Redleaf Press: 191 books
HOT Skills
Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young Learners
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Too many teaching and learning activities require students to use only lower-order thinking (LOT), and many of the attempts educators make to promote higher-order thinking (HOT) are misconstrued. Higher-order thinking makes teaching and learning more engaging and intentional, adds intellectual rigor...
Prove It!
Achieving Quality Recognition for Your Early Childhood Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Pursuing third-party endorsements and accreditation is a significant undertaking for child care centers and preschools. Prove It! guides practitioners through the process of preparation, connecting criteria to classroom practices—including hygiene practices, quality interactions, quality learning...
Celebrate Nature!
Activities for Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Make nature an integral part of the classroom! With rising childhood obesity rates and children’s heavy use of electronics, the need for quality time in nature is greater than ever. Put away gadgets, turn off screens, and discover all that the natural world has to offer.
Celebrate Nature!...
by Wendy Banning, Ginny Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Early child care providers and educators, including preschool teachers, child care centers, and kindergarten teachers, will find this book to be a useful resource. It may also be used in academic settings as a textbook in courses such as early childhood, human development, preschool/kindergarten curriculum,...
Celebrate!
An Anti-Bias Guide to Including Holidays in Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Updated information and unbiased, developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays. Many programs are establishing a "no holiday" policy, but this book shows you how to celebrate and adhere to school policy. Among other topics,...
Robotics for Young Children
STEM Activities and Simple Coding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
STEM, robotics, and coding are hot topics
Coding is very popular in early elementary
This book uses a foundational approach that is play-based and child-centered using blocking. It is a clear and simple introduction to coding concepts
Includes 100 activities. None of these activities...
Learning from the Children
Reflecting on Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Written with over 20 years of personal experiences in numerous roles within early childhood education settings 2. Suitable for use in child development classes or introduction to classroom teaching courses 3. Relatable material that will inspire staff from within 4. This book is written to teachers about the changes felt within as a result of building relationships with children
by Karrie Kalich, Lynn Arnold, Carole Russell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Discover delicious new ways to provide healthy meals in preschool settings. Packed with more than seventy breakfast, lunch, snack, and special celebration recipes, this hands-on cookbook promotes the development of healthy eating habits in young children. Anchored by wholesome ingredients, these recipes...
Building Together
Collaborative Leadership in Early Childhood Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Author is well connected in the field of early childhood professionals in California. She serves as the Program Director of the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles.
Systems building is the process that transforms the delivery of direct services and the infrastructure into an organized system
This...
by Jarrod Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the...
Let's Talk Toddlers
A Practical Guide to High-Quality Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A practical guide focused on toddlers only
Includes everything a toddler teacher would need to know
Each chapter includes real-life vignettes that show best practices in action, teacher tips, the child's point of view, action skills for success, fast facts/why this works, resources for...
Making Lemonade
Teaching Young Children to Think Optimistically
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The concept of learned optimism, while well established in research, is relatively unknown in teacher education and in early childhood classrooms and family child care practice. Making Lemonade is a first-to-market book that offers a straightforward, easy-to-do approach to help develop optimism in...
by Donna C. Hurley, Sharon Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Learn the skills and best practices to make receiving visits more productive and worry-free
As a family child care professional, you nurture and teach children during their most formative years. Being a family child care provider also means you must attend to families, licensors, food program...
by Nichole A. Baumgart, Linda R. Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
STEAM is a development and extension of the original STEM efforts with the goal to support innate creativity and innovation that all children possess. This book serves as a platform for educators to observe and facilitate infants and toddlers natural curiosities around STEAM concepts. The text discusses...