This entertaining and informative guide provides both the big picture about work in early childhood classroomsthe theory of teaching young childrenand the details of developing and implementing preschool curriculum.

From Basketball to the Beatles: In Search of Compelling Early Childhood Curriculum

Education & Teaching

Mardell, Ben

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

High-quality child care has proven effective in longitudinal studies of the subsequent intellectual, emotional, and social growth of children. Ben Mardell has proven this too in his unique history of children who grew up at the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative where he was the afternoon preschool teacher. Combining compelling interviews and photos with his own research at Harvard and classroom experience, Ben has produced a book that is at once a scholarly study and one of the most visually and verbally eloquent books available about the education of young children. By looking closely at the experiences of one group in a high-quality center, he offers concrete data from children and parents about what child care entails, a model for child-care teachers for building an effective classroom, and an image of what is possible and a call to action.

Growing Up in Child Care: A Case for Quality Early Education

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

A progressive, research-based approach for making learning visible Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples. <ul>
<li>Show how to make learning happen in relation to others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning, and express ideas in multiple ways</li> <li>Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of student work</li> <li>Offer a new way to enhance learning using progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical thinking in and outside the classroom</li> </ul>
Visible Learners asks that teachers look beyond surface-level to understand who students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.

Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools

Wilson, Daniel

Krechevsky, Mara

Rivard, Melissa

Jossey-Bass

Children at the Center: Transforming Early Childhood Education in the Boston Public Schools

Children at the Center provides a closely observed account of a decade-long effort to reshape the scope, direction, and quality of the Boston Public Schools’ early childhood programs. Drawing on multiple perspectives and voices from the field, the authors highlight the reflective, collaborative, inquiry-driven approach undertaken by the program and share lessons learned. Boston Public Schools are recognized for embedding high-quality, public preK programs in their system and achieving exceptional results. In this book, the authors outline the core principles that underlie the district’s early childhood programs and explore the role of curriculum, professional development, coaching, and data use in supporting these new initiatives. They show how the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood was able to work with and against the constraints of the current accountability system to create a holistic, child-centered, play-based program that has had a significant impact in narrowing income-based learning gaps. Written in collaboration with the Department of Early Childhood Education, this account of creating successful preK programs in a diverse urban district will provide a valuable resource for practitioners engaged in similar work across the country.

Baker, Megina

Bardige, Betty

Harvard Education Press

Children at the Center provides a closely observed account of a decade-long effort to reshape the scope, direction, and quality of the Boston Public Schools’ early childhood programs. Drawing on multiple perspectives and voices from the field, the authors highlight the reflective, collaborative, inquiry-driven approach undertaken by the program and share lessons learned. Boston Public Schools are recognized for embedding high-quality, public preK programs in their system and achieving exceptional results. In this book, the authors outline the core principles that underlie the district’s early childhood programs and explore the role of curriculum, professional development, coaching, and data use in supporting these new initiatives. They show how the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood was able to work with and against the constraints of the current accountability system to create a holistic, child-centered, play-based program that has had a significant impact in narrowing income-based learning gaps. Written in collaboration with the Department of Early Childhood Education, this account of creating successful preK programs in a diverse urban district will provide a valuable resource for practitioners engaged in similar work across the country.

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From Basketball to the Beatles: In Search of Compelling Early Childhood Curriculum

Growing Up in Child Care: A Case for Quality Early Education

Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools

Children at the Center: Transforming Early Childhood Education in the Boston Public Schools

Children at the Center: Transforming Early Childhood Education in the Boston Public Schools