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Have Something to Look Forward To: Schedule Joy

What was the last thing you looked forward to? Was it something big, such as a day off, a vacation, or a major purpose? Instead of focusing solely on big rewards or vacations, think about the concepts of pleasure, joy, and peace. Now think about finding moments of those emotions in your life every day.
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Books to Promote Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Every child deserves to feel safe, represented, included, and loved in their classroom environment so that they can learn, thrive, and reach their innate potential regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, culture, religion, or abilities. Early childhood educators can give all children this experience through culturally relevant pedagogy that connects classroom learning to children's home experiences and native languages. Check out this list of resources that will help early childhood educators promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their classrooms from exploring your own unconscious biases and connecting with families from varied cultural and language backgrounds to designing developmentally appropriate, consistent behavior-guidance policies and creating inclusive nature-based programs that connect every child to nature.
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Books for Inspiring Nature-Based Learning

Children are spending more and more time with tablets, televisions, and overly structured routines—perhaps even more time recently due to the pandemic. However, recent research has drawn the link between children’s brain development and time spent in the natural environment. In fact, spending time in nature has proven to benefit children in many ways—physically, cognitively, social-emotionally, and spiritually. But how can we practically implement nature into our early childhood curriculum and pedagogy? In this list, you will find resources that guide you in doing just that, from start to finish, through hands-on activities in the outdoors to open-ended learning experiences with nature.
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Use Rhythm to Self-Regulate Infants in Your Care

Barbara Sorrels, EdD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds, shares advice on how to correctly use rhythmic movement to support self-regulation in children. Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds is out now and can be bought at GryphonHouse.com.
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3 Activities to Support Development from Birth to 3

Sally Goldberg, PhD, well known for her tools and strategies for self-esteem development and author of Fun Baby Learning Games: Activities to Support Development in Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year Olds, shares three activities to support development from birth to age three. These simple games are designed to boost cognitive development for each age group, all while providing nurturing support for bonding and attachment. Sally Goldberg explains how both of these factors are extremely important in child development, and can reduce the likelihood that children will participate in crime and violence in the future. A little loving guidance in the first three years of life goes a long way!
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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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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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