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Understanding Shared Services in Early Childhood Education

Amanda L. Krause-DiScala

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$19.95

Family Child Care Money Management and Retirement Guide

Tom Copeland

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$18.95

RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years

Christopher Pierce Brown

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$34.95

Look & Cook for Family Child Care Homes

Partners in Nutrition

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$29.95

Being a Professional, Partnering with Families, and Becoming a Team Player [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert

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$21.95

The Visionary Director Reflection Journal/Un diario de reflexión para el director visionario

Luz Maria Casio

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$21.95

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports for Preschool and Kindergarten

Open-Ended Art for Young Children

Tracy Galuski

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$29.95

Family Child Care 2016 Tax Workbook and Organizer

Tom Copeland

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$17.95

Developmental Milestones of Young Children

Redleaf Press

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$19.95

Discovering Nature with Young Children: Trainer's

Ingrid Chalufour

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$34.95

From Handprints to Hypotheses

Todd Wanerman

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$29.95

Creating Young Expert Learners

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Amanda L. Krause-DiScala

Understanding Shared Services in Early Childhood Education

$19.95

Leverage shared services alliances and knowledge hubs to increase skills, save time and money, and advance the field of early childhood education.

Shared services is a fairly new concept in the early childhood space but one that is gaining traction through the work of a number of individuals and organizations across the country. Understanding Shared Services in Early Childhood Education, a Redleaf Quick Guide, provides context surrounding the history of early childhood education and child care to explain the genesis of current crises in the field, then explains how utilizing shared services systems including knowledge hubs and alliances can help by pooling resources and information and sharing access to technology. Among many other possibilities, shared services may: 

Offer resources or assistance in automating business records and processes
Centralize resources and services such as substitute pools or payroll among programs
Secure bulk discounts for members
Standardize policies and procedures such as tuition collection or onboarding employees.

Leveraging shared services knowledge hubs and alliances together allows us to collaborate with other professionals and save time and money, focusing these resources instead on increasing quality, addressing workforce issues, and expanding access of services to children and families with fewer barriers. When we bridge the gap between child care center and family care providers we make the field stronger and more successful.

Christopher Pierce Brown

RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years

$34.95

RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years: From Theory to Practice provides teachers with a roadmap for teaching that helps children meet academic expectations and maintains focus on the appropriate development of the whole child. A construct of eleven practices, RIGOROUS DAP supplies teachers with strategies for 1) making instructional decisions that meet the needs of the individual child; 2) sustaining culturally relevant practices; 3) engaging stakeholders in conversations about educating young children for school success through practices that attend to their individual, sociocultural, and developmental needs; and 4) ensuring all children experience high-level learning and succeed in school.

The eleven practices comprising the construct are:

Reaching all children
Integrating content areas
Growing as a community
Offering choices
Revisiting new content
Offering challenges
Understanding each learner
Seeing the whole child
Differentiating instruction
Assessing constantly
Pushing every child forward

An academically rigorous learning environment allows all children to learn at high levels through hands-on learning experiences that address the whole child and connect to the child's world in and out of school. A developmentally appropriate learning environment considers the children's developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, and physical development, as well as the sociocultural worlds in which they live.

Luz Maria Casio

The Visionary Director Reflection Journal/Un diario de reflexión para el director visionario

$21.95

With this journal, Dr. Luz Casio offers her authentic voice in a way that centers her bilingual and bicultural knowledges, experience, and perspectives. At the same time, her reflection prompts provide opportunities for readers to center their own cultural knowledges and perspectives as valid counternarratives to what has dominated the field.

A regular practice of using a learning journal provides a window into your own inner wisdom, wonderings, and visual metaphors. Looking back through the pages, you begin to see who you are now and uncover who you want to be.

Although this journal was created as a companion to The Visionary Director, Third Edition, it can also be used as an independent learning tool. The reflection prompts can be used for course discussions and assignments, as well as in professional learning communities (PLC).

Con este diario, Dra. Luz Casio ofrece su voz auténtica de una manera que centra sus conocimientos, experiencias y perspectivas bilingües y biculturales. Al mismo tiempo, sus sugerencias de reflexión brindan oportunidades para que los lectores centren sus propios conocimientos y perspectivas culturales como contra narrativas válidas de lo que ha dominado el campo.

Una práctica regular de usar un diario de aprendizaje proporciona una ventana a su propia sabiduría interior, preguntas y metáforas visuales. Mirando hacia atrás a través de las páginas, comienzas a ver quién eres ahora y descubres quién quieres ser.

Aunque este diario se creó como complemento de The Visionary Director, Third Edition, también se puede utilizar como una herramienta de aprendizaje independiente. Las sugerencias de reflexión se pueden utilizar para discusiones y asignaciones de cursos, así como en comunidades de aprendizaje profesional (PLC).

Tracy Galuski

Open-Ended Art for Young Children

$29.95

Open-ended art is defined as art activity where children are free to use their imagination as they explore a variety of materials without a planned outcome. When teachers embrace open-ended art, they emphasize the process of creating and observe the developmental growth being experienced by the children. Open-ended art provides children an important opportunity to think about, feel, and express ideas. It allows teachers to slow down the pace of the day and appreciate the beauty that comes from simple experimentation with art materials.

There are many books available to educators that include art ideas and projects, but Open-Ended Art for Young Children goes beyond the basics to highlight why the field of early childhood education advocates for open-ended art and explains how to adapt to new ways of thinking about art. Authors Dr. Tracy Galuski and Dr. Mary Ellen Bardsley present, chapter by chapter, the challenges teachers encounter when faced with best practices and expectations related art process and product. Each chapter begins with a classroom vignette that describes the challenge, followed by a plethora of solutions grounded in research and illustrated through practical examples. Each chapter includes full-color pictures and photos and ends with an activity or investigation for reflection.

Ingrid Chalufour

Discovering Nature with Young Children: Trainer's

$34.95

Field-tested across the country, this comprehensive curriculum expands and extends the role science has traditionally played in the early childhood classroom. The first in a new series, Discovering Nature with Young Children explores the wide-ranging elements that make up the natural world around us. The curriculum replaces simple fact-feeding practices with the development of long-term scientific reasoning, including literacy skills and numeracy skills, such as hypothesis, inference, prediction, and estimation.

A companion to the curriculum, this trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the curriculum—from planning to implementation. Special sections outline the curriculum and introduce scientific reasoning to adults, and eight workshops detail the complete curriculum for staff members. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions.

Todd Wanerman

From Handprints to Hypotheses

$29.95

Use the Project Approach to engage toddlers’ interests, guide in-depth explorations, and help them embrace learning

Toddlers and two-year-olds are in a fluid and dynamic state of development. They have a sense of wonder that is easily activated, and they are always ready to learn. In this book, you will learn how to use hands-on creative projects to engage very young children’s interests and nurture their unique ways of exploring and learning. You will be inspired to implement your own project-based curriculum, recognize and respond to children’s innate ability to create, and support their curiosity and self-discovery.

This book
Reviews the major theories of toddler development.
Outlines basic goals and guidelines for applying those theories as you set up your space, select materials, develop your curriculum, and incorporate the Project Approach.
Presents twelve art projectsfrom simple to long-termwith narratives describing the processes in action as children participate in each project.

Todd Wanerman has been teaching toddlers and twos for twenty years. He is the coauthor of Including One, Including All.

Marla J. Lohmann

Creating Young Expert Learners

$24.95

Implement Universal Design for Learning in your preschool or kindergarten classroom

Creating Young Expert Learners is an accessible and engaging guide for early childhood educators. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for the proactive design of classroom instruction, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of learners of all abilities in the classroom. With three principles at its core—multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation, and multiple means action and expression—UDL is based in the science of learning to ensure that classroom instruction offers the supports needed to help young children become expert learners who take ownership of their own learning.

Creating Young Expert Learners includes a theoretical introduction to the concept of UDL as it applies to young children, as well as practical examples of common early childhood learning units designed within a UDL framework. Vignettes and examples help early childhood educators connect the theory to practice and sample learning units are included for teachers to use in their own classrooms. Use UDL to help you design your teaching to reach all the children in your early childhood program.