Leadership Library

Whether you are new to a leadership position, a seasoned manager, or a trainer the Leadership Library will give you access to tools and wisdom from experienced experts in their field. These books feature insights on coaching, training, leading, and cooperation within your early childhood focused center or organization.

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Being a Supervisor

Are you aspiring to become a supervisor in an early childhood program? Or, have you been in a leadership role for years? Whatever your experience level, this book provides insight, guidance, and exercises to enhance your leadership skills. Being a Supervisor focuses on eight concepts that will help you transition from leading children to leading adults. You will:

Recognize and feel comfortable in your role as a supervisor

Help adults succeed by expressing clear and reasonable expectations

Create a culture that encourages input and allows for mistakes

Motivate your team through delegation

Communicate honestly and share feedback consistently

Follow through on all tasks

Stay connected by knowing and encouraging each employee

Set a positive tone and be approachable to all staff

112 pages

Evaluating and Supporting Early Childhood Teachers

There's a lot of conversation in the early childhood community on evaluating teachers to improve their performance. Raising the quality of early care and education is a priority for policymakers and practitioners on local, state, and federal levels. As a result, much attention is being focused on early childhood educators to ensure that they do a good—and better—job teaching young children. This book provides accessible information, guidance, techniques, and tools to aid you—whether you are a director, coach, principal, or hold another leadership role—as you evaluate and support teachers in a way that encourages and enables them to do their best work with children.

176 pages

Five Elements of Collective Leadership

Collective leadership is a new system of leadership based on shared decision-making, transparency, and involving the people affected by change in the process. It’s a model in which everyone at times can lead, and at other times follow. Current research shows that a collective approach to leadership is advantageous to organizations, and this book shows how it can be implemented specifically in the field of early childhood education.

Five Elements of Collective Leadership for Early Childhood Professionals is for anyone wanting to:

• explore your classroom, team, organization, or coalition in a way that allows all voices to be heard
• provide a more equitable distribution of power
• utilize the gifts of all team members
• engage everyone one their team in a common vision

O’Neill and Brinkerhoff help readers think differently about the way they lead, whether they’re teachers, providers, administrators, or system change leaders.

156 pages

Twelve Essential Topics in Early Childhood

Twelve Essential Topics in Early Childhood is a must-have tool for program administrators to prepare successful, high-quality professional development experiences for their staff. This book offers high-quality professional development made easy, and contains twelve topics, one for each month of the year, with two hours of content on each topic. The twelve topics covered are:

1. We Are All Alike: We Are All Different
2. Focusing on Families
3. Connecting with Children: Interactions and Relationships
4. Guidance that Works!
5. Stop, Look, and Learn: The Value of Observation
6. Creative Indoor Environments: Room Arrangement as a Guide to Learning and Behavior
7. Technology is Terrific!
8. Do the Right Thing: Ethics and Professionalism
9. Come Play with Me
10. Let’s Go Outside
11. Super Science FUN!
12. Brain Development: The Basics

Twelve Essential Topics in Early Childhood also includes:

• an agenda and outline for each topic
• materials list
• ready-made handouts
• instructions for activities
• a CD-ROM with twelve customizable PowerPoint presentations, reproducibles for each topic, and certificates of completion

These professional experiences can be modified to be part of an ongoing college class or child development credential.

176 pages

Graceful Leadership in Early Childhood Education

Graceful Leadership in Early Childhood Education is a book to turn to when there is a challenge that needs tackling, when you need a boost of inspiration, or when you just want to reflect on your own journey.

What is your leadership journey? What’s lit your path along the way? What challenges have you had to hurdle? Any unexpected twists, turns, or forks in the road? Did you follow the sign posts or blaze a new trail? Regardless of position, we all have a story or two or three about our journey.

Former NAEYC board member and award-winning early childhood leader Ann McClain Terrell shares lessons she’s learned during her 35+ years in the field. Graceful Leadership in Early Childhood shares how she maintained her signature graceful approach to being a more capable and effective leader in the field of early childhood. Told in a narrative, inspirational, and practical way this is a book that shows how theory/personal experience can be used and put into action. A great resource to turn to when there is a challenge that needs tackling, or if you just need to reflect on your own journey.

112 pages

Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators

Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators is a reflective guidebook designed to help early childhood professionals strengthen their coaching skills and their ability to facilitate transformational learning in others. The goal of this program is for individuals to attain sustainable habits of self-reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning themselves, as well as the ability to intentionally facilitate others to do the same.

The GROOMER Framework for Change Model™ is a mental model that offers an intentional framework to facilitate transformational lasting change. This guidebook can be used by supervisors working with staff or peer-to-peer but is recommended to be used with another person to get the full benefit of transformational coaching.

136 pages

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice

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 the responsibility between 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

200 pages

Learning to Lead 3rd Edition

Working with children requires you to be an adaptable leader and teacher, no matter the setting. Learning to Lead will help early childhood professionals at any level cultivate leadership potential and skills with an introduction to leadership theory and practice, including definitions of the functions and styles of leadership.

The roles of empowerment, followership, and advocacy in the leadership process are covered, as well as how to facilitate the leadership development of others. Child care professionals will use their knowledge of child development to understand how to transfer their natural skills to a range of leadership situations. Each chapter is built around a combination of theories, examples, and reflection questions, concluding with a vignette and references for further study.

The third edition includes:

• Updated and expanded material on working with children in a culturally diverse community while addressing the racial and social injustice and inequity in society
• Updated and expanded material on how bias, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, and inequity intersect with cultural differences and diversity
• Updated resources for further reading
• A new chapter on how to create a leadership and advocacy plan based on topics, reflections, and questions in from the book, to help you take on a leadership role in your program.

176 pages

Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators

Bring new energy into your early childhood professional learning experiences! Supercharge Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators empowers trainers, workshop facilitators, and early childhood program leaders to transform their current professional development practices, offering innovative and concrete ideas for supporting educators. The timely and inspiring resources in this handbook will increase engagement, build collaboration, and enhance all aspects of any professional development program. The wealth of information and guidance in this handbook includes:

• 101 specific strategies, tools, and activities featuring well-researched techniques for engaging all adult learners with respect for the unique needs of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
• Inspirational tips and strategies from highly regarded speakers, authors, and researchers, including interviews and video clips available via QR codes.
• Suggested resources for designing and implementing professional learning experiences.
• Planning tools and templates for designing a variety of professional development experiences.
• Examples of workshop activities with adaptations for group size, diverse adult learning styles, and live or virtual events.

Age Focus: 0–8. Softbound, 224 pgs.