Grounded in current research and theory, this practical book guides program leaders and staff developers to design and implement engaging professional development and coaching approaches. It focuses on early educator competencies essential for high-quality learning and teaching--executive functions, emotion regulation, relationship skills, and talk for learning. Illustrated with an extended vignette of an early learning center, the book highlights how addressing educators' professional needs is a pathway to children's cognitive, social–emotional, and academic growth. User-friendly features include 24 reproducible checklists, handouts, and self-study and planning tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education: 7 Steps for Schools and Districts Ken Kay and Valerie Greenhill A 7-Steps blueprint for educational leaders to help their schools and districts prepare students for the challenges of the 21st ...
The New Leader’s Guide to Early Childhood Settings explores how to empower educators and caregivers, advocate for early intervention, promote culturally responsive teaching, and confront common fears and hurdles.
The New Leader's Guide to Early Childhood Settings explores how to empower educators and caregivers, advocate for early intervention, promote culturally responsive teaching, and confront common fears and hurdles.
The book helps school leaders build deeper understandings about preschool curriculum content and organization and appropriate instructional strategies as well as the socioemotional, physical, and cognitive behavior of preschoolers --
Special education is often a confusing and expensive consideration of running a school.
Early Literacy Matters is an innovative action guide for elementary school leaders and instructional coaches dedicated to accelerating literacy performance in the early grades, when prevention of reading difficulties matters most.
In A Guidance Guide for Early Childhood Leaders, Dan explores secure relationships as the foundation for guidance and how to build them with children, families, and colleagues.
The guidance in this book is explained with simple, easy-to-implement strategies you can apply immediately to your own practice and is accompanied by brainstorming questions to help educational leaders both new to and experienced with ...
The authors provide a research-based and field-tested model for school discipline that includes interventions for students with emotional, behavioral, and conduct disorders (including bullying), developmental disabilities, and autism.
Having this guide will guarantee success and getting the best out of all stakeholders." —Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal John C. Dore Elementary, Chicago, IL "The book is just what the doctor ordered for busy leaders—short and concise." ...