Pre-school and kindergarten

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 thinkingand 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 early years are a magical time when curiosity and creativity blend into learning and discovery.

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

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 don't 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.

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!

When you bend yourself into a letter shape or have an alphabet phone conversation, learning to read is FUN.

Featuring one hundred well-loved and easily available children's books, Starting with Stories has more than 1,500 activities to actively engage every learning style.

From clean-up solutions to storage ideas to inventive cost-cutting strategies, and everything in between, this book will truly help you keep your sanity in the classroom!

Portfolios, in the educational context, are collections of childrens school work which teachers collect during the year--art projects, writing, etc.

Filled with movement activities, games, fingerplays, chants, and songs, Teachable Transitions transforms necessary transitions into pleasurable moments that children look forward to!

Easy Daily Planshas everything a teacher needs for a complete years worth of daily plans!

This engaging, exciting introduction to early math concepts will be a sure-fire hit with young children.

The games in this book provide benefits for the whole child, meaning each game benefits all three domains of child development: cognitive, social/emotional, and physical.

In preschool, children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family.

The Complete Resource Bookis perfect to use as a planning guide or as a resource for responding to childrens specific interests.

This is the perfect book for teachers who have typically developing young children ages 3-6, as well as children with special needs in their classrooms.

A must-have for every teacher, Block Play enhances every preschool and kindergarten classroom's block corner with over 50 great activities.

The classroom environment is vital for children to get the most out of learning experiences.