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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

The Play Prescription: Using Play to Support Internalizing Behaviors explores internalizing behaviors such as anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal found in young children, ages 3 to 7. Behavioral symptoms are discussed, with a focus on child development and emotional competence. Dr. Liese discusses a range of research-supported interventions and prevention methods for children presenting symptoms and offers clear descriptions of educational strategies and implications for educators. In addition, sample handouts are included to send home to encourage parent support and involvement.

Emergent Curriculum with Toddlers addresses and defines the practice of emergent curriculum and its specialization and integration into toddler programs. Toddlers are at a unique and important stage of development, so educators require resources that are specifically written for this crucial time of life. An emergent curriculum for a toddler class can look quite different from a preschool class in terms of the children's developing themes, the teacher's observational skills, and the emotional and social climate in the program.

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment invites center and home-based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children's play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones. Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach that: Requires minimal financial resourcesFeatures loose parts and upcycled materialsIntegrates natureIncludes inspiring photos of before and after transformationsOffers design tips and material listsDescribes how play in each area fosters children's competencies, development, and learning in the areas of social and emotional, language and communication, cognitive, physical, and expressive arts

As the field of early learning continues to grow and evolve, we must consider the impact of our approaches to working with adults and children. Early childhood professionals and leaders need to reconcile their responsibilities in never-ending administrative tasks, ensuring program quality, and supporting the growth of others. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Child Programs is a comprehensive practical look at creating systems, structures, and protocols for supporting people inlarge and small organizations, individuals working as mentors, coaches or pedagogical leaders to invite educators into a thinking and learning process about their work. Readers will develop the skills and mindsets that can enhance their performance and effect organizational change. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice offers stories and structures connected to four principles of pedagogical leadership with specific ideas to enhance the work of educational leaders.Working from a place of values and visionBuilding strong relationshipsSeeing and supporting strengths and competenciesSupporting professional learning in multiple ways

Design in Mind outlines a framework for a design thinking process that helps educators tackle complex challenges in their educational ecosystems step by step to quickly find fresh ideas and solutions. It invites readers to simultaneously think like educators and designers while centering inquiry, equity, equality and inclusion, supporting creative tension, and encouraging collaborative innovation.

We live in a three-dimensional world, but many of our learning environments today offer few opportunities for three-dimensional exploration. Spatial reasoning is also integral to everyday life, in social studies, the arts, and geography as well as new careers like computer animation.Navigating the 3-D World will help early childhood teachers feel confident in implementing more mathematical and spatial concepts into their rooms.

In Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children, the newest addition in the Redleaf Press Quick Guide series, award-winning educator Vicki Carper Bartolini offers practical suggestions and resources for rethinking your early learning environment with a focus on STEM, using the Reggio Emilia approach lens honoring a student-centered, self-guided curriculum based on principles of respect, responsibility, and community through exploration and play. Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children will inspire teachers and give them steps that they can take tomorrow after reading the book. Includes snapshot case studies of three programs that have brought their STEM environments to life.

Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based framework for preventing and addressing challenging behaviors in the classroom; it has shown to be effective from preschool through high school. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports for Preschool and Kindergarten will provide specific information for preschool and kindergarten teachers on creating and implementing a classroom-wide behavior management system, as well as research-based interventions for addressing challenging behaviors. Anecdotes and real-world examples illustrate the concepts presented by Dr. Marla J. Lohmann.

&lt;i>Working Well with Babies&lt;/i> describes the comprehensive competencies (including the knowledge, dispositions, and skills) that educators of infants and toddlers must have to provide optimal support for infants and toddlers. Designed as a learning resource for both in-service and pre-service infant/toddler practitioners, this text details the nine competency dimensions of infant/toddler educators developed by the Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/Toddler Development (CUPID). <br><br>The nine competencies are <br>1. Reflective Practice2. Building and Supporting Relationships<br>3. Partnering with and Supporting Diverse Families<br>4. Guiding Infant and Toddler Behavior<br>5. Supporting Development and Learning<br>6. Assessing Behavior, Development, & Environments<br>7. Including Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs<br>8. Professionalism<br>9. Mentoring, Leadership, and Supporting Competencies in Adults<br><br>Supplemental appendices include rich and well-organized information to build core knowledge of development over the first three years and apply this knowledge to practice.Reproduciblesdesigned to enhance active and engaged learning are organized by chapter and provide examples, reflective exercises, and information to share with families.

For Every Soldier There is a Time To Kill & a Time To Heal is a book that helps combat veterans heal after the trauma of war. It's 100 pages magnificently illustrated with specific and compelling truths to help those who have suffered the violence of war come home and prepare for a time of true healing from the true healer. By reading it yourself, you will appreciate the hell they faced for you. You will understand their long-term exposure to hatred, the psychological beatings they've endured, their devastation over the loss of comrades and much much more. But most of all, you, like them, will know the precise steps to healing, for only God can reach the soul of a Soldier making "old things pass away and all things to become new."

A collection of inspiring personal stories of empowerment of young children from award-winning Los Angeles principal Michael Alan Haggood. Woven into each narrative are teaching and learning strategies for teachers and parents. Readers will be asked to reflect on their own experiences as each chapter challenges them with thoughtful questions.

Founded on a series of lectures architect Donald H. Ruggles has given over the past ten years, Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being postulates that beauty can and does make a vital difference in our lives, including improving many aspects of our health.

The historic 1928 "Bunion Derby" was a cross-country footrace from Los Angeles to New York City. In a supreme test of human endurance, runners pounded the pavement for 84 straight days. Including more than 200 illustrations, this book tells the story of this landmark race.

Create a larger vision in your child care program and perform your job as a center director with motivation and creativity. Early childhood leaders Deb Curtis, Margie Carter, and Luz Casio provide inspiration and support in this newly updated edition of The Visionary Director.

Generation Alpha"" applies to children born between 2011 and 2025. Raising Generation Alpha Kids looks at how this generation of young children presents new opportunities and challenges, and supports and informs the two principal groups of adults in children's lives - their families and early childhood educators.

Expert advice from a personal mentor to lead you through the new CDA processMajor changes have been made to the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential process. This guide has been updated to reflect all of the new material and requirements to help you reach your educational and career goals as you earn the Credential.This third edition of The CDA Prep Guide has designated center-based preschool, center-based infant/toddler, and family child care sections, with information specific to each setting. Throughout this book, easy-to-understand assistance, as well as sample documents and forms, will help simplify the required tasks of CDA documentation and assessment as you:Assemble the Resource Collection for your Professional PortfolioCompose the six Reflective Statements of CompetenceDistribute and collect the Family QuestionnairesSelect a Professional Development SpecialistPrepare yourself and your setting for the observationComplete the applicationPrepare for the CDA ExamPrepare for the Verification VisitThis book is intended to supplement the materials you receive from the Council for Professional Recognition. After receiving your CDA Credential, you can continue to use this book to renew your credential, to earn a CDA for a different setting, and to develop goals for future professional development.Debra Pierce is an educator, CDA Trainer, and a certified CDA Professional Development Specialist for the Council for Professional Recognition. She has been mentoring CDA candidates since 1997 and taught dual credit CDA courses in a large metropolitan high school. She has been a preschool, kindergarten, and first grade teacher, as well as a Parent Educator for the national Parents as Teachers program. Currently, Debra is professor of Early Childhood Education at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana and conducts CDA train-the-trainer workshops across the country.

Specifically designed with Spanish speaking family child care providers in mind, this booklet aids caregivers to observe and record a child's growth and development. Organised by age within developmental domains, it includes milestones that directly align with those in The Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum, Second Edition.

El programa de cuidado infantil en el hogar de Redleaf, segunda edicion, ofrece el mismo formato facil de usar del original con nuevas actividades e ideas para crear cientos de experiencias de aprendizaje creativas e inclusivas.

Focuses on how to cultivate the maker mindset in the youngest learners, how to engage young children in maker-centred learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how to select/use open-ended tools and materials.

Using photos, vignettes, narrative, and more than eighty unplugged coding activities, this book will help readers better understand what coding is and how they can begin to implement easy and developmentally appropriate coding games and activities into their early childhood programs.

A guide for both teachers and parents and includes a diverse variety of activities and resources. More than 20 projects involve both traditional classroom materials like unit blocks as well as natural materials, found objects, cardboard, and authentic woodworking materials.

Explores how children's mistaken behaviour (not misbehaviour) can play out in the classroom and provides strategies on how early childhood professionals can help others to gain the emotional health they need to be socially responsive, and then support the social skills they need to build relationships and solve problems cooperatively.

Offers an overview of trauma and its impact on young children, as well as specific strategies and techniques educators and administrators can use to create classroom and school communities that improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population.

Ryan N. Dennis is Curator and Programs Director at Project Row Houses.

There has been much attention given to the achievement gap between white and minority students, especially African American children. Through research and years of experience, the author breaks down the cultural influences on children's learning styles and provides a practical approach to helping black children thrive in the classroom.For black children, which Sullivan defines as those of African descent, there is a disconnect between learning preferences and learning environments that must be bridged before the achievement gap can be closed. This hands-on resource is filled with effective strategies and best practices to help early childhood educators expand their "e;toolbox"e;for supporting children.Increasing cultural intelligence will allow us to work across the many differences in our classrooms. As our schools become more diverse, cultural competency will be an increasingly important skill for teacher's efficacy and children's success. By cultivating the individual genius of each child and meetingchildren where they are today, we can invigorate the education system and provide children high-quality early education experiences.Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan, EdD, is the cofounder and president of Praxis Institute for Early Childhood Education. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in higher education as a teacher, researcher, and administrator.

Provides theory, research, and language to advocate for active learning; offers suggestions on how to update learning environments; and contains 200 ready-to-use movement activities that can be easily implemented into the day. Most require no materials, and every activity includes a ""Curriculum Connection"".

Teachers often see repetitive behaviours in toddler and preschool classrooms. Viewing these actions through the lens of schema theory can help adults understand what's really going on in children's brains when they display these repetitive behaviours. This book is filled with stories about real children exploring schema.

Walks readers through the nitty-gritty facts of running a nature-based program. Organised around nine themes, each chapter begins with an overview, followed by case studies from diverse early childhood programs, ranging from those that serve at-risk children to public preschools to university farm programs to Waldorf schools.