If you are a child care business owner having difficulty with finding great employees, struggle with getting your staff to do basic tasks, or are constantly fighting off gossip and negativity, this book is for you. This comprehensive book written with the goal of helping child care programs lower their staff turnover rates takes you through all the necessary steps to set up your workplace culture for success, starting with personal leadership. She covers everything you need to know to set up operational systems, close communication gaps in your school, and resolve conflicts between team members. She also shares hiring and interviewing basics, reveals 32 Culture Crushers to avoid, and provides 76 ready-to-implement ideas to help you improve the culture in your center - with examples from successful child care business owners. There is so much jammed into this book you

This practical and accessible guide tackles the challenges that busy childcare educators face with their mental health in what is a wonderful, rewarding, but often exhausting role. Drawing from "day-in-the-life" experiences and case studies, this book sets out high-quality staff wellbeing practices that can revolutionise the way childcare practitioners approach their job and their own health. Chapters guide the reader through a process of reflection and development, encouraging and empowering them to create a workplace culture that positively contributes to their personal wellbeing. This book: • Focuses on the realities of Early Years education, combining the author's lived experience with examples of real-life practice. • Encourages educators to think and feel positively about themselves; to identify the individual skills, strengths and talents they bring to their work. • Can be used individually or collaboratively by team members, with guidance on creating a positive workplace culture with a shared vision, core values and beliefs. Essential reading for anybody who finds that the job they love can sometimes leave them feeling worn out, stressed and depleted, this book has been written to enrich the lives of all training and practising Early Years Educators.

This book is written for early childhood business owners wanting to grow their business into a (multi) million-dollar company. Anyone from the home daycare provider that dreams of one day opening a center, to the small center owner who dreams of having a larger center or a single center owner that wishes to have multiple centers. Brian shares 101 golden nuggets to bring your business greater success. He shares secrets to successful operations, financial insights, management principles, employee management tips, and expansion strategies. He has also included business profiles of more than fifteen center owners who have all created seven figure child care businesses, so you can learn from and be inspired by their stories. If you are ready for the ultimate in child care business success, you'll want to get yourself a copy of this gem!

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

"This practical guide details evidence-based strategies for implementing the Pyramid Model from the creators of the Pyramid Model. It is written for classroom teachers who are novice users of the model to help them understand the principles and use the practices. Unpacking the Pyramid Model is the definitive resource to help teachers improve their classroom practices to support social emotional competence and prevent challenging behavior"--