The Visionary Director, Third Edition

The Visionary Director, Third Edition
Author: Margie Carter
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605547298

Create a larger vision in your child care program and perform your job as a center director with motivation and creativity. Early childhood leaders Deb Curtis, Margie Carter, and Luz Casio provide inspiration and support in this newly updated edition of The Visionary Director. The third edition reflects new requirements and initiatives in early childhood programs adds QR Code access links with short video stories and print resources that further illuminate the ideas under consideration has a stronger focus on creating an organizational culture that is shaped by more diverse perspectives with an anti-racist, anti-bias, equity lens updates content to address current early childhood education trends and leadership for an expanded definition of quality Find a concrete framework for approaching and organizing your work, as well as principles, strategies, and self-directed activities to support your vision for building a strong learning community for your staff and the young children in their care.

Variance in Approach Toward a ‘Sustainable’ Coffee Industry in Costa Rica

Variance in Approach Toward a ‘Sustainable’ Coffee Industry in Costa Rica
Author: Melissa Vogt
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1911529781

Dr. Melissa Vogt considers the influence of Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade in coffee farming communities of Costa Rica from 2009-2019. Sustainability certifications schemes are working amongst a range of sustainability efforts, unique by their intra market location. The intentions of each certification scheme must be clarified prior to evaluation and their influence considered amongst contextually specific historic and contemporary considerations, and alongside the range of sustainability efforts. The advantages and disadvantages, opportunities for improvement and how alternative mechanisms might improve upon or complement sustainability certification schemes are explained. An epilogue considers how prioritisation of coffee as a cash crop may align with sustainability. The influence on biodiversity, community health and income, and the possible implication of reduced coffee crop density for consumers, the market and farming landscapes is considered. How sustainability standards might better encourage more ambitious sustainability in farming landscapes is for future consideration.

The Visionary Director

The Visionary Director
Author: Margie Carter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Day care centers
ISBN: 9781884834554

This book "is an inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care. It offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood director's thoughts and work. Chapters cover cultivating a vision, developing 'system thinking' for management roles, implementing principles and strategies for mentoring, and building a learning community for adults and children." - back cover.

The Secret of the Plátano

The Secret of the Plátano
Author: Luz Maria Mack
Publisher: Soaring Kite Books
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1953859380

Under the full moon, Abuela leads an enchanted dance, bows to the sky and the night winds, and helps her curious grandson discover the rhythm of his heartbeat while listening to the great secret of the plátanos. At first his tiny ears couldn't hear it, but Abuela shares that she can't teach something that only her heart knows. This loving and tender story of the magical union between a grandmother and her grandson was penned by Dominican author, Luz Maria Mack, and inspired by a dream where she and her Abuela met again to dance and share the secrets of the plátanos. Sometimes the secrets of life are written in nature, under the stars, and in the sounds of the whispering leaves.

Spaghetti Westerns

Spaghetti Westerns
Author: Christopher Frayling
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006-01-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781845112073

“Christopher Frayling's Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti Westerns as popular entertainments, to celebrate their cinematic stylishness, while simultaneously knowledgeably exploring their many social and political dimensions.” – Gary Crowdus, Cineaste “Unquestionably the single best book written about the Western.” – Journal of Popular Film and Television

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice
Author: Anne Marie Coughlin
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605547417

As the field of early learning continues to grow and evolve, we must consider the impact of our approaches to working with adults and children. Early childhood professionals and leaders need to reconcile their responsibilities in never-ending administrative tasks, ensuring program quality, and supporting the growth of others. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Child Programs is a comprehensive practical look at creating systems, structures, and protocols for supporting people in large and small organizations, individuals working as mentors, coaches or pedagogical leaders to invite educators into a thinking and learning process about their work. Readers will develop the skills and mindsets that can enhance their performance and effect organizational change. Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice offers stories and structures connected to four principles of pedagogical leadership with specific ideas to enhance the work of educational leaders. Working from a place of values and vision Building strong relationships Seeing and supporting strengths and competencies Supporting professional learning in multiple ways

Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens

Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605544299

Everything you need to get started and succeed in a nature preschool or forest kindergarten.

Nature-Based Learning for Young Children

Nature-Based Learning for Young Children
Author: Julie Powers
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160554597X

Nature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice nature educators to highly experienced nature educators in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson plans, guidance and health and safety issues related to nature activities, ideas for free/inexpensive equipment and materials and for big ticket items, ideas for family involvement, and connections to early childhood learning standards. Chapters are divided by nature topic so readers can dip in right away where they want to start exploring.

Saving Play

Saving Play
Author: Thomas Rendon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781605545301

"Saving Play addresses two questions critical to the field of early childhood education: Can child-directed, open-ended play activities in preschool and kindergarten classrooms address early learning and Common Core standards? and Can play be used to reach specific goals and objectives across all developmental domains? Authors Thomas Rendon and Gaye Gronlund answer both of these questions with a resounding yes and believe play, academics, and standards can and do work together"--