ECE/Primary

Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves Louise Derman-Sparks & Julie Olsen Edwards PB: 978-1-928896-67-8 • $41.99 184 PAGES • 8½" X 11" Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this volume’s practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity; most importantly, find tips for helping staff and children respect each other, themselves, and all people. Over the last two decades, educators across the nation and around the world have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in anti-bias work. The result is a richer and more nuanced articulation of what is important in anti-bias education. Individual chapters focus on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different abilities, holidays, and more.	Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms Ann Gadzikowski PB: 978-1-60554-116-8 • $41.95 192 Pages • 8" X 10" • B/W Photos • available Create a richer learning environment and plan intentionally to help all children—including early readers, advanced mathematicians, and young scientists—reach their full potential. This book combines three strategies—differentiation, conversation, and connection—and provides techniques to identify and assess exceptionally bright children. It also includes ideas to change the pace, level, or method of your teaching in response to the individual needs of children, as well as social and emotional support strategies and guidance for working with families.	What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program: Emotional Intelligence in Practice Holly Elissa Bruno PB: 978-1-928896-80-7 • $45.99 320 PAGES • 8½" X 11" Early childhood directors manage through relationships. This important book guides a director through the steps to build respectful, dynamic, and welcoming relationships with families and staff. Covers all traditional early childhood administration topics, from financial management to marketing and development, while also recognizing and exploring the human side of management and the critical role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership.
Teaching STEM in the Early Years Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sally Moomaw, EdD pb : 978-1-60554-121-1 • $47.95 320 pages • 8½" x 11" • B/W photos throughout • available Seamlessly integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics lessons throughout your classroom. More than 85 activities and learning center ideas help children build a strong foundation for STEM learning as they participate in art, music, cooking, and block play experiences, explore the sensory table, go on field trips, and spend time outdoors. Information on assessment and early learning standards is also included.	Powerful Interactions: How to Connect with Children to Extend Their Learning Amy Laura Dombro, Judy Jablon, & Charlotte Stetson PB: 978-1-928896-72-2 • $38.50 160 PAGES • 8" X 9½" A teacher interacts with the children all day long. But interactions that intentionally promote learning can be few. A “Powerful Interaction” may last only a few minutes, but in that time the teacher tunes out any distractions, tunes into the child, then delivers a learning experience tailored to that child at that moment. This book guides you through the three steps of a Powerful Interaction in a series of self-guided lessons enlivened with tips, hints, invitations to reflect, and vignettes.	Cooking Is Cool Heat-Free Recipes for Kids Who Cook Marianne E. Dambra PB: 978-1-60554-158-7 • $23.95 144 Pages • 7½" x 9¾" • Color photos throughout • MARCH cooking with children is a delicious learning experience. Children can explore new foods, learn about nutrition, and develop a variety of math and literacy skills as they help prepare recipes. With more than 50 heatfree, classroom-friendly recipes, this resource helps children experience all of the benefits and joys of cooking—without entering the kitchen and using the stove or oven.
Teaching Twos and Threes Deborah Falasco PB: 978-1-60554-132-7 • $47.95 280 Pages • 8½" x 11 • Color photos throughout • june 2013 With a focus on the special joys of working with two- and three-yearolds, this comprehensive curriculum meets their developmental needs, includes a wide range of activity ideas and learning experiences, and provides strategies to help teachers and caregivers plan a thoughtful program and build positive relationships with young children. The author presents frequently at conferences and has received several awards recognizing her outstanding work with the toddler age group.	Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (3rd ed.) Carol Copple & Sue Bredekamp, eds. PB: 978-1-928896-64-7 • $47.99 Since the first edition in 1987, NAEYC’s book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs has been an essential resource for the early child care field. Fully revised and expanded, the third edition comes with a supplementary CD containing readings on key topics, plus video examples showing developmentally appropriate practice in action. Based on research on development, learning, and effective practices, as well as what experience tells us about teaching intentionally, DAP articulates the principles that should guide our decision making. Chapters describe children from birth through age 8 in detail, with extensive examples of appropriate practice for infant/toddler, preschool, kindergarten, and primary levels.	The Kindness Curriculum, Second Edition Stop Bullying Before It Starts Judith Anne Rice PB: 978-1-60554-124-2 • $29.95 160 Pages • 8½" X 11" • February 2013 Focus on positive character development in the early years and build positive, pro-social values to help prevent bullying before it starts. This comprehensive framework includes 95 classroom and at-home activities to help young children develop compassion for others by practicing simple, yet powerful, lessons that foster love, empathy, gentleness, self-control, respect, friendship, and conflict resolution. These activities will help you cultivate a peaceful and supportive learning environment where all children can seek out the goodness in themselves and each other.
Reflecting in communities of practice A Workbook for Early Childhood Educators Deb Curtis, Debbie Lebo, Wendy Cividanes, & Margie Carter PB: 978-1-60554-148-8 • $23.95 80 Pages • 8½" x 11" • B&W photos & worksheets throughout • April Reflective teaching is a continuous cycle of observing, documenting, reflecting, and planning. Early childhood educators can use this professional development workbook for individual or group practice on a variety of topics related to reflective teaching. Ten study sessions with guided activities and a thorough explanation of this model are provided to help educators cultivate creative, critical, and thoughtful teaching skills. This workbook is designed to be open and inviting to entry-level and experienced early childhood teachers, child care center directors, teacher educators, and college students of early childhood education.	Learning from the Bumps in the Road Insights from Early Childhood Leaders Holly Elissa Bruno; Janet Gonzalez-Mena; Luis A. Hernandez; Debra R. Sullivan PB: 978-1-60554-206-5 • $35.95 264 Pages • 7" x 10" • May 2013 Four popular, dynamic presenters in the early childhood field have come together to share their insights, advice, and suggestions on a variety of leadership topics. This book offers a unique compilation of varying perspectives on leadership to help early childhood professionals reflect on and strengthen their own leadership skills and abilities as they work with children, families, and colleagues.	The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children’s Learning Ann S. Epstein PB: 978-1-928896-41-8 • $33.99 143 PAGES • 8½" X 11" As educators, we must act with knowledge and purpose to make sure young children acquire the skills and understanding they need to succeed. Planful, intentional teachers keep in mind the key goals for children’s learning and development in all domains by creating supportive environments, planning curriculum, and selecting from a variety of teaching strategies those that best promote each child’s thinking and skills. The Intentional Teacher considers how and when each type of learning (child-guided, adult-guided, or a combination) is most effective, and what teachers can do to support them. “This is one of the best early childhood books that I have ever read,” says Sue Bredekamp, «and I have read a lot of them.»