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Book News!
I'm happy to announce the birth of a new book! Every Drop Counts: Exploring Water Science with Young Children in a Changing Climate will be published this fall with Gryphon House. The book provides early childhood educators with inspiration, ideas, resources, and...

What Is an Emergent Curriculum?
The teachers at Families Together Cooperative Nursery School have many skills and talents but one particular area of strength is their ability to develop emergent curriculum activities in response to children’s interests. For example, one day this spring the Junipers...

Climate Change Resources
My NAEYC workshop on "Young Children and Climate Change" focuses on the importance of exploratory play in building children’s creativity, resilience, and hope. Play empowers children as change agents because it prepares them for imagining and constructing solutions to...