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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...
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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. Shared services knowledge hubs and alliances together allow us to collaborate with other professionals and save time and...
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Reclaim the joy of play for yourself!
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...
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"Nurturing The Future: A Guide to Early Childhood Education" is your comprehensive resource for unlocking the potential of young minds. Dive into the world of early childhood education as you explore the importance of each developmental stage, understand the role of play in learning, and discover effective teaching strategies. Create a positive learning environment that fosters growth and curiosity, and gain insights into assessment and evaluation...
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Fifty percent of what children need to know is learned between birth and the age of six. These first years of a childs life forge a permanent impact on their future. In The Visone Method, authors Carmine and Phyllis Visone provide parents and teachers with a comprehensive, innovative understanding of how a childs learning develops in the early years. Step-by-step, the method identifies the most credible procedures for each stage of development. This...
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Havens of Hope shares the hopeful energy and positive transformation that is emerging through the early childhood education field in this historic time of pandemic, economic uncertainty, and protests for racial equity. It brings readers on a journey into the possibility for new approaches in education to learning emerging in response to the momentous challenges of our times.
Deemed essential in most US states and many countries throughout the world,...
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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...
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For over fifteen years, researchers have described a crisis in our nations' early learning classrooms. Hundreds of children are expelled from childcare and preschool every day; a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-twelfth grade students. Each child's expulsion is symptomatic of a larger crisis-an overburdened, underfunded, undervalued, and fragmented early education system.
In early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult...
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Written by Letha Marchetti, leading neurodevelopmental occupational therapist Letha Marchetti, Dragons & Daisies: Keys to Resolve Baffling Behavior In Early Childhood Education is a real find! Teaching children to master self-control is the heart of this book and Letha's work. The activities Letha shares are fun, engaging, and life changing to children & teachers. This is an essential reference for everyone who works with young children.
10) Advancing Equity and Embracing Diversity in Early Childhood Education: Elevating Voices and Actions
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Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable, educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices from across the field of early childhood education and invites you to think about and discuss ways you can add your own voice to that call.
Expanding on recommendations from NAEYC's "Advancing Equity...
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Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice-the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the importance of teaching is told while entertaining and...
12) Calm Down Already!: A Practic Guide to Using Meditation and Reiki During Early Childhood Education
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This is an interactive book that introduces to early childhood, elementary teachers, home care providers, and parents, the tools needed to successfully promote a harmonic environment using unconventional techniques such as: positive affirmations, meditation, Reiki, soothing sounds, and various relaxation techniques which could be incorporated into both the classrooms and households.
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Christine E. Wilson, Ed.D provides the exact steps, processes and tools to take you by the hand in an entertaining and no-nonsense style using her techniques, knowledge of the early childhood education field, social psychology, marketing and knowledge of digital products to get the freedom to work for yourself and leverage your incredible passion for early childhood education into your own consulting business.
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• Finding your...
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"Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety front-of-mind. Examine common safety concerns and how to address and prepare for themLearn how to work with families and build...
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This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to.
So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores the author's maternal history of repeated trauma, separation, adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and their impact on mental health. Set against a twenty-year dialogue with her mother Barbara who suffers from long undiagnosed PTSD, author Elizabeth Wilcox opens her maternal...
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