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Books to Promote Healing & Essential Social-Emotional Skills

As early childhood educators, you play a key role in directing children's development, and in teaching them the skills that are necessary for them to navigate through life successfully. Children grow, discover, and learn best when they develop essential social-emotional skills like resilience, self-regulation, and self-competence early in life. In this list, you will find resources to help you foster the social and emotional development of young children.
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3 Tips to Cultivate Healing in the New School Year

Ginger Welch, PhD, author of How Can I Help? A Teacher's Guide to Early Childhood Behavioral Health, shares three strategies to cultivate healing in the new school year.
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Go to Guides for Early Childhood Directors

The list of books below will provide you with everything you need to know about establishing and running a high-quality child-care business where children will learn, play, and thrive. These books address key, real-world topics such as operating, managing, recruiting, hiring, organization culture, professional development, and discipline policies.
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Books to Inspire Dramatic Play in Early Childhood

What would childhood be without pretend play? Dramatic play is not only fun for children, its also a method of learning. Pretend play can lead to greater social-emotional awareness, improved motor skills, better communication skills, and improved confidence. Through imagination and creativity children can learn critical skills in an exciting and engaging way. The books listed below will help educators learn the different types of play, including dramatic play, along with how to best encourage creativity amongst their students.
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About the Book: Early Childhood Director’s Guide to Solving Everyday Challenges

Early Childhood Program Directors have to wear many hats on any given day. Whether they're filling in for one of the toddler classrooms or they're having to do maintenance to repair something that has broken in the center, early childhood directors face a wide array of challenges. If you don’t have a clear handle on these, your day could be full of frustration.

In The Early Childhood Director’s Guide to Solving Everyday Challenges, author Thomasa Bond, EdD, seeks to alleviate these frustrations by sharing positive resolutions to real-world scenarios that have occurred at actual child care centers. Learn more about her new book below and how directors can avoid mistakes, oversights, and incidents by learning through others’ mistakes.
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Books for Creative Curriculum Approaches

Looking for innovative and developmentally appropriate curriculum for your early childhood classroom that helps children develop a love for learning? In this list, you will find creative curriculum approaches that maximize learning by harnessing natural curiosity through hands-on exploration and play, and allows children to dive deeper into their own developing interests.
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QUIZ: Does nature inspire beauty in your classroom?

An inspiring environment is essential for helping young children learn. Determine which level of growth best reflects your classroom environment with this quiz!
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Rituals to Ease Transitions for Young Children

Dr. Sandra Duncan, coauthor of Inspiring Spaces for Young Children and author of Through a Child’s Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning and Wonder, discusses three ritual-related activities that can aid children in their transition back into the classroom. When returning to the classroom from an extended holiday break, many children can experience a feeling of disruption and displacement. Rituals and recurring activities can help children gain a sense of stability and predictability, ultimately making their transitions back to school less stressful. Through Duncan’s recommended exercises, children can regain their sense of structure and belonging within the classroom.
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Related Book: Through a Child’s Eyes
Books to Enhance Your Classroom Environment

Research has shown that the classroom environment has the power to maximize the learning experience, self-efficacy, and higher-order thinking skills. In this list, you will find books that can help you transform an ordinary classroom into a beautiful and educationally-enhanced space designed for interest, healing, and growth.
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Books to Strengthen & Energize Early Childhood Programs

After the stresses and challenges of this past year, professional development is vital for early childhood educators to continue to develop the traits that will allow them to teach and guide children in this pivotal time. In this list, you will find books that help you master your leadership skills, promote ongoing professional development, and ultimately create skilled and vibrant early childhood communities!
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