Young childrens learning depends on a wide range of experiences that support their holistic development. While many different curricular frameworks are used around the world, there is increasing agreement that the emerging academic skills of language and literacy, mathematics.
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Based on the authors' extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on ......
What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
Finnish Lessons 3.0 updates the Grawemeyer Award Winning book about how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provides a world-class education for all of its young people.
Now available in 30 languages, this book continues to influence education policies and school ......
This lavishly illustrated book will help educators create the highest quality learning opportunities for a new generation of children. The Second Edition features substantial and important changes, including the addition of new chapters by pioneers of the work that happens in the atelier who draw on several decades of experience. The atelier, ......
The new and sixth edition of The New Meaning of Educational Change is unlike any of its predecessors. Michael Fullan first provides a deeply critical account of the last 60 years of educational change across the world with a focus on the United States. He then presents a radically different future based on learnings from the past and innovative ......
The host of the internationally popular early childhood podcast "That Early Childhood Nerd" provides a framework for understanding the importance of free play. Free play is disappearing from the lives of too many young children, leaving them vulnerable to negative effects on their physical and mental health, social and emotional growth, and ......
Decades of research has shown that introducing STEM content like coding and engineering during the foundational early childhood years can lead to many benefits, such as improving children's number sense, problem-solving skills, and sequencing ability. Unfortunately, the costs of STEM technologies can be a barrier for many early childhood ......
The Four Curricular Subscales Extension to the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R) with Planning Notes
This title is in the Environment Rating Scale (R) Family of Products. ECERS-E is designed to be used with the Early Childhood Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), an internationally recognized measure of quality in education and care written by Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford, and Debby Cryer. It not only complements the ECERS-R but extends the ......
Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities
In this groundbreaking book, Eduardo Duran-a psychologist working in Indian country-draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations.