Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems. Many children come to care with early signs of mental- or behavioral-health issues. Early childhood professionals are often the first to notice that something is different.

How Can I Help? is a practical guide that helps educators first identify issues and then create nurturing, safe, and successful learning environments to set up all children for success.

Learn how to:
• Promote mental health for all children in your care
• Identify signs of behavioral-health issues in children and family members
• Support children who have specific behavioral-health difficulties
• Work with the families of children with behavioral-health challenges

• A practical guide that helps educators first identify issues and then create nurturing, safe, and successful learning environment
• Soft Cover
• Social-Emotional guide
• 132 pages

The Coaching Partnership provides educators with a unique approach to instructional coaching centered on reciprocal accountability for continuous improvement. With this essential resource, teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators will have the guidance and tools they need to implement a collaborative coaching system—one that will improve instruction and maximize student learning in their schools.
This accessible guide also contains real-life vignettes, coaching-in-action videos, ideas for productive partnerships, reflective practice questions, and a planning tool that helps each member of the coaching team reflect, collaborate, and take purposeful, immediate action—all with the goal of creating a learning environment where students thrive.

Every day, 250 children are suspended from school. Many are children of color, deprived of opportunities to experience learning at the same rate and quality as white children. Many families don't feel heard or respected in their child's schools. Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms leads early childhood professionals to explore and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences. Importantly, this book will challenge you to consider your perceptions and thought processes.

• This book explores and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences
• Soft Cover
• Anti-Bias Education
• 144 pages

The book that started it all—is completely revised! Why would the Kagans update a classic that has sold nearly half a million copies? The answer: So much has changed! Cooperative Learning today is different. This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement and achievement. You'll still find all the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview—direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. And there's still plenty of ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. But in this expanded edition, you will find new step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. You hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form of cooperative learning ever. The Kagans make it easy for you to dramatically increase engagement and achievement in your class!

• This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods, and makes it easy to boost engagement and achievement
• Many step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods
• Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community

Sure, you know that children learn best through hands-on explorations. How does that work in a real classroom? With jam-packed days and mounting expectations, you're pressed for time and pushed to follow standards-based curricula. It's no wonder you struggle to incorporate STEAM activities each day.

Provoking Curiosity brings new and easy-to-execute STEAM learning experiences that encourage children to think, explore, and wonder. Each exploration builds on core ideas in the STEAM disciplines, develops higher-level thinking skills, and uses readily available materials in early childhood classrooms.

Learn how to use STEAM provocations throughout your busy day:
• Jump-start the morning
• Decompress and reenergize midday
• Occupy children who complete assigned classroom work early
• Incentivize children to complete a goal
• Transition between the busier times of day and planned classroom work times
• End the day building children's collaboration and communication skills

• STEAM learning experiences that encourage children to think, explore, and wonder
• Soft Cover
• 88 pages
• Play based learning that develops higher-level thinking skills

Recipient of Creative Child Magazine's 2018 Kids' Product of the Year Award and 2018 Travel Fun of the Year Award, Summer Bridge Activities is a distinguished series that engages children's creativity and learning potential.

Give your soon-to-be fourth grader a head start on their upcoming school year with Summer Bridge Activities: Bridging Grades 3–4. With daily, 15-minute exercises, kids can review calculating area and using quotation marks and learn new skills like fractions, similes, and metaphors. In just 15 minutes a day, this workbook series helps to prevent summer learning loss while paving the way toward a successful new school year.

And this is no average workbook—Summer Bridge Activities keeps the fun and the sun in summer break! Designed to prevent summer learning loss by keeping kids mentally and physically active, the hands-on exercises can be done anywhere. These standards-based activities help kids set goals, develop character, practice fitness, and explore the outdoors. With 12 weeks of creative learning, Summer Bridge Activities keeps skills sharp all summer long!

• This book helps prevent summer learning loss in just 15 minutes a day
• Children will review skills from the previous school year and preview skills for the next grade
• Includes language arts, math, and science activities
• Bonus features include fitness, character development, critical thinking, and outdoor learning
• 160 pages

Chalk up your organization to the convenience of this all-in-one book. There is plenty of space for lesson plans, attendance records and grades for 40 weeks of school. It also includes a student roster, a birthday chart, monthly planning calendars, and a grading chart. Spiral-bound.

• Chalk up your organization to the convenience of this all-in-one book
• There is plenty of space for lesson plans, attendance records and grades for 40 weeks of school
• It also includes a student roster, a birthday chart, monthly planning calendars, and a grading chart
• Spiral-bound, 160 pages

This timely book counters the devastatinging effects of racism on children's learning with a focus on revolutionary love. Sharing ways they've overcome personal and professional challenges in their teaching, the authors show readers how to unpack unconscious biases and examine common, but inherently racist practices that make learning difficult or impossible for many children of color. They offer in return practices that affirm and celebrate all students' identities, languages, and cultures- building a community of engaged, valued, and thoughtful learners. You'll find guidelines for selecting diverse children's books, and ways to use those books in reading and writing lessons that help children identify both glaring and veiled forms of racism and take an anti-racist stance. If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color and their families bring to school, this is the book for you.

• Provides tools for exploring oneself, one's systems, and one's curriculum to gather baseline information to create more inclusive, culturally sensitive environments for children.
• Suggests teaching ideas that can be applied seamlessly and smoothly to the existing reading and writing program
• Offers guidelines for reaching out to families and the community to enhance curriculum
• Speaks to all concerned teachers, regardless of their own cultural background, geographic location, or class make-up
• Authors have worked as classroom teachers, university researchers, and teacher educators

While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing. Creative Investigations in Early Art provides them with an inquisitive, explorative approach to boost young learners' creativity and critical-thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills through artistic expression.

Each chapter provides educators with practical ideas for intentionally fostering young children's hands-on, minds-on explorations connecting the following areas of the creative arts to STEM:
• Music and Movement
• Dramatic Arts
• Visual Arts
• Artists and Artworks

• Each chapter provides educators with practical ideas for intentionally fostering young children's hands-on, minds-on explorations
• Pages: 112
• Great for STEM/STEAM learning
• Ages 4-6

Dr. Julia B. Lindsey's evidence-based routines help young readers decode words efficiently so they can spend more energy on comprehending—and enjoying—what they read! Sure to appeal to those following the science of reading, given its emphasis on the English language and how it works (orthography, morphology, etc.). Follows a clear, developmental continuum, from decoding to crack one-syllable words to chunking to crack multisyllabic words. Contextualizes foundational skills by exploring their connections to fluency and comprehension, cultural responsiveness, and joyful learning. Author has worked as a classroom teacher, university researcher, and teacher educator.

• Backed by leading research on effectively early reading instruction practices.
• Sure to appeal to those following the science of reading, given its emphasis on the English language and how it works (orthography, morphology, etc.)
• Follows a clear, developmental continuum, from decoding to crack one-syllable words to chunking to crack multisyllabic words
• Contextualizes foundational skills by exploring their connections to fluency and comprehension, cultural responsiveness, and joyful learning.
• Author has worked as a classroom teacher, university researcher, and teacher educator.