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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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About the Book–Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms

Dr. Iheoma Iruka, Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of Chapel Hill, shares the goals that she and the other three authors of Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms had in mind when writing this book. She communicates what educators, coaches, specialists, directors, and leaders of organizations can glean from this book as they work toward engaging in anti-biase, culturally-responsive education that preserves children’s race-identity, culture-identity, language, and most important of all, their humanity.
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Lemonheads and Whoppers—Professional Development Activity on Everyday Racial and Ethnic Diversity

The purpose of the following activity from Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms is to begin thinking about your level of interaction with people of different races and ethnicities. The authors of this book explain why being involved in racially and ethnically diverse social networks forces us to incorporate opposing points of view into our shared realities. Research has shown that exposing people to diverse group contact can also reduce implicit racial bias. Use this exercise to see how racially and ethnically diverse your world is, and look for areas where you could expand the diversity of the people you interact with in working to decrease bias and build a more diverse world.
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Pushing Past Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom

When teachers face challenging behaviors and emotions in the classroom, it is important for them to check in with themselves as they seek to guide children in the best way possible. You can't have calm, regulated children without calm, regulated adults! Angela Searcy, EdD—former neurodevelopment specialist with more than 25 years of experience in education and author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors—shares her strategy for teachers to calm themselves, then their children, and push past challenging behaviors and disruptions in the classroom.
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Three Tips for Embracing Anti-Biased, Anti-Racist Classrooms

Even though children are resilient in the face of many adversities, early childhood professionals can make the road a little smoother, especially for those children who face a lot of bumps, bruises, and hardships due to their race, ethnicity, culture, or religion. Tonia Durden, PhD—one of the four authors of Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms—offers 3 tips or strategies for creating high-quality, equitable, anti-biased, anti-racist, and culturally relevant education experiences.
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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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3 Tips for Transition Times with Young Children

Rae Pica, author of Teachable Transitions: 190 Activities to Move from Morning Circle to the End of the Day and many other books, invites us to question why we often ask children to do things during transition times that they are not yet developmentally equipped to do. For example, be quiet, stand still, and stay in line. Oftentimes, these “asks” can make transition times stressful and frustrating for young children. Nature has put a process in place to help children develop the skills they need over time. Rae Pica proposes that we keep this developmental process in mind, and offers 3 developmentally appropriate tips to make transition times with young children less chaotic and less frustrating.
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Balancing Classroom Design for Introverted and Extroverted Children

Sandra Duncan, EdD—coauthor of Rethinking the Classroom Landscape and Through a Child’s Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning and Wonder—explains that many classrooms are designed with extroverted children in mind, filled with group spaces created for action and filled to the brim with sensory stimulation. Oftentimes, this type of classroom design unintentionally excludes more introverted children who may prefer quieter, smaller spaces to be by themselves or just a few other children. Dr. Sandra Duncan suggests that we can design play spaces to meet the needs of both introverted and extroverted children, and gives us four tips for doing so.
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Books for Active Learning Indoors

Sometimes inclement weather keeps us indoors, but that doesn't mean learning for children has to take place sitting down at a desk. In fact, research shows that the most effective way for children to learn concepts is to experience them physically. Active learning benefits the whole child by supporting cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development and spans across the early childhood curriculum including language and literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, creative representation, and social skills. In this list, you will find resources for inspiring, motivating, and facilitating indoor active learning through music, activities, games, dances, and more.
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Making Early Childhood Transitions Fun

Children are naturally joyful, active, talkative, and energetic. As teacher of young children, one of our most important and challenging roles is to guide them through the many transitions in a day. When we prepare children for transitions and focus their attention in positive ways, we eliminate many disruptions. Positive communication is key. Dr. Jean Feldman shows us how to make transitions fun by focusing children's energies through fingerplays, songs, and games.
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