Schools and pre-schools

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.

Learning to closely observe children requires commitment to systematic study and ongoing practice.

Examine the work of five groundbreaking education theoristsJohn Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotskyin relation to early childhood.

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activitiesChildren living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning.

Explore the unique and expansive learning opportunities offered by gardening with childrenGardens are where childrens imaginations engage nature, and the result is joyful learning.

A strong comprehension of early childhood theory is fundamental to early childhood educators' abilities to make informed decisions about the ways they support children's development and learning.

Learn how to reach children who need special help.

Filled with information to effectively market a family child care program and maximize enrollment and income, Family Child Care Marketing Guide provides dozens of marketing tips and inexpensive ideas.

Rethinking Nutrition provides science- and practice-based information to meet young children's nutritional and developmental needs and establish healthy patterns with food.

Making the transition into kindergarten is a significant and exciting milestone in young children's lives.

Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.

Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook.

Help children participate in purposeful play to promote the development of a number of important skills.

Many curriculum books treat teaching as something teachers do to or for children.

The outdoors is full of rich learning experiences for preschool and pre-kindergarten children.

More than one hundred math activities for young children that incorporate early learning standards.

An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work.

"e;Roots and Wings will open doors to beginners in cultural diversity education, and will enrich the more experienced readers.

Learning to Lead combines theory and practice with important topics such as human development, diversity, anti-bias, and social change.

All childcare professionals were children once, and how their parents responded to their emotional expressions affects how they respond to emotional expressions by children in their own care.

What do you really know about how children learn?

In 1949, as postwar Texas was steadily becoming more urban and calls for education reform were gathering strength throughout the state and nation, State Representative Claud Gilmer and State Senator A.

Get prepared to teach in a child-care or preschool setting with The Everything Book for Child Care and Preschool!

Encourage a love of learning in students in grades PK-1 with Early Learning Thematic Lesson Plans!

Middle school, the formative years in which students reach puberty and start the massive, life changing alterations that will determine who they are, is one of the hardest times for any new teacher to start their career.

This book deals with the specific joys and pitfalls you will encounter when teaching adolescents.

According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, nearly half of teachers leave the profession after five years.

This book contains valid, real-world copyright questions posed by real-life educators-all answered by a knowledgeable and experienced school attorney.

Written in clear, simple language, this book provides information that will help an aide or paraprofessional manage a school library.

This text offers a teacher and student-friendly collection of lessons and activities that help educators use picture books to engage younger students in meaningful social studies activities and bring this critical subject back in elementary schools.

This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons.

This holistic guide explains how school librarians and teachers can successfully integrate relevant health concepts and life skills throughout the curriculum for students K through 12.

This invaluable collection of activities and strategies will empower teachers to help students who are struggling with math.

Enhance your library instruction class by using this hands-on guide and learn numerous unique active learning exercises.

Here is the essential guide for librarians and teachers who want to develop a quality, curriculum-based graphic novel collection-and use its power to engage and inform middle and high school students.

This comprehensive step-by-step guide provides practical guidance to implement literature circles in any social studies or language arts classroom.

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing.