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Executive Function Is Key Do some children in your classroom have difficulty remembering the rules, gathering their materials independently, or completing activities? Do some find it hard to follow and remember instructions? These children may be struggling with executive function. With stronger executive-function skills, children are better able to: follow and remember a sequence of directions, self-monitor and regulate their emotions and behaviors, develop problem-solving and organization skills, and work on projects from start to finish. Organized and Engaged: Simple and Effective Strategies to Support Executive Function explains what executive function is, why it matters, and how it differs from self-regulation. Discover strategies, activities, and play-based ideas to support children's classroom success.

The US Child-Care System Is in Crisis Child care supports every industry in our nation, but it has an unstable infrastructure. The current model simply isn't working. Child-care businesses are failing, early childhood professionals are not paid living wages, and expenses are rising. The primary funding source is families, but families cannot afford the true cost of child care. Does this mean that all early childhood programs must fold into the public school system? Will private child care soon be extinct? In Bridging Gaps: Implementing Public-Private Partnerships to Strengthen Early Education, author Sarah Taylor Vanover dispels the myths and explains the opportunities of a mixed-delivery system. Discover the benefits and challenges of child-care partnerships such as Early Head Start with private and family child-care settings and private child-care programs with state-funded preschools. Explore how to address credentialing, professional development, and implementing IDEA, and learn the differences between mixed delivery and universal pre-K.

Every child belongs. Every child is unique. Every child has strengths. Every child has the potential to fly. Whether your child has received a diagnosis or is exhibiting behaviors that worry you, Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion offers advice for navigating the early intervention and special education systems from an educator who has experienced these systems as a child, as a parent, and as a professional. Understand screening, evaluation, and assessment. Discover helpful resources. Learn how to work with your team of specialists and educators. Discover strategies to identify your child's strengths and consider a future vision for your child. Explore your role as an advocate for your child. Explore ideas for creating learning spaces at home and embedding learning into everyday routines. Discover how to do all of this while staying healthy and strong, with a sense of balance in your life.

Are you ready to take your child-care business to the next level? New technologies and digital-communications channels are changing the way parents and caregivers discover child-care centers and decide where to enroll. In response, center administrators have to rethink the traditional paths to enrollment. The Basics of Growing a Child-Care Business shows you how to stand out from the competition. The book offers clear strategies for growth: Charm: Grab the customer's attention. Create a solid foundation for your marketing strategy. Advise: Establish yourself as an expert and set your sales goals. Delight: Design your customer experience, and create an ongoing sales pipeline. Track: Gather data, measure your results, and adjust your approach. The third in the Basics of Child Care series, The Basics of Growing a Child-Care Business includes information on understanding your ideal customer, writing a marketing plan, creating a responsive service system, and tracking your performance. With key terms, case studies, key questions, and exercises to help you apply the concepts, this book will set you on your way to growing and strengthening your child-care business.

Empower children and prevent sexual abuse In today's world, it's crucial that we equip our children with the tools they need to stay safe. Yet, many caring adults simply don't know where to begin. Written for educators and parents by a prevention education expert, Body Safety for Young Children is the comprehensive guide you need to navigate this complex and sensitive issue. Author Kimberly King takes the fear out of sexual-abuse prevention and makes it child-friendly and approachable, so you can confidently communicate with children and protect them from harm. Packed with extraordinary stories, prevention skills, talking points, and what-if scenarios, this compassionate resource book is the ultimate toolkit for educators and families looking to prevent child sexual abuse. From body-safety lessons to social-media safety, the practical guide covers everything you need to know to keep children safe and informed. The tips, themes, shareable resources, and book suggestions will help you build a strong foundation of body-safety skills and provide simple safety strategies that work. Learn who typical child sexual abusers are. (Hint: It's almost never the "man in the van.") Discover how to create safety circles of trusted adults. Learn how to teach child-friendly body-safety techniques and code words. Find out why using correct "doctor words" for body parts is so important. Discover how to arrange a classroom for safety.

"The better we are at self-regulation, the more successful we will be at life's tasks. Most children learn self-regulation--the ability to remain calm and in control of our thoughts, actions, and emotions--in response to an external event or stimuli, between the ages of three and seven."--

Creating an inclusive early learning program can be a challenge for site leaders who lack knowledge about special-education laws, struggle to create policies and accommodations that meet the needs of all children, and find it difficult to support staff and collaborate with families and the community. With its step-by-step approach, real-life examples, and expert perspectives, Including All Children: Transitioning to an Inclusive Early Learning Program provides everything site leaders need to make their programs truly inclusive. You'll learn how to draft a powerful vision and mission statement, navigate the legal landscape of special education, and create policies and accommodations that meet the needs of children with disabilities and their families. Gain a deeper understanding of special education laws. Learn how to create policies and accommodations that meet the needs of all children. Discover how to support staff and collaborate with families and the community. Create a truly inclusive environment that benefits every child. With personal perspectives from experts in the field, Including All Children offers a unique and insightful perspective on how to create a truly inclusive environment. Whether you're a site leader, an educator, or a parent, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to make a real difference in the lives of children.

Unlock the Potential of Every Child As an early childhood educator, you want every child to thrive, regardless of their abilities or learning style. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a framework for creating learning experiences that are inclusive and accessible to all children. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to apply UDL principles to your early childhood environment to design a welcoming, engaging, and effective learning environment for every child. From designing flexible learning spaces to using technology to support diverse learners, you'll discover practical strategies and tips for implementing UDL in your classroom. With real-world examples, this book shows you how to: create a classroom culture where children feel safe and comfortable. design and adapt materials for different learning styles and needs. use technology to enhance learning for all children. incorporate UDL principles into your daily routines and activities. collaborate with families and colleagues to support children's learning. Whether you're new to UDL or looking to deepen your understanding and practice, this book will empower you to unlock the potential of every child in your early learning environment. Get ready to transform your teaching and create a more inclusive, engaging, and effective environment for all!

Rise to become a more joyful leader and empower your team to shine The past few years have been very difficult for the early childhood field. Many leaders are burnt out and looking for ways to recapture their enthusiasm. In Find the Joyful Leader Within: Banishing Burnout in Early Childhood Education, author Teresa A. Byington offers strategies for helping teachers reimagine purpose, develop meaningful connections with staff and families, communicate with care, and reflect to build on strengths. Help your staff rediscover their connections, teamwork, and camaraderie. Rejuvenate your commitment. Reimagine your purpose. Reclaim your spark. Rediscover your joy!

What can jellyfish, a bunch of grapes, or dandelions possibly teach us about designing early childhood classrooms? As it turns out, quite a lot! Inspired by Nature: Designing Play Places for the Littlest Learners explores how nature offers valuable and important lessons about transforming classroom spaces into places where infants and toddlers can thrive. Discover what mushrooms can teach us about cozy hideaways. Learn what sea turtles can show us about wayfinding. Find out what lightning bugs can share about illumination. Squirrels and handwashing sinks? Yes, that too! Horses and learning centers? Of course! With gorgeous photos and intriguing connections, Inspired by Nature: Designing Play Places for the Littlest Learners will help you see your infant, toddler, or twos classroom in a whole new way. Learn how to: make your classroom twinkle like fireflies. optimize storage space like honeybees. create a cozy environment like the forest. see from different angles like alligators. There's so much more to learn, so let the exploration begin!

Elevating Equity Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs >Elevating equity requires educators to be mindful of how to include children, families, and colleagues in all parts of early childhood programming. Elevating equity is all about creating systems that celebrate everyone! Sounds great-but how do you do it? Elevating Equity: Advice for Navigating Challenging Conversations in Early Childhood Programs takes a positive approach by embracing differences and meeting readers where they are. - Get nonjudgmental, practical advice from an experienced trainer and educator. - Find out how to have healthy, respectful, and productive conversations about what equity means and how it looks in practice. >With practical examples, research, tips, advice, self-reflections, and real stories--shared with Angela Searcy's warm humor--you'll discover how to find common ground and truly elevate educational access for the children and families you serve.

Thoughtfully created learning centers are bubbling with opportunities for active learning. Dr. Jean, beloved author of dozens of books and songs, and coauthor Carolyn Kisloski bring you a collection of practical ideas and tips to inspire engagement and spark learning in your classroom centers--and, importantly, keep children coming back for more. Children learn best through play. Discover how you can help them thrive in your learning centers. The Possibilities of Play brings expert tips for selecting and managing materials, facilitating explorations, and challenging children to: explore on their own time and at their own level, engage in hands-on discovery, solve problems and use critical-thinking skills, practice emerging skills across domains, share and get along with others, develop language, andrealize their own sense of creativity.

Explains how to develop and lead a high-quality program where children can play and learn in the care of a well-educated, committed, and trained workforce. Explore key questions in child care management, including the root causes of turnover; how to set the culture of your organization; how you can build the best team for your organization; and constructing professional-development plans for sustained growth.

Professional development is important, but early childhood professionals get just as bored, worn out, and disengaged from learning as their younger counterparts do. But while pre-K and K-12 classroom learning continues to evolve and improve, adult learners are often left by the wayside! There must be a better way. Teresa A. Byington brings administrators, coaches, and facilitators a new approach to professional development and adult learning that focuses on the learners--how they think, what they need, and what motivates them to grow. Lose the Lecture features dozens of tips and strategies to engage adult learners and help them thrive in their careers. Teach adult learners in the ways they learn bestFacilitate meaningful group learningCoach with the Reflective Strengths-Based Coaching ModelLearn more than 60 engagement strategiesEngage participants in honest communication and reflection Perfect for any professional-learning facilitator--coach, mentor, or early childhood director-- Lose the Lecture helps turn professional learning from a dreaded requirement to a meaningful opportunity. The best part? There's no slide show deck!

Resource books often provide tips and tricks for managing challenging behaviors, but what happens when those tactics don't work? Most teachers give up. Push Past It! brings a raw, real, and at times funny approach to handling challenging behaviors and understanding why most behavior-management strategies don't work. Author Angela Searcy shares real-world examples, proven solutions, and new approaches to overcoming classroom disruptions using her PUSH PAST IT approach. Beyond behavioral-management strategies, Push Past It! will teach you how to: See children's behavior as communicationUnderstand what is (and is not) developmentally appropriate behaviorIdentify when to seek supportCommunicate and listen more effectivelyHelp children overcome their own challenging behaviorsTake care of yourself too!

Fun Baby Learning Games > Play with your baby and the learning begins! Fun Baby Learning Games features many research-backed activities to do with your newborn to 36 months. Help your child learn new skills, grow their cognition, and pass developmental milestones as you play together. All activities will help your child in the following areas of development: CognitiveMotorSocial-emotionalLanguageSelf-esteemEach activity includes instructions, necessary materials, and its research-backed benefits. Your baby will thrive as you enjoy one-on-one time together, playing and learning. Sally Goldberg, PhD, also known as Dr. Sally, is a professor of education, author, and magazine writer. She authors a blog at www.earlychildhoodnews.net. Dr. Sally worked as an instructor of early childhood education on the adjunct faculties of Nova Southeastern University, Barry University, and the University of Phoenix. Well known for her tools and strategies for self-esteem development, she is a national conference presenter and a frequent guest on TV and radio. Dr. Sally, who grew up in White Plains, NY, has bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of Miami.

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

There's more than one way to be smart! This award-winning curriculum for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Revised and updated, the new edition of this classic bestseller is full of new activities based on the latest research about how children learn. Each activity now includes a Morning Message and Home Connections, and many of the original activities have been updated to include ideas for outdoor play. Full of old favorites and new ideas, the more than 1,200 activities in this curriculum are sure to engage all children. The comprehensive appendix has been updated, and the patterns are now available exclusively online so teachers can easily print them onto any paper at any time!

Comenzar un nuevo negocio puede ser una tarea de enormes proporciones, y el establecimiento de un programa de cuidado de ninos dentro de su casa puede ser especialmente desafiante. Despues de haber hecho y obtenido las aplicaciones para las licencia, cual es el proximo paso? Ahora, una experta en el campo prove consejos, informacion y actividades para establecer un programa de cuidado de ninos y mantenerlo en buen funcionamiento. Desde crear un medio ambiente sano y seguro para ninos hasta actividades atractivas que pueden ser utilizadas para desarrollar planes diarios, Elementos de un Cuidado de Ninos Hogareno es el companero que necesita para asegurar el exito de su nuevo negocio de cuidado de ninos. En lenguaje simple, Jennifer Karnopp explica como planear e implementar un programa donde los ninos puedan aprender, jugar y prosperar. No es simple construir un programa exitoso en su hogar. Elementos de un Cuidado de Ninos Hogareno es una guia y companera esencial que te ayudara en todo momento.