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Keep children at the center of your curriculum! This handbook helps you rethink emergent themes, materials, and more. Use the charts, assessment tools, and spaces for notes to record your progress. Each chapter ends with a story by a teacher like you. Includes a chapter on infant/toddler care and a resource section.

"Margie and Deb have taken on and succeeded in the onerous task of translating the complexities of child-centered teaching into a call for action. For classroom teachers, this book will resonate loudly and clearly the authorsí deep sense of practical reality and their ethical commitment to the precious state of childhood."
—John Nimmo, author, Emergent Curriculum; faculty, Pacific Oaks College

"This excellent manual is the first curriculum handbook that ....