Name: We Are Who We're Waiting For
Brand: Kisa Marx
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Carol Garhart Mooney

Theories of Attachment

$29.95

In this book, early childcare professionals will gain an understanding of the theories of attachment as well as the background and research of the prominent minds behind them. This book explains the core elements of each theorist’s work and the ways these elements impact and support interactions with babies, including the topics of bonding, feeding practices, separation anxiety, and stranger anxiety.

Carol Garhart Mooney, also the author of the best-selling Theories of Childhood, has worked as a preschool teacher and college instructor of early childhood education for over thirty years.

Carol Garhart Mooney

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition

$29.95

Understand theories of childhood to make your days with children smoother, your job easier, and your program stronger.

This best-selling resource provides clear, straightforward introductions to the foundational theories of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky. Each chapter highlights a theorist’s work and includes insight on how the theory impacts teaching young children today. Discussion questions and suggested readings are included to help you gain an understanding of what it means to apply each theory to your work with children.

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition:

Builds the bridge between theory and best practices in early childhood education
Supports your genuine enjoyment with children by helping you understand more about the ways they grow and learn
Includes new understandings of Vygotsky’s work
Applies the five theories to the realities of the twenty-first century

Carol Garhart Mooney has been an early childhood educator for more than forty years. She is also the author of Theories of Attachment, Use Your Words, and Swinging Pendulums.

Kisa Marx

We Are Who We're Waiting For

$29.95

Bring transformative change to early childhood education.

We Are Who We’re Waiting For bridges rigorous research with actionable tools for change, delving into child development theories that go beyond the basics, centering on humanity, children’s rights, and intersectionality. Widely respected author Kisa Marx calls for a transformative approach to dismantle systemic barriers and advocates for practices that genuinely center each child’s identity, culture, and potential, turning personal resolve into a broader call for systemic change in early childhood education.

Through personal narratives and heart-centered storytelling, each chapter guides readers through deconstructing, reconsidering, redefining, and reimagining early childhood education practices. The book provides a rich source of case studies, theoretical insights, and practical applications that promote equity and inclusion in early childhood education, making it an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners alike.

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Deb Curtis

Designs for Living and Learning, Third Edition

$49.95

Children thrive in spaces designed for living and learning.

Dream big for your early childhood environment, beyond rating scales, regulations, and room arrangements. Designs for Living and Learning has been a favorite resource among educators and caregivers for more than two decades, and this new edition is packed with even more ideas that can be used as you create captivating environments that nurture children, families, and staff while supporting children's learning. With hundreds of colorful photographs of real early learning settings and a multitude of simple and practical concepts for creative indoor and outdoor spaces and learning materials, this book truly is a source of inspiration as you learn how to shape welcoming spaces where children can learn and grow.

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Connie Bergstein Dow

One, Two, What Can I Do?

$39.95

Creative dance is a great way to stimulate children’s minds and muscles. With more than one hundred activities and two accompanying CDs of music by Debbie Clement, One, Two, What Can I Do? makes it easy to incorporate lively movement into your day. Each activity is an enjoyable way for children to engage in physical activity and establish lifelong healthy habits, which is especially important with children’s increasingly sedentary lifestyles and rising childhood obesity rates.

This collection of movement activities, all reflecting common early childhood curriculum themes, enhances children’s physical, social and emotional, kinesthetic, and cognitive learning during greetings, transitions, circle time, large-motor skill development, and quiet-down and good-byes. There are even ideas for dance and music presentations for families and friends. No previous dance experience is neededeach age-appropriate movement activity includes step-by-step directions, sample script to help you guide children, modifications for children with special needs, and tips to maximize learning. All you need to do is start moving!

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Carol Garhart Mooney

Theories of Childhood, Revised and Expanded Third Edition

$32.95

Understand theories of childhood to make your days with children smoother, your job easier, and your program stronger.

This best-selling resource provides clear, straightforward introductions to the foundational theories of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, and Janice E. Hale, as well as discussion of attachment theory. Each chapter highlights a theorist's work and includes insight on how the theory impacts teaching young children today. Discussion questions and suggested readings are included to help you gain an understanding of what it means to apply each theory to your work with children.
Theories of Childhood, Third Edition, builds the bridge between theory and best practices in early childhood education to support your genuine enjoyment with children by helping you understand more about the ways they grow and learn.

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Kirsten Cole

Teaching for Love and Justice

$27.95

Build a more just and loving early childhood program. Based on the latest research on race and early education, Teaching for Love and Justice: Learning About Race and Racism Alongside of Young Children lays out a roadmap for educators who are striving to integrate anti-racist teaching into their programs. The book explores the critical role that early childhood educators play in supporting children’s healthy racial identity development and in addressing issues of racial justice. Drawing on interviews with twenty-seven early childhood teachers based in New York City and working in a variety of settings, including Head Start Programs, independent preschools, and public schools, the book offers vignettes from the teachers’ classrooms as well as their perspectives on the joys, challenges, and necessity in addressing these topics. Their insights provide readers with a framework and strategies for doing this vital and complex work well.

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Sharon Woodward

Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum, Third Edition

$44.94

Over 200 developmentally appropriate learning experiences to choose from. The Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum, third edition, provides the same user-friendly format you trust with new content and ideas for hundreds of creative and inclusive learning experiences. Activities are organized by age and developmental domain—physical and motor, cognitive, communication and language, social-emotional, and approaches to learning. This easy-to-use reference allows you to make choices based on the needs of the children in your care. The book contains a complete curriculum for a successful family child care program that promotes the healthy development of infants, toddlers, and preschool and school-age children in a caring, nurturing environment. The updated curriculum now includes: New sections on caring for school-age children before and after school and during school breaks. New research and best practices for supporting dual-language learners as well as children with diagnosed disabilities or additional support needs. Enhanced strategies and information for working with families and being culturally responsive. Enrich your program and support children’s early learning with best practices and activities designed specifically for family child care professionals.

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Miriam Beloglovsky

Revisiting Journeys

$39.95

Support each child in their journey of play and learning. Join bestselling author Miriam Beloglovsky and coauthor Jessie Frazier on a wonder-filled journey to understand children’s play and learning. Through the revisiting journey, children make sense of and give meaning to what they are learning. This journey is not linear or circular as children play and explore, then stop, then come back later and explore again in a different way. When we look closely, these complex journeys tell the story of each child’s learning. This book introduces a revisiting journeys framework to help educators understand these ways that children make sense of their learning and guide children in the next steps of their journeys. At the same time, it supports educators to create ecosystems that support messy revisiting journeys and to walk side by side with the children as they co-create their own journeys.

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Redleaf Press

The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2026

$21.95

This record-keeping system is the leading business tool for family child care professionals. It includes monthly expense charts, attendance and payment logs, mileage records, food program tallies, and detailed income tax worksheets, all making tax preparation easier and helping to reduce taxes. Also included are monthly nutritious recipes, activities, and helpful tips. With this calendar, all of the family child care professional's business-related records are organized in one convenient place.

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Angele Sancho Passe

Teaching Young Multilingual Learners

$19.95

Support Young Multilingual Learners to Flourish—in Every Language. Teaching Young Multilingual Learners clarifies the myths and realities, challenges and joys of language learning and teaching. Teaching in a program where multiple languages are spoken presents complexities and challenges, but being multilingual brings so many lifelong benefits to children. With practical and effective advice, this guide honors the linguistic and socio-cultural goals of language learning of all children, including children with disabilities and other support needs, by taking a diversity and equity perspective in the work of teaching and fostering positive relationships among children, families, and staff.

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Tom Copeland

Family Child Care 2025 Tax Companion

$21.95

Tom Copeland is the nation’s leading expert on the business of family child care. The Family Child Care 2025 Tax Companion is a comprehensive tool that will help tax preparers understand the unique rules that affect family child care businesses. Using this resource will increase your confidence in the tax professional who prepares your return, help you identify potential errors before your taxes are filed, and ensure that your tax preparer is claiming all allowable deductions. Once you fill out the worksheets in this book, give it to your tax professional to use as a guide as your tax forms are completed. This will help you ensure your business expenses are properly deducted.

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Tom Copeland

Family Child Care 2025 Tax Workbook and Organizer

$21.95

Tom Copeland is the nation’s leading expert on the business of family child care. As tax season approaches each year, thousands of family child care providers save time and money using the Tax Workbook and Organizers. The most comprehensive resource available, this book contains up-to-date guidance so family child care providers can accurately complete their own tax returns and take advantage of all the business deductions they are entitled to claim.

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Mike Huber

The Power in Pretend

$26.95

The Power in Pretend questions and sheds light on the ways children play with ideas of power.

Children’s play often tells a story of power through the roles they choose to play: exercising power over, power with, or power for peers, adults, or phenomena from the wider world. Most adults are comfortable with some roles children take on, such as dinosaurs, mothers, and firefighters. Other roles or types of play make adults uncomfortable at times, such as weapon or gun play, superhero play, or hyper-feminine princess play. Yet allowing and supporting these types of play is key to fostering children’s identity and agency. The book gives practical strategies for adults in early childhood settings to support this sense of power in pretend play and in real ways. It draws on an updated understanding of gender expression, as well as a nuanced approach to consent, and includes a contemporary understanding of the development of executive function skills and their impact on young children’s behaviors. The book also considers cultural influences on children’s play and adults’ reactions, as well as how peer interactions and play may be affected by differences among children.

Jessica Fong

Seeing Ourselves in Nature

$39.95

Discover the profound and joyous stories of Black and Brown nature educators.

In Seeing Ourselves in Nature, author Jessica Fong asks how educators in the United States who are Black, Indigenous, or other people of color can create space for predominantly BIPOC children and families to reconnect to nature. Recognizing the scarcity of stories from people of color in the predominately white literature surrounding nature education in the United States, Fong sought out thirteen other BIPOC educators to share their rich and profound experiences with young children in nature. Sharing these stories is a first step in the long road to making nature education equitable for all children.

In section one, educators work toward liberation and justice by actively pushing against the pushdown of academics on children of color.
In section two, community and cultural connections based in nature come to the forefront as educators share the importance of seeing Black and Brown faces in natural spaces both in real life and in the images found in books.
In section three, prose and poetry stories from Black women become radical by virtue of their simplicity as they connect the students and families they serve by centering their experiences with nature.
In section four, children harness their powerful curiosity and intrinsic motivation when interacting with nature.

Gaye Gronlund

Focused Observations, Third Edition

$39.95

New edition of foundational book on observation!

Intentional teaching begins with focused observations and systematic documentation of children's learning and development. Focused Observations, Third Edition, explains why observation is one of the best methods to get to know each child well, track progress, and plan individualized curriculum. It also provides tools and techniques to help you strengthen your observations, create portfolios with rich documentation, and support each child. You will also learn how to share your findings with families and grow as an observer through review and reflection activities. Learn answers to common questions about observation, including

Why should I use observation in my classroom?
What does effective observation and documentation look like?
How do I fit observation in so that it doesn't take away from teaching and interacting with children?
How do observation and documentation work with early learning guidelines?

Online videos with nineteen vignettes of children in action provide opportunities to practice observing children and capturing what you see. This updated edition includes new examples and provider anecdotes as well as fresh references and research.

Sally Fowler Haughey

Nurturing Brilliance

$26.95

Nurture children’s innate brilliance through play with acclaimed educator Sally Haughey.

Sally has distilled decades of research and experience to create the Play-Activated Learning model for understanding children’s play and learning. The Play-Activated Learning model gives educators and families an understanding of a child’s behavior in the classroom during free play, including the growth unfolding in the brain. It also offers a view of the role of the educator in supporting the child’s learning and development. The model explains the incredible unfolding and blossoming that happens during play and provides a science-based approach to communicating that growth and development to parents. It builds on a foundation rooted in your view of the child and progresses through four stages:

1. Permission, allowed by the educator's preparation of a yes environment

2. Choice, supported by the educator's noticing of play schema and urges

3. Repetition, elevated by the educator's facilitation of play invitations

4. Voice, understood through the learner's identity

The Play-Activated Learning model will illuminate the expert you already are and provide you with tools to explain why you teach the way you do, so that all well-intended parties can support the ultimate goal—children’s growth and learning.

Tom Copeland

Family Child Care 2024 Tax Companion

$21.95

Family child care providers can feel confident in their tax preparer with the help of this perennial resource. The Family Child Care 2024 Tax Companion is a comprehensive tool that helps tax preparers understand the unique rules that affect family child care businesses. Using this resource will increase your confidence in the tax professional who prepares your return, help you identify potential errors before your taxes are filed, and ensure that your tax preparer is claiming all allowable deductions. Once you fill out the worksheets in this book, give them to your tax professional to use as a guide as your tax forms are completed.

This will help you ensure your business expenses are properly deducted.

Hopi Lovell Martin

Learning from Doodoom Aki (Mother Earth) through Children's Land-Based Play

$36.95

Embrace the cycle of the seasons with children. Sit at the edge of the bush with Dr. Hopi Martin, Waabizheshi Oshkaabewis (Ojibwe Marten Clan Sacred Helper, Messenger, Fire Keeper, Lodge Caretaker) and educator, and bring a richer way of living with the land to the children in your care in this space of meeting between Indigenous and settler worldviews. Learn to consider child development and education more wholistically following an Anishinaabe Seasonal Pedagogy that has relevance to how learning happens for all Peoples and Nations. Listen to Dr. Martin’s lived experiences of learning from the land and her First Peoples with his own children and come into a deeper understanding of the natural pattern of children’s unstructured outdoor play as you learn to make connections and relationships with the land you live on.

This specific knowledge sits at the “edge of the bush,” the traditional domain of Waabizheshii Doodem (Marten/Provider/Warrior Clan), at the natural meeting place between Peoples/Nations around the Great Lakes of Mishiikenh Minissing (Turtle Island/North America). While this Bush Knowledge can only be learned by physically coming into relationship with this Sacred Territory between worlds, what is shared here is an introduction to the Seasonal Pedagogy and how it can guide educators and families back into relationship with the land through children’s unstructured, land-based play. Re-establishing these reciprocal and respectful relationships with ourselves, our families, our communities, our Nations offers a pathway towards truth and reconciliation with Doodoom Aki (Mother Earth), Dede Giizhig (Father Sky), and all of our relations in all Four Directions.

Learning from Doodoom Aki (Mother Earth) through Children's Land-Based Play

Tom Rendon

Creativity in Young Children

$34.95

Unleash the power of creativity for young children and yourself. Follow the authors of Cultivating Creativity in Young Children on a journey of curiosity as they unlock the secrets of creativity, deepening understanding of the what of creativity, its connections to child development, and how it shapes and is shaped by the people, communities, and world around us. Creativity is so critical to the way humans grow and learn that it should be at the center and not the periphery of early childhood education. When you nurture creativity and original ideas in children, you are providing them with everything they need for cognitive and social emotional learning. Featuring seven Big Ideas about creativity, case studies, and the authors’ personal stories, the book is a call to action to change how we raise, nurture, and teach our children to honor their innate creativity.

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Tom Copeland

Family Child Care 2024 Tax Workbook and Organizer

$21.95

Family child care providers filing their own taxes save time and money at tax season with this essential perennial resource.  As tax season approaches each year, thousands of family child care providers save time and money using the Workbook and Organizers. The most comprehensive resource available, this book contains up-to-date guidance so family child care providers can accurately complete their own tax returns and take advantage of all the business deductions they are entitled to claim.

The authors attend IRS seminars so you don’t have to!

Family Child Care 2024 Tax Workbook and Organizer

Sharon Woodward

Protecting Your Family Child Care Business

$21.95

Protect your family child care business from licensing issues. Respected family child care consultant Sharon Woodward brings years of regulation and policy experience to help you protect your family child care business.

Learn proactive strategies to prevent citations, allegations, and infractions, make home visits go smoothly, and ensure you understand the regulations and policies that apply to your program.
Understand your rights and know what to do if you are under investigation.
Discover ideas to help you build an enrollment or rebuild your enrollment and reputation following an investigation or closure.

Protecting Your Family Child Care Business

Lisa Agogliati

Actions of Play

$42.95

Understand play schemas to see inside children’s minds. Actions of Play builds on recent research and revelations about play schemas to transform understandings of play-based learning and project work in early childhood programs. Play schemas are the patterns of actions that play takes—transporting, enclosing, rotating, and more—the verbs of play rather than the nouns. The repetitive behaviors, play patterns, and play intentions of schemas facilitate children’s brain development and also help them make sense of their world.

Schemas take the place of noun-based topics in project work, increasing children’s creativity and complex thought. Schemas give educators insight into children as they work out problems and increase their understandings through play. The authors ask: How might we build a curriculum using play schemas? How might we interweave our children’s play with play schemas and create projects? Featuring gorgeous and abundant photos, Actions of Play shares the stories of their programs and their documentation and action research as play schemas became the bedrock of their curricula.

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Katelyn Clark

Play Stories

$24.95

Inform your teaching using your own play history. Play Stories invites early childhood educators to reflect deeply on their own childhood experiences and adult play and build their understanding of how their own identities shape their perspectives on children’s play. Katelyn Clark’s model for uncovering and telling play stories is revealed through four educators’ personal play narratives: the Puzzler, the Character, the Explorer, and the Maker. Writing the stories of their own play provides a new platform for educators to understand their play pedagogy from a more holistic perspective and to identify where they playfully shine in their classrooms, thus becoming more invested in the play of their students.

Jennifer J. Chen

Responsive Practice for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education

$26.95

Support Diverse Dual Language Learners through Reflective Practice. Responsive Practice for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education provides educators theoretical background and practical advice as they welcome an increasing number of dual language learners into their programs, to support these children to learn and flourish. Author Jennifer Chen shares case studies from her fieldwork with diverse early childhood classrooms, demonstrating her Four Cornerstones model of responsive practice while offering reflective questions to help educators implement it in their own contexts for children from birth to age eight who speak any language.

Learn to apply the Four Cornerstones model’s tenets of developmentally responsive, culturally responsive, linguistically responsive, and contextually appropriate practice in a variety of real-life situations, including while providing scaffolding for children, while building relationships with parents, and while working with children with a variety of needs. Suitable for work with any language.

Responsive Practice for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education

Redleaf Press

The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2025

$21.95

This record-keeping system is the leading business tool for family child care professionals. It includes monthly expense charts, attendance and payment logs, mileage records, food program tallies, and detailed income tax worksheets, all making tax preparation easier and helping to reduce taxes. Also included are monthly nutritious recipes, activities, and helpful tips. With this calendar, all of the family child care professional's business-related records are organized in one convenient place.

Carol Garhart Mooney

Choose Your Words

$24.95

When teachers are not precise in their communication, use idioms, or use sarcasm, children don't learn, or, worse, they experience confusion or embarrassment because they don't know what to do. This new edition of Use Your Words is infused with current research on communicating with young children and their families. The text considers change and current culture in the United States as it affects language and little ones in the context of 2017, while respecting universal pieces that continue to be helpful.

The new edition includes new and expanded examples viewed through a cultural, contextual, and chronological lens; a discussion of how today's media affects young children, especially exposure to traumatic events around the world; and consideration of the impact of social media, cell phones, and texting on family life and public education. It also addresses how to help young children whose home language is not English and respect differing parental expectations as we move from one socioeconomic or cultural group to the next.

Gigi Schweikert

Becoming a Team Player [3-pack]

$22.95

Being a team player is not always easy, but it is necessary as an early childhood professional. This three-pack of Becoming a Team Player workbooks helps educators and caregivers work more effectively with their colleagues to be part of a supportive work environment.

Ann McClain Terrell

Graceful Leadership in Early Childhood Education

$24.95

Graceful Leadership in Early Childhood Education is a book to turn to when there is a challenge that needs tackling, when you need a boost of inspiration, or when you just want to reflect on your own journey.

Ann shares a graceful approach to being a more capable and effective leader in the field of early childhood. Told in a narrative, inspirational, and practical way this book shares the values that the author has and has been able to hold onto in order to be successful. It shares how one woman maintained her grace and quiet dignity while on her leadership journey and overcame the challenges and hurdles that she faced. This is not a theoretical book but rather one that shows how theory/personal experience can be used and put into action.

Gigi Schweikert

Supporting Positive Behavior, Responding to Behavior, Guiding Challenging Behavior [Assorted Pack]

$21.95

A trio of workbooks with tips, and techniques to help early childhood professionals guide behavior and manage a classroom where everyone is given the opportunity to succeed.

Gigi Schweikert is a early childhood conference and seminar speaker. She is the author of several books and contributes to periodicals and journals.

Supporting Positive Behavior, Responding to Behavior, Guiding Challenging Behavior [Assorted Pack]

Nikki Darling-Kuria

Brain-Based Early Learning Activities

$29.95

Brain-based learning involves both hemispheres of children's brains working together, resulting in stronger, more meaningful learning experiences. Each fun activity in this book is designed to promote brain-based learning in the areas of language, mathematics, science, art, music, and the environment, and encourages physical, social, and emotional development. Each activity includes a materials list, extension activities, variations for multi-sensory exploration, components for diversity, and an explanation of the brain connections being made. Brain-Based Early Learning Activities also includes a comprehensive overview of early brain development and how to create a brain-based early learning environment.

Cindy Croft

Why Temperament Matters

$32.95

Why Temperament Matters: Guidance Strategies for Young Children addresses early childhood behavior guidance strategies related to children’s specific temperament traits. There are nine temperament traits that influence a child’s behavior: Activity Level, Distractibility, Persistence, Adaptability, Approach/Withdrawal, Intensity, Regularity, Sensory Awareness, Mood. All nine temperament traits are grouped into three major categories of personality: easy/flexible, feisty/spirited, and slow-to-warm-up/sensitive.

This book provides specific ideas about how a child care provider can adjust the early childhood program and environment to meet the individual needs of each child’s temperament. There is a specific emphasis on children who fall into the feisty/spirited or the slow-to-warm-up/sensitive categories because they are often the ones who are expelled with challenging behaviors. Why Temperament Matters explains where challenging behaviors may originate in temperament and provides strategies for meeting temperament needs that prevent or lessen challenging behaviors.

Lisa Murphy

Ooey Gooey® Tooey

$24.95

Ooey Gooey® Tooey is the highly anticipated sequel to The Ooey Gooey® Handbook. No matter what age group you work with, this book will be a valuable addition to your resource shelf. With 140 activities for you to do with children, Ooey Gooey® Tooey is chock full of art ideas and sensory tub concoctions, and sure to become an early childhood classic!

Deanna Pecaski McLennan

Kindercoding Unplugged

$34.95

Kindergarten teacher Deanna Pecaski McLennan, PhD, takes readers on a journey through her own kindergarten classroom and how she’s actively cultivating computational thinking in her students through a Reggio Emilia lens and emergent curriculum. Using photos, vignettes, narrative, and more than eighty unplugged coding activities, this book will help readers better understand what coding is and how they can begin to implement easy and developmentally appropriate coding games and activities into their early childhood programs.

Angele Sancho Passe

Ready for Kindergarten

$29.95

Ensure young learners transition to kindergarten successfully

This tool kit is an ideal planning resource for early childhood professionals as they coordinate a successful transition to kindergarten that benefits children, their families, and schools. Using an anti-bias lens throughout, this updated edition incorporates current best practices in the field while also considering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on kindergarten readiness. Filled with information, advice, and activities, Ready for Kindergarten includes discussion questions, reproducible checklists, and assessment and planning templates to help you prepare children for the transition to kindergarten.

Rosanne Hansel

Creative Block Play

$39.95

Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development in a variety of domains.

Rosanne Regan Hansel has been both a teacher and administrator for a variety of early childhood programs and currently serves as Education Program Development Specialist for the Department of Education. Ms. Hansel received her MS Ed in Early Childhood Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.

Gaye Gronlund

Focused Portfolios(tm)

$34.95

Offers an innovative method to accurately document children's growth and development by observing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Used for years in programs across the country, this easy-to-use system helps teachers assess children's progress in four areas (Favorites, Friends, Family, and Developmental Milestones). Eight chapters include a complete introduction to the Focused Portfolios method, many step-by-step examples, and all the necessary forms for portfolio collection.

Connie Jo Smith

Growing, Growing Strong

$59.95

This updated whole-health and safety curriculum contributes to children's wellness and growth. This five-book set teaches children from age 3 to kindergarten about important topicsbody care, fitness and nutrition, social and emotional well-being, community and environment, and safety conceptsas they develop lifelong healthy habits.

Each book provides
An overview of the topic
Suggested interest area materials and supports for creating the learning environment
Learning objectives and vocabulary words
Suggestions for evaluating children’s understanding of the topic
More than 30 classroom activities
Family information and take-home activities

This series includes one copy each of Body Care, Fitness and Nutrition, Safety, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Community and Environment.

Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan EdD

Learning to Lead

$24.95

Become a stronger, more effective teacher and learn how leadership skills impact all areas of early childhood care and education

Working with children requires you to be an adaptable leader and teacher, no matter the setting. Learning to Lead helps early childhood professionals at any level cultivate their leadership potential and skills with an introduction to leadership theory and practice, including definitions of the functions and styles of leadership and examinations of the roles of empowerment, followership, and advocacy in the leadership process.

Use your knowledge of child development to transfer your natural skills to a range of leadership situations. Each chapter is built around a combination of theories, examples, and reflection questions, concluding with a vignette and references for further study.

The third edition includes:

Updated and expanded material on working with children in a culturally diverse community while addressing the racial and social injustice and inequity in society 
Updated and expanded material on how  bias, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, and inequity  intersect  with cultural differences and diversity 
Updated resources for further reading 
A new chapter on how to create a leadership and advocacy plan based on topics, reflections, and questions in from the book, to help you take on a leadership role in your program.

Redleaf Press

Sign Language Cards for Infants and Toddlers

$14.95

Teaching infants and toddlers modified sign language can ease frustration at this age when children begin to know what they want, need and feel but don't have the verbal skills to express themselves. The Sign Language Cards for Infants and Toddlers give early childhood professionals and families simple directions on how to use modified signs with infants and toddlers.

Common words like "mom," "dad," "eat," "banana," and "milk" are included in the infant and toddler set. The front of each card includes a colorful illustration and a short description of how to make the sign. The back of each card explains when to use the sign and how doing so will help children develop.

Sign Language Cards for Infants and Toddlers

Gretchen Kinnell

No Biting, Third Edition

$24.95

Biting is an issue that is more than skin-deep. It can affect any toddler in any setting and can have developmental, emotional, or environmental causes. An “unfortunately not unexpected” occurrence among toddlers, biting is more than a physical act. It is a serious, complicated issue that brings frustration to the biter, bitee, parents, and child care providers. This book offers technique-building advice for approaching biting in ways that work effectively for everyone involved.

No Biting, Third Edition, is expanded with over 50% new and updated content that includes consultation and technical assistance on biting for infant-toddler specialists and a ready-to-use teacher training curriculum, organized into eight short training modules.

Perhaps no other concern in toddler programs challenges teachers and parents as much as biting does. This how-to handbook helps you work through biting with successful strategies and trusted guidance.

Kris Murray

The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide

$29.95

Proven marketing techniques for a more profitable child care business

You have the skills and expertise to provide high-quality care to children. Do you also know the best, most effective ways to market your child care program to prospective families? The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide is filled with exercises, action steps, and strategies to help you become a more business-savvy leader and entrepreneurial thinker. Built around the four pillars of marketingmetrics, market, message, and mediathis resource will help you grow your child care business, whether you run a small program or large center. As you develop core marketing and business skills, you will be able to
Track marketing activities to see which strategies work best for your program
Identify and reach prospective families
Understand the basic elements of creating and using a marketing plan
Fill your program to capacity in any economic climate

Carol Garhart Mooney

Theories of Practice

$19.95

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. In this book, Carol Garhart Mooney writes about the important task early childhood educators have to understand the foundational theories behind their daily practices. When this is accomplished, they are better able to refine their practices, create thoughtful curriculum, and do their best work with children.

To this end, Garhart Mooney advocates that everyone working in early childhood—caregivers, educators, consultants, administrators—should hold degrees in early childhood. With a focus on the value that comes when early childhood educators have strong theoretical knowledge and are able to articulate why they do something for children, Theories of Practice is a call to everyone in the field to raise the standards of early childhood education. Garhart Mooney emphasizes that early childhood educators can work more confidently and effectively with children when they understand the link between best practices and the research behind them.

Carol Garhart Mooney has been an early childhood professional for more than forty years and is currently the executive director at Holy Cross Early Childhood Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. She holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in early childhood education. She has completed coursework for a doctorate in sociology of the family.

Deborah McNelis

Transitions with Infants and Toddlers

$14.95

Support infants' and toddlers' transitions from one activity to the next. This card set contains forty quick and easy activities to aid caregivers in transitioning with infants and toddlers. The cards are compact and portable, making it easy for teachers, care providers, and parents to support transitions throughout the day.

Angele Sancho Passe

Early Childhood Leadership and Program Management

$19.95

Leading and managing an early education program is both challenging and rewarding. Early Childhood Leadership and Program Management (Quick Guide) gives practical tips on running a child care program that boosts the confidence of new directors. It draws on the skills they already have, proposes strategies that focus on quality for teaching and learning, and organizational planning. It also addresses how to infuse a diversity-rich mindset to create successful environments for all staff, families, and children.

Miriam Beloglovsky

Just Play

$29.95

Reclaim the joy of play for yourself with Miriam Beloglovsky, coauthor of the best-selling, award-winning Loose Parts series.

Play is crucial in adulthood because it fosters adaptiveness, creativity, role rehearsal, and mind-body integration. Just Play specifically targets adults' play and explains how the adults' shift toward creativity can influence children. If adults can reharness their playful capacities and reap all of play’s benefits, they will be equipped to work with children, design effective curricula, understand children and increase empathy, create playful leadership opportunities, and make significant changes to their programs and organizations.

Just like children, when adults engage in play and creative endeavors, they can find that childlike center that cultivates happiness and joy. Play is affirming because it allows us to enter a natural, safe, and caring environment in which we freely explore our inner thinking and desires.

The book will guide educators, administrators, and faculty through a series of comprehensive steps that will shift their thinking surrounding adult play. It is designed to give administrators, associations, and community agencies a blueprint to redesign programs to increase creativity and innovation, and ultimately drive system change.

Deborah McNelis

Balancing Brain Stimulation for Preschoolers

$12.95

Both over stimulation and under stimulation create stress in young developing brains. Balancing Brain Stimulation for Preschoolers are designed to give early childhood education professionals simple brain development insights that assist in keeping the brains of young children balanced.

Balancing Brain Stimulation for Preschoolers offers suggestions for activities and interactions for a wide variety situations throughout the day. The suggestions provide easy ways for caregivers to avoid either over stimulation or under stimulation of young children. When children have balance their brains are not feeling stressed, so they can feel calm, learn, and be happy.

Aerial Cross

Ants in Their Pants

$29.95

From sunup to sundown, "extra busy" children have an endless supply of energy and remain on the move throughout the day. Ants in Their Pants offers successful and tested techniques to help caregivers, educators, and parents provide the best support to active learners so they can thrive in the classroom and at home. These ideas—from a teacher of both special and general education who is a parent of an extra busy child—provide information on how to help extra busy children use their energy to learn while helping teacher understand children who need to move.

Julie Bisson

Celebrate!

$26.95

Updated information and unbiased, developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays. Many programs are establishing a "no holiday" policy, but this book shows you how to celebrate and adhere to school policy. Among other topics, it includes evaluating holiday activities for appropriateness, addressing commercialism and stereotypes, involving families, and developing inclusive policies.

Redleaf Press

The Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2017

$18.95

The fortieth-annual Redleaf Calendar-Keeper continues to be the leading business tool for keeping family child care professionals organized. Includes monthly expense charts, attendance and payment logs, mileage records, food program tallies, and detailed income tax worksheets all in one convenient place. Also, enjoy monthly nutritious recipes, activities, and helpful tips.

Rae Pica

Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning

$24.95

A complete movement curriculum for early elementary children

Physical education is a critical part of early learning. Movement experiences exercise the whole bodyincluding the mindand can help children develop a lifetime desire for health and fitness and success in all areas of academic learning. With more than 100 developmentally appropriate physical activities, this curriculum promotes children’s participation in and enjoyment of creative movement that is inclusive, active, and fun.

Everything you need to get started is here, including:
An introduction to implementing physical education into your curriculum
An explanation of the ways creative movement supports children’s physical, social/emotional, cognitive, and creative development
Tips to create a positive learning environment, suggestions for adding equipment to activities, simple questions to evaluate whether or not the children are meeting the activity’s objective, and information on how the activities meet early learning standards outlined by NAEYC and AAHPERD
A wide variety of activitiesplus extensions and adaptations for children with special needsfalling under five categories: openers and closers, basic movement, cooperative activities, educational gymnastics, and rhythm and dance
Curriculum Connectors that identify each activity’s correlation with content learning areas
A CD filled with original music to add joy and energy to the activities

Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning

Teaching at the Beginning

Soyul and Teacher Yvette DVD

$79.95

Soyul and Teacher Yvette: Adventures in Preschool Second Language Acquisition is a DVD/CD-ROM set, showcasing one dual language learner across fourteen months of preschool. An avenue for observation, it offers a dynamic view of the stages and strategies involved in second language acquisition. The featured video presents a singular case study of one child over time, capturing the trajectory of her language development.

Soyul and Teacher Yvette: Adventures in Preschool Second Language Acquisition consists of three twenty-minute videos and a facilitator’s guide (in English and Spanish) and expressly supports:
Directors of early childhood education centers,
Instructors at colleges and universities,
Monolingual and bilingual teachers,
Parents and families.

Each video serves as a springboard for flexible, mobile professional development:
Video One documents Soyul, Teacher Yvette, and the four stages of preschool second language acquisition;
Video Two zeroes in on the characteristics of each stage with commentary on Soyul’s language abilities;
Video Three focuses on the teaching strategies appropriate to Soyul at each of the four stages and the benefits of supporting the first language and culture of the dual language learner.

This DVD features commentary by leaders and researchers in the field:
Moisés Román, Director of Curriculum, UCLA Early Care and Education,
Marlene Zepeda, Ph.D., Professor, Researcher, Consultant,
Julie Espinoza, Director of Education, Mothers’ Club Family Learning Center,
Gay Macdonald, Executive Director, UCLA Early Care and Education,
Linda M. Espinosa, Ph.D., Author, Researcher, Consultant.

Eric Nelson

Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms

$49.95

Create an outdoor learning program

Transform outdoor spaces into learning environments where children can enjoy a full range of activities as they spend quality time in nature. This book is filled with guidance to help you plan, design, and create an outdoor learning program that is a rich, thoughtfully equipped, natural extension of your indoor curriculum. Loaded with practical and creative ideas, it also includes information to help you

Understand how outdoor classrooms benefits children’s learning and development
Collaborate with other teachers, administrators, and families to make your outdoor classroom a reality
Create development and action plans to strategize and implement changes
Evaluate your outdoor environment, program, and practices

Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms promotes the idea that if you can do it indoors, you can probably do it outside as well.

Eric Nelson is the founder and director of Child Care Planning Associates, the consulting and training division of the Child Educational Center, Caltech/JPL Community, which he established with his wife in 1979. Eric's consulting specialties include building and playground design and renovation, child care needs assessment and feasibility studies, development of employer-related child care, and staff training and development. Eric’s understanding of the value of the outdoors is grounded in a lifetime of hiking his beloved Sierra Nevada Mountains in California since he was a young child.

Rae Pica

Acting Out!

$26.95

Movement is not misbehavior! Current policies in the early childhood field ask teachers to treat children as though they exist from the neck up—even though research clearly demonstrates that the mind-body connection is vital to development. Rae Pica, founder and director of Rae Pica Keynotes & Consulting and author of the Moving and Learning series, advocates for active learning, not only because it’s developmentally appropriate but because doing so promotes a calmer, friendlier, and less challenging learning environment.

Section I provides theory, research, and language to advocate for active learning. Section II offers suggestions on how to update learning environments, and Rae offers some of her own past missteps in hopes that readers will be able to learn from her mistakes. Section III contains 200 ready-to-use movement activities that can be easily implemented into the day. Most require no materials, and every activity includes a “Curriculum Connection,” so readers can understand and clearly explain why the children aren’t “just playing.”

Angele Sancho Passe

Creating Diversity-Rich Environments for Young Children

$19.95

Early childhood educators have the power to help all children learn to respect themselves and others. Creating Diversity-Rich Environments for Young Children is an easy-to-use guide that shows how early childhood professionals can create a positive and inclusive environment for children of all cultures.

The newest addition in the Redleaf Press Quick Guide series includes elements of the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice and ethical standards, early childhood progress indicators, and best practices in adult learning.

Guides for reflection and planning for educators and cross-cultural competence checklists will be included to further assist educators.

Creating Diversity-Rich Environments for Young Children

Toni Sturdivant

I Like Myself

$29.95

Support young Black children in developing a positive racial identity.

I Like Myself uses the latest research into positive identity formation to provide practical solutions for educators. It links together lesson planning insights, academic activities, and children’s book recommendations that are designed to facilitate positive racial identity in Black children, covering topics including hair texture, skin tone, language, self-esteem, and media representation. Supplementing and complementing any curriculum, this critical resource provides information across social-emotional, academic, and fine arts domains that stay faithful to curricular goals while specifically targeting the racial identity needs of Black preschoolers. Targeting the Black identity specifically, the lessons are designed to be engaging, meaningful and effective for all students, so each child feels valued and accepted while also gaining the knowledge and skills that they need to be successful.

Featuring recommendations for over 150 children’s books to support positive identity formation in Black children and 70+ activities and ideas to pair with children’s book read-alouds.

Carol Garhart Mooney

Teorías sobre la infancia, segunda edición: Una introducción a Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget y Vygotsky

$25.95

Este recurso exitoso provee introducciones claras y directas a las teorías fundamentales de John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget y Lev Vygotsky. Cada capítulo recalca la obra de un teórico e incluye conocimiento sobre cómo la teoría impacta la enseñanza de los niños de hoy. Se incluyen preguntas de discusión y lecturas segeridas para ayudarle entender qué significa utilizar cada teoría al trabajar con los niños.

Teorías sobre la infancia, Segunda edición

Construe el puente entre la teoría y las mejores prácticas para la educación de primera infan-cia

Da apoyo al gozo genuino de usted con niños al ayudarle entender más sobre las maneras que ellos crecen y aprenden

Incluye nuevos entendimientos de la obra de Vygotsky

Aplica las cinco teorías a las realidades del siglo veintiuno

Teorías sobre la infancia, segunda edición: Una introducción a Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget y Vygotsky

Nola Larson

Transition Magician

$25.95

More than 200 original ideas weave smoothness into activity changes.

Connie Jo Smith

Body Care

$14.95

As young children become aware of their bodies, they can begin to appreciate and care for their health. Encourage children to feel good about their bodies, prevent the spread of diseases, and gain a measure of independence and control in their lives with this Body Care curriculum. Children will understand their bodies and the five senses, and they will learn the importance of washing hands and practicing good hygiene, brushing teeth and promoting good oral health, avoiding germs, and taking medicine.

The curriculum includes
Overviews of the six body care topics
Suggested interest area materials and supports for creating the learning environment
Learning objectives and vocabulary words to introduce and use
Suggestions for evaluating children’s understanding of each topic
More than 30 hands-on classroom activities
Family information and take-home activities

This book is part of the Growing, Growing Strong series, a whole-health curriculum for children age three though kindergarten. Together, the books provide a complete set of activities and resources to help you support children’s growth and wellness.

Deborah McNelis

Transitions with Preschoolers

$14.95

Support preschoolers' transitions and learn how they help their development with this card set that contains forty quick and easy activities. The cards are compact and portable, making it easy for teachers, care providers, and parents to support preschoolers' transitions from one activity to the next throughout the day.

Gaye Gronlund

Focused Portfolios

$39.95

Focused Portfolios offers an innovative method to accurately document children's growth and development by observing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Used for years in programs across the country, this easy-to-use system has recently been updated to reflect current best practices in observation and assessment using portfolios, include information on apps and other digital tools to create portfolios for individual assessment and parent engagement, and incorporates individual state standards to develop portfolios that reflect the child's performance.

Tamar Jacobson

Everyone Needs Attention

$26.95

Attention seeking is seen as misbehavior in young children, and giving them the attention they need is often times interpreted as reinforcement of bad behavior. Everyone Needs Attention focuses on how we, as adults, manage our emotions when children seek our attention, including a how-to chapter to help the reader reflect about how they sought out attention as children. This book includes conversations with teachers as well as some concrete steps to assist in self-explorations.

Tamar Jacobson, PhD, includes her own life story of suffering emotional neglect, as well as anecdotes of her work with teachers, families, and children over the past forty years as a preschool teacher, professor, mother, and early childhood consultant.

Tom Copeland

Family Child Care 2016 Tax Companion

$17.95

There are many unique tax rules that affect your family child care business. This workbook is a comprehensive tool that will help your tax preparer understand your business and ensure that they are claiming all allowable deductions on your behalf.

Aerial Cross

Come and Play

$29.95

Early intervention is vital in addressing and redirecting play challenges in young children. Each of five common play challenges—children who roam playrooms, play repetitiously, appear anxious, are detached, or are rejected by peers—are highlighted. Also included are sensory integration ideas and activities to promote positive and productive play.

Wendy Banning

Lens on Outdoor Learning

$49.95

The outdoors is full of rich learning experiences for preschool and pre-kindergarten children. Lens on Outdoor Learning is filled with stories and colorful photographs that illustrate how the outdoors supports children's early learning. Each story is connected to an early learning standard such as curiosity and initiative; engagement and persistence; imagination, invention, and creativity; reasoning and problem-solving; risk-taking, responsibility, and confidence; reflection, application, and interpretation; and flexibility and resilience. Much of the teaching in these experiences is indirect and involves provisioning, observing, and conversing with children as they spend quality time in nature. Children's dialogue and actions are included in each story to show just how engaged they became during these experiences. Lens on Outdoor Learning will inspire early childhood professionals to use this outdoor approach in their own setting.

Wendy Banning is coordinator of Irvin Learning Farm, an inquiry-based, hands-on outdoor learning space for children and adults in North Carolina. She is also an educational consultant, teacher, trainer, and photographer.

Ginny Sullivan is co-principal of Learning by the Yard, a partnership of landscape architects and educators that helps schools develop their grounds as habitat, focusing on native plants. Ginny consults, trains teachers, and involves schools and centers in the design of their outdoor spaces to help children learn about the natural world.

Deborah Falasco

Teaching Twos and Threes

$34.95

Working with two- and three-year-olds is an important job, one that will influence children’s lifelong learning. With strategies to plan a developmentally appropriate program, build positive relationships with young children, and support young children’s learning in all areas, Teaching Twos and Threes is a classroom essential. What’s more, it’s packed with creative activity ideas! It will help you reflect on your teaching practices as you plan a developmentally appropriate program that is stimulating and authentic for all twos and threes.
Foster children’s independence in an environment that is filled with opportunities for free exploration.
Plan hands-on and engaging art, circle time, dramatic play, science and nature, cooking, and writing exploration activities and experiences.

Deborah Falasco is lead teacher for the two- and three-year-old program at Wimpfheimer Nursery School, the laboratory school at Vassar College. Deborah is a frequent presenter and has received several awards recognizing her outstanding work with toddlers.

Jean Barbre

Activities for Responsive Caregiving

$26.95

101 play-based activities to begin a lifetime of learning

Very young children are rapidly changing and eagerly discovering their worlds. As a responsive caregiver, you support children’s development and create a nurturing environment filled with opportunities for them to joyfully explore, learn, and grow. This resource provides more than a hundred play-based activities to help infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds develop the skills they need to become active, happy lifelong learners. Each activity is easy to implement, engages children in playful experiences, and emphasizes primary and secondary learning outcomes in social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Use this book to strengthen your understanding about how children grow and create countless moments of nurturing through developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

Jean Barbre, EdD has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.

Connie Jo Smith

Safety

$14.95

Children deserve to play and learn in safe environments. The earlier children understand safety concepts, the more naturally they will de¬velop the attitudes and respect that lead to lifelong patterns of safe behavior. Support children as they begin to incorporate actions into their lives that make them feel more secure and learn about pedestrian safety, seat belt use, fire and burn prevention, weapons avoidance, poisoning prevention, and tobacco and alcohol awareness.

The curriculum includes
Overviews of the six safety topics
Suggested interest area materials and supports for creating the learning environment
Learning objectives and vocabulary words to introduce and use
Suggestions for evaluating children’s understanding of each topic
More than 30 hands-on classroom activities
Family information and take-home activities

This book is part of the Growing, Growing Strong series, a whole-health curriculum for children age three though kindergarten. Together, the books provide a complete set of activities and resources to help you support children’s growth and wellness.

Barbara Oehlberg

Making It Better

$24.95

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activities

Children living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning. They might demonstrate disrespectful or defiant behaviors, act out, or act with aggression. As an educator, you may provide the only stability in their otherwise turbulent world.

Making It Better explains trauma-informed education, an approach that recognizes the impact of traumatic stress on children and its effect on the growing brain, and applies the latest neurological research to teaching methods, disciplinary policies, and interactions to support grieving children.

This book responds to the learning and behavioral needs of children who have experienced traumatic events or toxic stresssuch as natural disasters, community violence, or abuse or neglect within the child’s familial relationsand includes a collection of activities and strategies to help children heal and feel empowered.

Distressed children need absolute emotional security and an opportunity to engage in healing activities. With your help, children can begin to build resiliency and find renewed hope for the future.

Barbara Oehlberg, MA, is an education and child trauma consultant who has presented for many organizations throughout the country. With a career that has spanned many levels, Barbara has spent more than 30 years making a positive impact on children’s lives.

Lisa Daly

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment

$44.95

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment invites center and home-based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children’s play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones.

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach that:

Requires minimal financial resources

Features loose parts and upcycled materials

Integrates nature

Includes inspiring photos of before and after transformations

Offers design tips and material lists

Describes how play in each area fosters children’s competencies, development, and learning in the areas of social and emotional, language and communication, cognitive, physical, and expressive arts

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment

Dave Riley

Intellectual Development

$24.95

To the untrained eye, many of the common activities in early childhood settings may not seem educational. In reality, research shows that these activities are actually learning tools that promote children's intellectual development.

Why do we sort blocks and sing nursery rhymes with children, and what do they learn from these activities? Intellectual Development answers these questions and investigates the link between the best practices in early childhood education and the science of child development. This book will help teachers answer the question Why do we do what we do?”

Chapters cover language and literacy development, early number learning, and musical and artistic development. The book also contains information on early learning standards, practice tips, and recommended readings.

Charlotte M. Hendricks

Disaster Planning and Preparedness in Early Childhood and School-Age Care Settings

$19.95

All adults who are responsible for the care of children should be prepared for disasters. This guide provides caregivers, educators, and program staff with preparation tips and step-by-step responses to disaster situations that are based on national standards and best practices to keep children safe.

Disaster Planning and Preparedness in Early Childhood and School-Age Care Settings

Charlotte M. Hendricks

Hip on Health

$21.95

Health and safety is of utmost importance when it comes to the care of children. This book includes more than 140 childhood health, safety, and well-being topics for families, educators, and caregivers, in both mini-poster and handout format.

Jeff A. Johnson

Keeping Your Smile

$17.95

Filled with warmth, humor, and honesty, Keeping Your Smile is a resource for anyone who cares for children and who wants to manage their own stress, tension, or anxiety before burnout becomes an overarching obstacle in their daily interactions with children. Jeff A. Johnson, a child care professional who wrote about his own burnout in Finding Your Smile Again, offers strategies, activities, tips, and tools help caregivers and educators work with children with passion and maintain a satisfying career in the field. Included are profiles of several professionals who have experienced burnout and survived to become stronger, better care providers.

Suzanne R. Gellens

Building Brains

$29.95

Building Brains expands young children's learning with six hundred brain-based, developmentally appropriate activity ideas. It combines the latest information on brain development with activities that support children's learning and enrich any early childhood curriculum. Rather than step-by-step activities, Building Brains is filled with open-ended ideas that early child professionals can execute in a variety of ways, depending on children's needs and interests. Ideas are organized by agefrom age zero to fiveand learning domains.

YWCA Minneapolis Early Childhood Education Department

Anti-Bias Curriculum for the Preschool Classroom

$34.95

The YWCA Minneapolis Early Childhood Education's anti-biased and play-based curriculum uses practical and real-life experiences to support teacher learning and practice. With thrilling success in 2016, 94% of infants through preschoolers enrolled in this program were on track with age-appropriate development. This curriculum is flexible enough to accommodate state or local standards while remaining open to children's ideas, interests, and questions.

The YWCA Minneapolis Early Childhood Education Department has been providing quality education for forty years, delivering a powerful blend of high-quality, full-time early childhood education, direct service and advocacy for children, from infants through ten-year-olds in partnership with their families.

Anti-Bias Curriculum for the Preschool Classroom

Tamar Jacobson

Perspectives on Gender in Early Childhood

$44.95

This rich collection of academic essays comes from a leading and diverse group of early childhood scholars from around the United States and Europe. Perspectives on Gender in Early Childhood addresses important topics such as:

Gender stereotypes acquired in early childhood
Effects that stereotyping has on young children
The history of gender and early childhood education
Gender portrayal in children's books
Gender roles and healthy sexuality development
Gender considerations in setting up interest areas in preschool

Perspectives on Gender in Early Childhood

Margaret Brooks

Integrating Authentic Art in Early Childhood

$44.95

Integrating Authentic Art gives educators the skills, tools, and understanding they need to support children’s most authentic visual representations and speak the language of art. Weaving Vygotskian theory with practical art lessons, author Margaret Brooks proves that visual arts are critical to young children’s development and that they build a foundation for current and lifelong learning and communication throughout all domains and curriculum areas. Teaching children to draw and use other art media gives them the tools to express themselves in many “languages” and shows them how deeply we respect their ideas. Doing art with children helps us see the world through their eyes.

Integrating Authentic Art in Early Childhood

Deborah McNelis

Help Me Thrive While I'm Five

$14.95

Challenge, engage, and interact with five-year-olds to promote brain development. These hands-on learning activity ideas support children as they build skills in all areas. These activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart interactive, brain-building play anywhere throughout the day.

Cover image for Help Me Thrive While I'm Five, isbn: 9781605543048

Gigi Schweikert

Guiding Challenging Behavior [3-pack]

$21.95

You may be the first to notice a child who is struggling with behavior. Learn to assess the behavior, document patterns of behavior, and share concerns with families. Includes tips and tools for getting the support of parents and for determining if your program is the best fit for the child.

Gigi Schweikert

Understanding Infants, Toddlers & Twos, and Preschoolers [3-pack]

$21.95

The early years are a period of incredible growth in children. This assorted three-pack of workbooks helps early childhood professionals understand the developmental stages of young children. This set includes one copy each of Understanding Infants, Understanding Toddlers & Twos, and Understanding Preschoolers.

Understanding Infants
As an early childhood professional who works with infants, you provide the care and nurturing they need to grow and flourish. You make a difference in their first yearone that is filled with remarkable growth. Being an infant teacher requires knowing and understanding infants, observing them closely, and responding appropriately to their subtle and not-so-subtle cues. Use this professional development workbook to gain insight into the amazing capabilities of infants, learn about their development, create a more infant-appropriate routine and program, and provide them with security, comfort, and stability as they explore and learn with confidence. This is a great educational and training tool whether you are a veteran educator, new teacher, college student, or career seeker. You’ll learn fascinating facts, and you’ll be reminded of how important your job as an early childhood professional truly is.

Understanding Toddlers and Twos
One- and two-year-olds are in the midst of developing and exploring their skills to communicate, move purposely, and assert their independence and individuality. As their teacher, you have great patience, energy, and creativity as you work with their on the go” approach to life. Use this professional development workbook to help navigate the complex toddler years and gain a better understanding of their growth and development. You will improve your interactions with them by responding to their individual needs, find out how to create a routine and environment that keeps toddlers safe as they explore and learn, and assist them as they develop self-help skills such as toileting, dressing, and eating. This is a great educational and training tool whether you are a veteran educator, new teacher, college student, or career seeker. You’ll learn fascinating facts, and you’ll be reminded of how important your job as an early childhood professional truly is.

Understanding Preschoolers
Preschoolers have amazing capabilities, and although they share many common characteristicsincluding an eagerness to learn, play, and exploreevery child is unique and special. As you teach three- to five-year-olds, you acknowledge and celebrate individual strengths and skills, promote self-confidence, and encourage their love of learning. Use this professional development workbook to see the world through a preschooler’s eyes so that you can better teach them. You will learn how to create a more preschooler-appropriate routine and program, respond to and guide children in effective ways, and develop a deeper appreciation of their unique personalities and temperaments. This is a great educational and training tool whether you are a veteran educator, new teacher, college student, or career seeker. You’ll learn fascinating facts, and you’ll be reminded of how important your job as an early childhood professional truly is.

Understanding Infants, Toddlers & Twos, and Preschoolers [3-pack]

Susan Stacey

The Unscripted Classroom

$29.95

Emergent curriculum encourages early childhood educators to use creativity and flexibility as they respond to classroom challenges and children’s interests. Filled with case studies and stories from toddler and preschool teachers about their experiences responding to events in their own classrooms, The Unscripted Classroom provides inspiration for educators to step out of their usual scripts and try something new. A review of the emergent curriculum philosophy and an examination of the many ways creativity in teaching benefits children are included. This resource complements Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings: From Theory to Practice by the same author.

Sandra Heidemann

Play

$29.95

Play skills are life skills; as children develop them, they also learn important social skills that they will use throughout their lives. Teachers will find successful strategies for implementing changes in the classroom to enhance the environment for play and techniques to help support children’s development. This is the revised edition of the well-respected and relied-upon handbook Pathways to Play. Play contains activity ideas that encourage play skills, checklists to help identify where children are having problems, specific teaching strategies, and assessment options. This new edition also examines how play theory translates into practice.

Anne Marie Coughlin

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

$34.95

As the field of early learning continues to grow and evolve, we must consider the impact of our approaches to working with adults and children. Early childhood professionals and leaders need to reconcile their responsibilities in never-ending administrative tasks, ensuring program quality, and supporting the growth of others. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Child Programs is a comprehensive practical look at creating systems, structures, and protocols for supporting people in large and small organizations, individuals working as mentors, coaches or pedagogical leaders to invite educators into a thinking and learning process about their work.

Readers will develop the skills and mindsets that can enhance their performance and effect organizational change. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice offers stories and structures connected to four principles of pedagogical leadership with specific ideas to enhance the work of educational leaders.

Working from a place of values and vision

Building strong relationships

Seeing and supporting strengths and competencies

Supporting professional learning in multiple ways

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

Gaye Gronlund

Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive

$24.95

Every state has developed some form of early learning standards. Find out how you can apply and use them in ways that are most beneficial to children.

Updated to reflect the continuing evolution of early learning standards, this book offers help and hints, support and clarification, and clear explanations of how you can make early learning standards come alive in your early childhood classroom or program. You’ll find tools to communicate exactly how you are addressing children’s learning as you plan for cognitive and foundational skill development, as well as suggestions to assess children’s progress. Easy-to-read charts present information about each major content area or area of development and descriptions of what those standards might look like in classrooms. The charts also suggest activities and interactions to support a child as he or she makes the first attempts toward the standard, progresses toward it, and finally accomplishes the standard.

New to this edition:
A chapter focusing on Approaches to Learning standards
The most recent information on early learning standards from across the country
References to the Common Core State Standards and their relationship to early learning standards

Gaye Gronlund has consulted for national organizations, state agencies, school districts, and early childhood programs for more than twenty years. She helped two states write their early learning standards. Gronlund is well known for her many books and keynote presentations.

Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive

Donna C. Hurley

Family Child Care Guide to Visits, Inspections, and Interviews

$17.95

Learn the skills and best practices to make receiving visits more productive and worry-free

As a family child care professional, you nurture and teach children during their most formative years. Being a family child care provider also means you must attend to families, licensors, food program representatives, coaches, and other people who visit your in-home business. This guide is filled with everything you need to successfully prepare for and host visits from people involved in the operation and regulation of your business.

This book includes case studies featuring more than twenty common challenges that can occur during visits and skill-based solutions and successful strategies you can use to prepare for those situations. It also provides checklists and self-examination activities to help you welcome and connect with potential families, specialists, and inspectors in positive ways, as well as support, guidance, and techniques to enhance your program.

Donna C. Hurley has been writing and delivering trainings for providers, parents, and home visitors or more than forty years.

Sharon Woodward has more than twenty years of experience supporting family child care professionals.

Family Child Care Guide to Visits, Inspections, and Interviews

David Sobel

The Sky Above and the Mud Below

$39.95

David Sobel’s follow-up to Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens walks readers through the nitty-gritty facts of running a nature-based program. Organized around nine themes, each chapter begins with an overview from the author, followed by case studies from diverse early childhood programs, ranging from those that serve at-risk children to public preschools to university farm programs to Waldorf schools.

Sample newsletters in each chapter show how real programs have tackled tough questions and sticky situations. The programs featured in these newsletters are from across the United States: Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont, California, Michigan, Rhode Island, Louisiana, and Indiana.

Deborah McNelis

Fun While I'm One

$14.95

These quick and engaging activity ideas help parents, caregivers, and educators promote the development of language, cognitive, social-emotional, and physical skills in one-year-olds. The activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy to jumpstart interactive, brain-building play with young children anywhere throughout the day.

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Redleaf Press

Redleaf Calendar-Keeper 2018

$18.95

This must-have business tool for family child care professionals includes monthly expense charts, attendance and payment logs, mileage records, food program tallies, detailed income tax worksheets, monthly nutritious recipes, activities, and helpful tips. All business-related records are organized in one convenient place, saving time and money.

Deborah McNelis

Play with Me While I'm Three

$14.95

Enhance three-year-olds' brain development and support their learning through attentive and fun interactions. These activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart brain-building play anywhere throughout the day.

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Inc. Kinnell for the Child Care Council of Onondaga County Gretchen

Good Going!

$16.95

From the author of No Biting comes a comprehensive potty-training guide for child care teachers. Good Going! addresses the issues involved when young children are potty trained in a group setting, such as in the classroom, as well as in the home. Eight chapters offer a healthy perspective for developing consistent policies and successful practices for potty training, as well as guidelines for developing productive partnerships with parents—including sample parent communication tools and detailed resource lists.

Gretchen Kinnell is the director of education and training at the Child Care Council in Syracuse, NY. She is also an adjunct instructor at Onondaga Community College and a regular contributor to Syracuse Newspaper’s "Partners in Parenting" column.

Ann Gadzikowski

Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms

$34.95

Support exceptionally bright children with strategies that challenge them to think with more complexity, depth, and creativity

Nearly every group of children includes at least one exceptionally bright child. From the especially creative child to the child who has already mastered learning outcomes to the twice exceptional” child, exceptionally bright children have a wide range of talents and behaviors. This book will help you understand what it means to be exceptionally bright in preschool and prekindergarten and help you guide children to reach their full potential. It includes three broad strategiesdifferentiation, conversation, and connectionfor creating rich and satisfying learning experiences that meet the needs of all children. Use these techniques to adapt your practices, challenge children to think more deeply, and create opportunities for children to learn from each other throughout your literacy, math, and science curricula. You will also learn assessment methods that can help you identify exceptionally bright children and techniques to support children’s social-emotional development and strengthen your partnerships with families.

When exceptionally bright children are supported and challenged, they will be more confident about their abilities to think and learn. And they will go on to make creative contributions to their future classroom communities.

Ann Gadzikowski, a graduate of the Erikson Institute, has more than twenty years of experience as an early childhood teacher and program director. She is the early childhood coordinator for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University and teaches early childhood education courses at Oakton Community College.

Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms

Cathy Sheppard

Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition

$17.95

Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. Not only is it tons of fun, it offers so many opportunities to learn. Through engaging in messy play, young children:

learn about their senses

build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills

experiment with and explore the properties of the solutions

learn color mixing, patterns, design, texture, and rhythm

develop hand-eye coordination

Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition uses 40 fun, open-ended and creative recipes for children that can be used both in the early childhood education setting and at home. All of the recipes can be easily replicated with readily available ingredients. Full of innovative recipes and beautiful color photography of messy play in action, this book takes a modern and environmentally friendly approach to messy play.

Easel backed, self-standing package, for easy reading. This revised edition has been beautifully redesigned.

Diane Kashin

Cultivating Professional Friendships in Early Childhood Education

$26.95

In the final legacy of a rich career, author Diane Kashin draws on a wealth of research and a lifetime of professional friendships to invite readers to muse with her on what it means to be a friend, how to make friends and keep friends, and what happens when friendships end.

Early childhood educators are skilled in supporting and promoting children’s friendships. But adult professional friendships, sometimes known as critical friendships, are also integral to early childhood education, giving educators daily support and collaboration, nurturing their professional and pedagogical growth, and—not to be discounted—making the job fun! Enhance your joy and practice as an early childhood educator through professional friendships.

This book is an invitation for you to:

Reflect on the big ideas of professional friendships.
Consider how to apply the theories of professional friendship to practice.
Articulate what you value in a professional friend.
Focus on yourself to describe your own identity.
Communicate the expectations that you have for your professional friends in your current and potential relationships.

Cultivating Professional Friendships in Early Childhood Education

Susan Stacey

Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings

$32.95

Develop a curriculum inspired by children's emerging interests. Create an environment where children learn through play, inquiry, and exploration. This book explores the components of emergent curriculum and how its practices can improve the educational culture of early childhood programs. The updated edition includes new information on exploration of inquiry-based practice; reexamination of circle time and scripts for routines; expansion of invitations, including invitations for children learning a second language; new photos and documentation, and inclusion of Reggio Emilia.

Susan Stacey has worked in the field of early childhood for over thirty-five years, as an early childhood educator, director, and practicum advisor. She obtained her Master's degree at Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California. Stacey frequently presents across North America about emergent curriculum, reflective and responsive practices, inquiry, documentation, and the role of the arts in early childhood education. She teaches adult early childhood education students at the Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education, and belongs to several professional organizations such as National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Canadian Childcare Federation. Stacey has presented frequently at NAEYC conferences, and has been published in Young Children, Young Exceptional Children, and Exchange. Her books with Redleaf include Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings, The Unscripted Classroom, and Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood.

Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings

Ann Gadzikowski

Robotics for Young Children

$34.95

Winner of the 2018 Midwest Book Award Education Category

Introduce young children to the building and programming of robots through playful, developmentally appropriate activities. Many early childhood professionals are unfamiliar with computer science, robotics, and engineering concepts. This user-friendly and accessible book gives teachers great ideas for engaging young children with 100 exciting hands-on computer science and engineering activities. The book can be easily included in a developmentally appropriate curriculum and offers a balance of adult-facilitated and child-centered activities.

Jill McFarren Aviles

Hearing All Voices

$24.95

After working in the field of early childhood education extensively, Jill McFarren Avilés 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. Hearing All Voices offers a culturally responsive framework that supports educators in understanding the importance of equity in their interactions with children and families. The framework focuses on implementing practical strategies that can help increase equity in early education through day-to-day interactions. Written as a guidebook to support early childhood coaches to get inspiration, knowledge, and tools as they guide teachers from diverse backgrounds in early childhood settings. This book weaves together the latest in the science of change, brain development, adult learning, and practical “how-to” to transfer this into practice.

Linda Zane

Pedagogy and Space

$24.95

The intersection of architecture and education is a new and burgeoning area of interest. This book blends architectural design information with theory-based content explaining the foundations of early childhood environments. Colorful photographs of intentionally designed spaces will inspire early childhood professionals and architects alike as they dream, plan, build, and revamp settings. Inspired by the groundbreaking architectural book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Oxford University Press, 1977), this resource aims to glean architectural information regarding important design patterns in an environment and utilize them to provide insight into early childhood environments that are both developmentally appropriate and aesthetically pleasing.

Aerial Cross

Nature Sparks

$29.95

Nature has monumental power on children’s growth and development. Recent studies show that as children spend less time in nature, they miss out on the profound benefits that outdoor play and learning experiences provide.

Nature Sparks is filled with inspiration and instruction to help educators and caregivers of children ages three to eight reclaim and strengthen connections to the outdoors. This resource supplies ideas to create a nature-oriented classroom and curriculum, incorporates Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to encourage children’s individual talents as they experience the natural world, and includes more than fifty sensory-integrated activities, crafts, and instructional strategies.

Julie Powers

Nature-Based Learning for Young Children

$34.95

Nature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice to highly experienced in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, urban, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson plans, guidance and health and safety issues related to nature activities, ideas for free/inexpensive equipment and materials and for big-ticket items, ideas for family involvement, and connections to early childhood learning standards. Chapters are divided by nature topic, so readers can dip in right away where they want to start exploring.