cares about the way children learn, grow, and feelthe teacher!

Everyone is talking about signing with young children.

Noah knew he was different.

Understand the value of connecting animals and childrenFrom family pets and wild animals to toys, stuffed animals, and media images, animals are a central part of every childs landscape.

Make digital photography an important part of your early childhood program!

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?

Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program.

Let children experience the learning power of play!

Create a warm and inviting place where children feel at home.

Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovationLoose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play.

Working with two- and three-year-olds is an important job, one that will influence childrens lifelong learning.

Bullying is a widespread and concerning issue that affects children of all ages.

Learn the skills and best practices to make receiving visits more productive and worry-freeAs a family child care professional, you nurture and teach children during their most formative years.

Does your afterschool program have the WOW factor?

The foundation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education begins in the early years.

Support and guide exceptionally bright children while creating richer, inclusive learning environments for all children in early childhood classrooms.

Intentional teaching begins with focused observations and systematic documentation of children's learning and development.