Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills. Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find best of current thinking about children's environments - 360 pages to challenge you, stimulate you, inspire you. This is your book - directors, teachers, parents, trainers, faculty and consultants. Take it to bed. Wear it out. Expect dog ears in no time.

Caring Spaces, Learning Places

Jim Greenman

Exchange Press

Research shows young boys learn differently from young girls. Oh Boy! provides strategies and practical approaches to address the problem of expulsion rates and other challenges of boys in early education programs.Francis Wardle holds MS in cultural foundations of education from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction, with a specialty in early childhood, from the University of Kansas. He has been a Head Start volunteer, education manager, director, and national program reviewer. He currently teaches at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, Colorado.

Oh Boy! Strategies for Teaching Boys in Early Childhood

Francis Wardle

With Beginnings Workshop Books you'll have the hottest curriculum topics down cold. Every issue of Exchange magazine includes a hands-on staff development guide that provides a wealth of practical ideas on specific curriculum topics from leading authorities in the field of early care and education. Each Beginnings Workshop book is a comprehensive collection of these articles on a particular topic. Topics cover: The Spirit of Play, Value of Play, Block Play, Make-Believe Play, Play and Culture, and More!

Play: A Beginnings Workshop Book

Education & Teaching

Bonnie Neugebauer

Schools & Teaching

With Beginnings Workshop Books you'll have the hottest curriculum topics down cold. Every issue of Exchange magazine includes a hands-on staff development guide that provides a wealth of practical ideas on specific curriculum topics from leading authorities in the field of early care and education. Each Beginnings Workshop book is a comprehensive collection of these articles on a particular topic. -- Topics covered: Fitness and Health, Nurturing Optimism, Nutrition, Imagination, Humor, and More!

Child Development II: Beginnings Workshop Book #7

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

In her personal memoir, Holly Elissa Bruno shares her childhood experience of trauma and abuse with you to offer a beacon of hope and a tangible example of how you can make a positive difference in the world and most of all, in the lives of children.

Happiness Is Running Through the Streets to Find You

Holly Elissa Bruno

Natural Playscapes

Keeler Rusty

The Top Ten Preschool Parenting Problems: What to Do About Them

Could your early childhood program benefit from having more money with which to expand services, increase staff salaries, buy new equipment, enlarge or remodel your space...or simply stabilize your annual budget despite rising costs and/or decreasing support from your usual funding sources?This book will help you make that happen. You will learn: how to identify people in your community who are most likely to contribute to your program - even if they've never heard of it; how to ask for money; the value of fund-raising events; tried and true ideas for direct mail appeals * where to find foundations that could be a source of grants for you and -more important - how to write proposals that they will fund; how to prepare successful government proposals; what you need for a capital campaignThere are other books about fund-raising or grant writing. This is the only one that is specific to programs serving young children, their families, their caregivers, and their teachers, with detailed, real-life examples -- written by Roberta L. Bergman, a veteran consultant and grant writer with a strong early childhood background.

Not Just Small Change: Fund Development for Early Childhood Programs

Roberta L. Bergman

What does every young child need to be a well-adjusted, happy person? From Carol Hillman's years of experience and wisdom comes the answer: Help each child discover a secret world where play, creative freedom, self trust, and personal responsibility opens the child's mind and heart to the excitement of learning and the enjoyment of sharing it with others. Seldom has one writer been able to capture the inspirational vision and practical knowledge necessary for the effective teaching of young children in a single book. Expect to be enchanted, enlightened, and affirmed by the philosophy and very best beliefs about children and their learning.

TEACHING FOUR-YEAR-OLDS

Carol B. Hillman

Adventures in Risky Play: What is Your Yes?

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