Schools and pre-schools

Connecting with dual language learners (DLLs) is a growing reality among early childhood educators, who need to learn practical, proven strategies to reach these students.

Children need a broad view of the world to better work with others and achieveacademic success.

A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life.

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?

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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?

Build the home-school connection to prepare for kindergarten!

Banish Boredom helps parents find activities that they enjoy, while their children learn and have fun.

Learning about shapes has never been so much fun!

The author of the best-selling book Transition Time brings you more attention-grabbing, creative activities to turn potentially stressful transitions into fun learning experiences.

Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems.

Excerpted from the national best-seller Preschool Art, MaryAnn Kohl brings you 50 great ways to paint using vegetable dyes, corncobs, cornstarch, shoe polish, and more.

Play is learning!

With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, theEncyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource!

Most preschool teachers have musical instruments in their classrooms, but may not realize they can use them for science explorations.

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills.

Teach children ages birth through two with these 300 activities focused on the incremental development of young children.

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

Award-winning author, Jackie Silberg, encourages bonding between you and your baby in the third edition of Games to Play with Babies.

Explore connections between math and everyday life with your child!

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

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.

Using the latest brain research to explore and explain differences in how boys and girls learn, this informative resource provides early childhood educators tools to make the way they teach and their classrooms more boy friendly.

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

Math crops up in everyday activities in so many ways.

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

Young children are naturally interested in their world.

Teachers know how important it is to develop children's fine motor skills as a stepping stone to future learning.

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.

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

The children in todays early childhood classroom are more culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse than ever.

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

The activities in this book reflect childrens real world math experiences--counting candles on a birthday cake, sorting and classifying toys, making sure there is a one-to-one correspondence between children and cookies.

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

With quick and simple ideas, 101 Easy, Wacky, Crazy Activities is guaranteed to enliven any day.

Caregiver-child interactions are critically important in promoting cognitive, language, and social-emotional learning in young children.

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?

Jump into Math is the perfect way to turn childrens love of active games into learning opportunities!

Babies are naturally active, and their movements help them explore their environment.

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.

Children learn best through hands-on exploration, observation, and discovery.

Speaking to the need to move beyond traditional formulations, this textbook presents radical visions for transforming civic education in the United States.

What do you get when you combine a large appliance box, a garbage bag, tape, a craft knife, and markers?

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!

What Does a Lion Say?

Aimed at teachers and leaders looking to create greater impact on teaching and learning through the use of digital technology in schools, From EdTech to PedTech translates research on the effective integration of digital technology in education into relevant, accessible, and practical guidance for teachers and school leaders.

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children.

Preschoolers tend to be social beings.

Learn to teach character traits to your studentsThe Organized Teacher's Guide to Building Character, a comprehensive resource that will help you implement character education into your lesson plans.

Critical Analysis of Parental Involvement in School presents in-depth explorations of parental involvement within culturally distinct contexts.