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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.

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.

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.