An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children's sense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, their families, and their community. Rethinking the Classroom Landscape invites educators and administrators to rethink the traditional classroom, with inspirational examples showing how to weave elements that reflect each center's community into the classroom design and decoration. Colorful photos show what teachers can do to encourage a sense of community unique to each classroom. Easy-to-implement ideas and strategies are based on five guideposts that help educators create early childhood environments that vividly connect children, adults, and the surrounding community. These community environments include connections to past and present, geography, typography, flora, and fauna.

Rethinking the Classroom Landscape: Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities

Education & Teaching

Sandra Duncan Edd

Jody Martin

Rebecca Kreth

Schools & Teaching

Gryphon House

Classroom design is a crucial component of an effective learning environment. Through a Childs Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning, Behavior, and Wonder brings a new approach that begins and ends with the child's viewpoint. Each chapter details how the classroom environment influences children's learning, and the authors provide specific examples of how educators can use the children's perspective to make their classrooms a place of joy and possibility.

Through a Childs Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning and Wonder

Sandra Duncan

Sally Haughey

American cowboys loved the flash of silver at their heels and on their horses. Between 1850 and 1970 western craftsmen responded to the cowboys' needs by creating intricately engraved silver bits and spurs that are avidly collected today. This handy reference book covers 100 makers and some saddleries in seven western states and the Northeast. Included for each maker are time lines and detailed photographs of their marks and engraving style as well as indications of the current collectibility, relative value and scarcity of their pieces. This pocket guide is based on the more comprehensive book, Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition: A Historical Perspective which has 650 stunning color photographs of bit and spur makers from more than 45 collections. It has an extensive index and bibliography as well as complete biographies of more than 100 makers.

Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition: Pocket Guide

Ned Martin

Hawk Hill Press

This is the definitive book on all the old bit and spur makers of the Texas region who were working between 1870 and 1970. There are 63 makers featured with stunning photographs of their work, their maker's mark and a biography of each maker. The origins of the Texas style are traced in the history of bits and spurs brought to the New World from England, France and Spain.

Bit & Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition: A Historical Perspective by Ned Martin, Jody Martin (2001) Hardcover

History

Americas

This handy pocket-sized edition of the larger book by the same name packs all the essential reference material into a more portable edition. With more makers as well as indications of collectibility, value and scarcity for each bit and spur maker, this handy guide is the perfect complement to the larger book at home in your library.

Bit and Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition, Pocket Guide

Reference

Kurt House

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