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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.

"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-your livelihood and the heart of your home"--

"This book 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 Cornerstone model of responsive practice while offering reflective questions to help educators implement it in their own contexts"--

The biggest obstacle people face in starting to live a healthier life is not in understanding why they need to make changes, but in overcoming their lack of knowledge on what to do. We frequently hear "I know I am not leading a healthy life, but I just don't know where to start and what to change". We heard you and have developed this workbook to help you overcome this problem. The workbook provides a roadmap for identifying what to change and how to go about it so you develop positive behaviors that become permanent lifestyle changes. Start your new journey--you will love the way you feel!

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. With closures and other challenges associated with COVID-19, preparing your taxes for 2022 may be more complicated than ever. The authors attends IRS seminars so you don't have to! The Family Child Care 2022 Tax Workbook and Organizer contains information on: How to report stimulus checks How to report unemployment benefits How to treat SBA loan programs: Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loans What's deductible because of COVID-19

Family child care providers can feel confident in their tax preparer with the help of this perennial resource. The Family Child Care 2022 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 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.

"The Original Learning Approach facilitates observation, imitation, and practice for learning through play. By incorporating wonder, curiosity, joy, knowledge, imagination, interaction, risk, time, reflection, and listening into children's play, this teaching lens will help early childhood professionals nurture continuous lifelong learners"--

Along with orientation on topics vital to early childhood professionals, this guide includes information just for mentors. Find valuable tools and tips to maximize mentoring skills and respond to frequently asked questions about the orientation process. Use this book to ensure you make the most of each new employee's potential.

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.

Creating your Earth-Friendly Early Chlidhood Program, Redleaf Quick Guide offers an approachable, efficient entry point for ECE educators who wish to instill ecofriendly values and practices in their programs. The guide will help educators evaluate their current environment and practices, get families and colleagues involved, and make both immediate and long-term changes to make their program "e;greener."e;

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

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, a substantial number of early childhood centers remained open throughout the worst days of pandemic, economic uncertainty, and protests for racial equity. Dr. Shira Leibowitz's center, Discovery Village Child Care and Preschool, located in downstate, New York, was one of the first COVID hotspots in the country. Seeking connection and companionship, she and other early childhood educators globally joined together during the worst of times for support and reflection. Havens of Hope shares the stories of resilience, creativity, and growth of schools and educators across the country.Inspiring approaches to early childhood learning of the 20th centuryMontessori, Waldorf, and especially Reggio, were born out of crisis. Could this be a founding moment? Might we be witnessing, and even participating in, the birth of new approaches to learning and care, resonating with the needs of our own times?

From the award-winning authors of StoryMaking and Makerspaces comes ArtMaking.ArtMakingis a process of making meaning by reading children's books, investigating how this meaning is expressed and then inviting the child to use art to communicate their own meaning.It is the perfect language to give all children a voice, regardless of age or ability. In ArtMaking children are invited to "e;read their worlds"e; as they learn about images, explore materials and elements of art (color, lines, shapes, textures, spaces, design) and communicate their thinking through their own art processes and products. Along the way these skills build a strong literacy foundation.Using artwork as well as illustrations from children's books as provocations, children make meaning with their visual literacy skills as they use the receptive and productive languages of literacy and art to make connections. When children engage in ArtMaking they apply the highest level of the comprehension and visual literacy continuums to new art experiences and makerspaces. They aren't just making art, they are making meaning of the book and the world.

Play is a magnificent activity that sustains life and promotes joy and hopefulness. Loose Parts for Children with Diverse Abilities addresses the importance of play while providing appropriate accommodation to support young children with diverse abilities.Award-winning author and educator Miriam Beloglovsky advocates for play for play sake and invites early childhood educators and families to see children with diverse abilities' strengths, recognize them as capable, competent and creative, and listen to their powerful voices. With hundreds of illustrative full-color photographs and infused with real stories of children with diverse abilities engaged in loose parts play, the book also includes narrative comments from families and educators.

All children deserve the tools to fight off whatever dragons they encounter and move happily through life.In Happily Ever Resilient Dr. Stephanie Goloway uses current trauma research and beloved multicultural variants of classic children's fairytales to create joyful, playful learning experiences for young children.Part one of the book covers why using fairytales in early childhood classrooms supports resilience and literacy in all children, especially important for children who have experienced trauma and toxic stress. Part two covers how to do this. Each chapter includes Story Magic: information about the fairytale and its multicultural variants, how the story connects with the protective factors of resilience, and suggestions for storytelling and storyactingCaring Magic: activities that help children make connections with each other and adults in their lives, related to the storyDoing Magic: suggestions for adapting classroom learning centers to support children's engagement with both the fairytale and resilience, along with projects that promote initiative and executive functionsSuperpower Magic: activities, songs, and games related to the story that foster self-regulation as well as ways the story can be used to support calm, integrated transitions and routinesBy tapping into the extraordinary magic of fairytales early childhood educators can create the ordinary magic of resilience.

Use the updated activities, examples, and research to improve your anti-bias and multicultural education programs. This clear and practical guide includes expanded information on English language learners, family engagement, culturally responsive teaching, and staff training. Create a positive environment for working with diverse groups of children and families.

Tom Copeland is a leading expert on the business of family child care. The Family Child Care 2021 Tax Companion is a comprehensive tool that will help tax preparers understand the unique rules that affect family child care businesses.

Teaching Off Trail describes the transformation of Peter Dargatz, a national board-certified teacher, and public school coordinator, from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. It shares his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simultaneously offering strategies for readers to implement Peter's unique teaching philosophy to increase opportunities for play, creative expression, and personalization in both the indoor and outdoor classroom. In his own classroom, Peter brought learning outside by creating a nature kindergarten program that emphasizes community partnerships, service learning, and meaningful and memorable experiences in the outdoors. Teaching Off Trail aims to inspire educators, administrators, and parents across all levels to turn their outrage for today's educational system into outreach that promotes passionate and purposeful problem-solving. He incorporates techniques often seen in private educational settings like Reggio and Montessoristudent-centered, self-directed experiential approaches to learning) and shows how they work within a public school system.

After working in the field of early childhood education extensively, Jill McFarren Aviles 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 "e;how-to"e; to transfer this into practice.

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 emotional lives of young children are growing increasingly more complex. There is growing interest in understanding early mental health and wellbeing and how early childcare providers can support children birth to age five who have experienced traumatic events and learn strategies to promote children's social and emotional development. Supporting Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Strength-based Approach for Early Childhood Educators incorporates strength-based child care strategies to foster positive reciprocal relationships between caregiver and young children and strengthen children's resiliency and wellbeing. Strategies include building on children's mental health and resiliency; identifying protective factors and indicators of risk; promoting healthy attachment; and, scaffolding social and emotional development within the context of family relationships and culture. Supporting Children's Mental Health and Well-being covers Introduction to national statistics on the growing concerns regarding early mental health and traumaThe impact trauma has on the developing brainThe impact of children's behavior on the workplace and teacher burnoutStages of typical social-emotional developmentStrategies to collaborate with families, public school systems, and community servicesOutlining practices to build resiliency in children and teachersCreating psychologically safe spaces for children and adultsBuilding a toolkit of resources and strategies