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With this journal, Dr Luz Casio offers her authentic voice in a way that centres her bilingual and bicultural knowledges, experience, and perspectives. At the same time, her reflection prompts provide opportunities for readers to centre their own cultural knowledges and perspectives as valid counternarratives to what has dominated the field.

The emotional lives of young children are growing increasingly more complex. There is growing interest in understanding early mental health and wellbeing and how early childcare providers can support children birth to age five who have experienced traumatic events and learn strategies to promote children's social and emotional development. Supporting Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing: A Strength-based Approach for Early Childhood Educators incorporates strength-based child care strategies to foster positive reciprocal relationships between caregiver and young children and strengthen children's resiliency and wellbeing. Strategies include building on children's mental health and resiliency; identifying protective factors and indicators of risk; promoting healthy attachment; and, scaffolding social and emotional development within the context of family relationships and culture. Supporting Children's Mental Health and Well-being covers Introduction to national statistics on the growing concerns regarding early mental health and traumaThe impact trauma has on the developing brainThe impact of children's behavior on the workplace and teacher burnoutStages of typical social-emotional developmentStrategies to collaborate with families, public school systems, and community servicesOutlining practices to build resiliency in children and teachersCreating psychologically safe spaces for children and adultsBuilding a toolkit of resources and strategies

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment invites center and home-based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children's play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones. Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach that: Requires minimal financial resourcesFeatures loose parts and upcycled materialsIntegrates natureIncludes inspiring photos of before and after transformationsOffers design tips and material listsDescribes how play in each area fosters children's competencies, development, and learning in the areas of social and emotional, language and communication, cognitive, physical, and expressive arts

The original edition of More Than Letters showed teachers how to intentionally help children develop literacy skills through hands-on, play-based activities. Like the original edition, this edition is based on theory and research. It contains new chapters that focus on developing the skills needed to decode literature and informational text.

This newest addition to the wildly popular Loose Parts series, helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world. Over 400 full-colour photographs beautifully illustrate the ongoing need for educational pedagogy.

Many early childhood professionals are unfamiliar with computer science, robotics, and engineering concepts. This user-friendly and accessible book gives teachers great ideas for engaging young children with 100 exciting, hands-on computer science and engineering activities.

Practical guide to establishing Reggio-inspired studio practices in early childhood settings.

Examine the work of five groundbreaking education theoristsJohn Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotskyin relation to early childhood. Theories of Childhood provides a basic introduction to each theorist and explains the relationship of theory to practice and its impact on real children, teachers, and classrooms. This edition reflects current academic learning standards and includes new understandings of Vygotsky's work. It is a popular guide to help early childhood professionals be aware of the theories behind good child care practices. It is also a widely-used text in undergraduate programs, community college courses, and training workshops that focus on early development and education.Carol Garhart Mooney has been an early childhood educator for more than forty years. She is also the author of Theories of Attachment, Use Your Words, and Swinging Pendulums.

Play skills are life skills; as children develop them, they also learn important social skills that they will use throughout their lives. Teachers will find successful strategies for implementing changes in the classroom to enhance the environment for play and techniques to help support children's development. This is the revised edition of the well-respected and relied-upon handbook Pathways to Play. Play contains activity ideas that encourage play skills, checklists to help identify where children are having problems, specific teaching strategies, and assessment options. This new edition also examines how play theory translates into practice.