Go beyond reading about early learning theories and see what they look like in action in modern programs and teacher practices. With classroom vignettes and colorful photographs, this book makes the works of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, Abraham Maslow, John Dewey, Howard Gardner, and Louise Derman-Sparks visible, accessible, and easier to understand. Each theory is defined—through engaging stories and rich visuals—in relation to cognitive, social-emotional, and physical developmental domains. Use this book to build a stronger comprehension of the foundations of early learning theories and become more reflective and intentional in your work with young children.

Early Learning Theories Made Visible

Literature & Fiction

Daly, Lisa

Beloglovsky, Miriam

Poetry

Redleaf Press

Winner of the 2015 Brain Child Award from Tillywig &amp; Toy Media Awards Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning. The hundreds of inspiring photographs showcase an array of loose parts in real early childhood settings. And the overviews of concepts children can learn when using loose parts provide the foundation for incorporating loose parts into your teaching to enhance play and empower children. The possibilities are truly endless.

Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children (Loose Parts Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' Choice Award for Preschool 2018 Winner! Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant and toddler environments. Captivating classroom stories and proven science provide the context for how this style of play supports children's development and learning. This book is perfect for Montessori and Reggio-inspired programs and educators.

Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers (Loose Parts Series)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. Loose Parts 3, the 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-color photographs beautifully illustrate the ongoing need for educational pedagogy that 
<li>creates a sense of belonging</li>
 <li>supports children's identities</li>
 <li>is culturally responsive and sustainable</li>
 Loose Parts 3 contains inspiration and guidance on how to create culturally sensitive and culturally sustainable early childhood environments through six key terms: aesthetic, authenticity, equity, dynamic, praxis, and critical reflection. Use your environment to promote a sense of wonder, curiosity and joy, and allow children to explore their identities.

Loose Parts 3: Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments (Loose Parts Series)

Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials―acorns, hardware, stones, aluminum foil, fabric scraps, for example―that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free rein to their imagination, and encourage creativity. In the newest installment of the wildly popular, award-winning Loose Parts series, Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky focus on including families and competency building. With inspiring full-color photographs Loose Parts 4 is organized around competencies and life skills children need for success in the future: knowingness, engagement, risk, connections, leadership, innovative thinking, and creativity. Lisa and Miriam explain the value of loose parts, detail how to integrate loose parts into the environment and children’s play, and specifically focus on loose parts for children in family environments―helping educators engage families and extend learning beyond the classroom.

Loose Parts 4: Inspiring 21st-Century Learning

Review\n"Wow! What an attractive and eminently practical book. Lisa Daly provides lavish photographic examples of how to transform early childhood play yards and home backyards. It's easy to say, 'I want one of those' and understand how you could create one of those spaces easily and economically. It's a feast of good ideas." --David Sobel, author of The Sky Above and the Mud Below and Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens, professor emeritus in the Education Department at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. 
"What Lisa Daly brings to the environments is truly transforming in so many ways. Lisa can create learning-rich environments where children and adults are able to create their own imaginations at every turn. The environments she creates have changed the quality of our family childcare homes, the homes cultivate exploration for the children and the providers. Providers have learned to understand what children need and how to incorporate it into their homes. I have watched providers regain a spark for teaching by transforming their learning environments. Lisa is an incredible wealth of knowledge and her passion for transforming environments is contagious." --Clara Nakai, coordinator Early Head Start/ Family Child Care Homes, Modesto City Schools, Early Childhood Education\nTransforming 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.\nTransforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach that: 
Requires minimal financial resources Features loose parts and upcycled materials Integrates nature Includes inspiring photos of before and after transformations Offers design tips and material lists Describes 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

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Loose Parts in Action: The Essential How-To Guide

This is one bus ride you don't want to miss! Join Papa Cannoli as he shares his Italian-American heritage during bus rides to school. From painting like Michelangelo to filling and selling Cannoli, Papa's bus rides are always an adventure!

Papa Cannoli and his Zany Italian School Bus

Children's Books

Nightingale Books

As a coroner, Dr. Marv Henderson is more comfortable around corpses than with the living, especially his adult daughter, Mary, who refuses to speak to him. But when members of his book club are murdered the same way as characters in the mystery novel they're reading, he unwittingly leads the killer to his daughter's doorstep. And when a romance with a fellow book club member, the mysterious Lyla Baxter, finally seems possible, Dr. Marv fears she's involved in the serial killing and is nothing more than a deadly distraction.

Mystery, Ink.: A Novel Way to Die

Romance

Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC

Loose Parts - kleine Dinge, große Schätze: Ideen für das Spielen und Lernen mit Alltags- und Naturmaterialien

Bananenblau UG

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