Product Description: Designed to reliably measure the leadership and management practices of centre-based early childhood organizations, this is the only instrument of its kind to focus exclusively on organization-wide administrative issues.

Product Description: This is the Spanish translation of the The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS). The BAS is the first valid and reliable tool for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings...read more

Product Description: ''The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care is a long awaited resource tool that will help improve the quality of care in the family child care field. It is the first valid and reliable instrument to measure the business practices of providers, covering ten areas -- from fiscal management to provider-parent communications, to marketing...read more

Product Description: Blueprint for Action provides a framework for understanding early childhood centers as organizations and the dynamics of change within such organizations. It helps directors move beyond a "quick fix" notion of center improvement by serving as a guide for program analysis and action...read more

Product Description: This book dispels the myth that there is one best leadership style that all directors should emulate. It will help you understand the subtle but important distinction between leadership as a role and leadership as a set of skills and competencies that can be supported and nurtured at all levels of the organization...read more

Product Description: As workshop leader, your job is to ignite a passion for learning and to engage your participants as active partners in the learning process. Workshop Essentials will help you achieve that goal. Whatever your level of expertise, you'll appreciate the practical approach of this lively reference...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the director of an early childhood program, you are in a unique position to influence the decision-making policies and practices at your center. In this book, you'll learn that participative management is both a philosophy and a set of behaviors that define your interactions with people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Identifies the symptoms and causes of burnout and advises educators how to organize their time and environment to stave off job stress

Describes activities that help introduce children to art, music, math, science, and reading