Books

ID	Title	Author	Publisher	ISBN	<< Click heading to sort
1	The Anti-Ordinary Thinkbook: A Stimulating Tool for Staff Training and Team-Building in Early Childhood Programs	Bonnie Neugebauer	Bantom	22-000-0001	Purchase at Amazon.com!
2	Training Teachers, A Harvest of Theory and Practice	Margie Carter, Deb Curtis, and Elizabeth Jones	Redleaf Press	33-000-0002	Purchase at Amazon.com!
3	The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook	Peter Senge,Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, Charlotte Roberts and Art Kleiner	Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd	1857880609	Purchase at Amazon.com!
4	Managing from the Heart	Hyler Bracey, Jack Rosenblum, Aubry Sanford and Roy Trueblood	Dell	0440504724	Purchase at Amazon.com!
5	The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen Covey	Free Press	0743269519	Purchase at Amazon.com!
6	1001 Ways to Reward Employees	Bob Nelson	Workman Publishing Company	0761136819	Purchase at Amazon.com!
7	C.A.R.E. Packages for the Workplace: Dozens of Little Things You Can Do To Regenerate Spirit At Work	Barbara A. Glanz	McGraw-Hill	0070242674	Purchase at Amazon.com!
8	A Guide To Effective Administration In Child Care	Dora Fowler	Woodhaven Pub., L.L.C	B00072N8KK	Purchaseat Amazon.com!
9	So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center	Gallagher	Mosby	0943135532	Purchase at Amazon.com!
10	The Business of Child Care: Management and Financial Strategies	Gail H Jack	CENGAGE Delmar Learning	1401851800	Purchase at Amazon.com!
11	Planning, Promoting and Managing Your Childcare Business	Colleen Martinson		1412013100	Purchase at Amazon.com!
12	Leadership is an Art	Max Depree	DTP; Reissue edition	0440503248	Purchase at Amazon.com!
13	Families on the Fault Line	Lillian B. Rubin	Perennial	006092229X	Purchase at Amazon.com!
14	The Underground History of American Education	John Tayor Gatto	Oxford Village Press (2001)	0-945-70004-0	Purchase at Amazon.com!
14	Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence	Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley	Atlantic Monthy Press (February 1, 1999)	1579830021	Purchase at Amazon.com!
14	For Your Own Good : Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence	Alice Miller	Noonday Press; 3rd edition (September 1990)	0374522693	Purchase at Amazon.com!
15	You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School (And Other Simple Truths of Leadership)	Mac Anderson	Simple Truths	B0012SLXSM	Purchase at Amazon.com!
16	The Science of Parenting	Margot Sunderland	DK ADULT; Reprint edition (September 1, 2008)	075663993X	Purchase at Amazon.com!
17	Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Educational Innovation- Physics)	Eric Mazur	Benjamin Cummings; Pap/Dis edition (August 8, 1996)	0135654416	Purchase at Amazon.com!
18	Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Postmodern Perspectives	G. Dahlberg	Falmer Press	0750707690	Purchase at Amazon.com!
19	The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections	Carolyn Edwards	Ablex Publishing; 2 edition (April 21, 1998)	156750311X	Purchase at Amazon.com!
20	Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity	David Allen	Penguin Books	ISBN 0-14-200028-0	Purchase at Amazon.com!
21	Ready for Anything - 52 Productivity Priciples for Work and Life	David Allen	Penguin Books	ISBN 0-670-03250-6	Purchase at Amazon.com!

Videos

ID	Title	Description	Publisher	ReleaseDate	AISN	<< Click heading to sort
1	Creative Beginnings	60 minutes long -includes Howard Gardner, Reggio Italy, The Key School in Indiana, cartoonist, children's museum, musicians, Odyssey of the Mind, etc. What is creativity and how is creativity encouraged and promoted and how it is killed and discouraged.		1991
2	Times with Toddlers	22.31 minutes training for caregivers - the images of Time with Toddlers are meant to replace the bad rap toddlers have received as "terrible twos." Bringing to life the joys and dilemmas of caring for them, this video offers numerous example typical toddler behavior and respectful care giving interactions that: foster trust and autonomy create a sense of mobility and sensory exploration model language and selective interventions soothe separation anxiety	Kidspace	1991	ISBN 0-934140-77-4
3	All Right!	Helping Young Children Fulfill their potential, 35 min.- this video depicts a child care center located in California and the unique ways they work with children.	California State Univeristy Northridge	1995
4	Career Encounters	Early childhood Education -28.30 -Careers in Early Childhood Education - this video explores some of the various career opportunities available to ECE majors including corporate child care, hospital based child care, head start etc.	Davis Gray, Inc.	1995
5	Family Transitions: Young Children Speak Their Minds About Divorce	Young Children Speak Their Minds About Divorce-16 minutes. - No pictures, just children's voices, and words. - Very powerful	The Infant-Parent Institute, 328 North Neil Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, 217-352-4060	1999
5	How Difficult Can This Be? -Understanding Learning Disabilities	Understanding Learning Disabilities- 70 minutes - The F.A.T. City Workshop presentation (F=frustration, A=Anxiety, T=Tension) this video needs to be viewed by all teachers at every level of education.	PBS video, 1-800-424-7963	1989
6	TLC-Teaching and Leading Children	Training for supportive guidance of children under six - this is six series of videos dealing with listening skills, I messages, reflective listening, cooperation, encouragement vs. praise and much more.	American Guidance Service,Inc., Circle Pins, Minnesota 55014-1796	1992	ISBN 0-88671-463-X
7	Celebrating Early Childhood Teachers	A wonderful video that puts ECE professionals in a more positive light and is very uplifting and supportive of our profession.	NAEYC	1986	Out of publication
8	Back to Sleep	3:46 minutes - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - A video on helping to reduce their risk	NCRR national Institues of Health;Bethesda Maryland 20892, 1-800-505-CRIB
9	Starting Small ;Teaching Children Tolerance	58 minutes, "We must creat the feeling that everyone is equally a worthwhile individula. And we do this by constantly pointing out what is unique about every child, and what we all have in common." Vivian Gussin Paley	Teaching Tolerance.org, 400 Washington AVenue, Montogmery, AL 36104	1997
10	A Place at the Table	40 minutes - History and identity through the eyes of today's youth, a film by Hudson and Hudson	Teaching Tolerance.org, 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, Al 36104	2000
11	The Tricycle Soultion	30 minutes - Teachable Moments for Parents and Preschoolers featuring Effie Kuriloff	Rocky Mountain Participation Nursery School,www.childdevelopmentmedia.com	2002	ISBN 0-9743374-0-4

Websites

ID	Title	Description	<< Click heading to sort
1	Yahoo Child Care Directors Group	This is a forum for center directors and administrators to ask questions, offer suggestions, discuss current topics and find support. We are personally inviting you to join this group and hope you find this a useful experience.	Visit Website
2	ChildCareExchange.com	Promotes the exchange of ideas among leaders in early childhood programs worldwide	Visit Website
3	Ohio Department of Job and Family Services	The site features information about programs, services, facts, statistics and current news concerning ODJFS	Visit Website
4	Dayton Association for Young Children	The mission of the Dayton Association for Young Children is to serve and act on behalf of the needs, rights, and well being of all young children and their families.	Visit Website
5	Instructional Support Services, Inc. - Directory	Articles for Administrators by Jane Bluestein, Ph. D.	Visit Website
6	Pads on the Back	These little notes were designed to make it easy to be positive, and to serve as reminders that it only takes a few seconds to let the special people in our lives know that we value them	Visit Website
7	Alliance for Childhood	The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children's healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.	Visit Website
8	Better Baby Care	The Better Baby Care Campaign is a nationwide effort to improve the quality of care for children under age three.	Visit Website
9	Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting	The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP) provides publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and parenting communities.	Visit Website
10	The National Child Care Information Center	The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information.	Visit Website
11	Center for the Child Care Workforce	CCW/AFTEF's mission is to improve the quality of early care and education for all children by promoting policy, research and organizing that ensure the early care, and education workforce is well educated, receives better compensation and a voice in their workplace.	Visit Website
12	Early Childhood Education On Line	The Early Childhood Education On Line LISTSERV community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years.	Visit Website
13	The National Association for the Education of Young Children	The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.	Visit Website
14	Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and their children with AD/HD.	Visit Website
15	Food Allergy Network	To raise public awareness, to provide advocacy and education, and to advance research on behalf of all those affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis.	Visit Website
16	The Child Welfare League of America	CWLA Publications, internationally known for setting standards of excellence for child welfare practice.	Visit Website
17	Zero To Three	ZERO TO Three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf.	Visit Website
18	Healthy Child Healthy World	Healthy Child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures.	Visit Website
19	Scheig Associates, Inc	Scheig Associates, Inc. is the pioneer developer of the unique, job specific, behaviorally based, Scheig Hiring and Performance System	Visit Website
20	The National Association of Child Care Professionals	The National Association of Child Care Professionals is the nation's leader among associations serving child care owners, directors, and administrators.	Visit Website
21	Child Care Lounge	This site is designed for those who care for and about children. Daycare directors and administrators, preschool teachers, child care givers, education coordinators, advocates, and students will find valuable information and resources.	Visit Website