This accessible book details the competencies, functions, and strategies that help members benefit from a positive group culture as they pursue their own learning.

This quick-read guide includes best practices for every stage of hiring, addresses legal issues, shows how to best involve teacher peers, and presents an interview approach that predicts on-the-job success.

Debunking common misconceptions and myths surround teaching and education.

This textbook brings together all aspects of play in one place. Covering a wide range of types of play, play pioneers and their theories, play environments, and how play relates to young children's learning and development, the chapters also draw out tensions and challenges for those working with young children.

This book introduces early years practitioners to some contemporary theorists and explores their work alongside more well-known thinkers.

Fully updated edition of essential resource for all who work with children under three, combining theory and practice.

Discover winning strategies from the nation's most outstanding college-readiness programs for Latino learners, including best practices for program design and mentoring that promote college preparation.

This book combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors' international experience to provide an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership.

Provides a comprehensive approach for building coalitions of support around student learning and engagement through interconnected classroom community-building effort.

Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.