The goal of this book is to hand you easy-to-implement ideas that can help you get fully enrolled in your early childhood program, with a waiting list. And not just any old ideas - these are the 77 BEST ideas and strategies we use consistently.Kris Murray has helped hundreds of owners grow their enrollment by 15 to 300 percent in just a few months, so it's possible for you too. In fact, she has included some of their case studies and results from using the ideas in this book, to provide you with proof and inspiration.Kris Murray's first book, "The Ultimate Child Care Marketing Guide", has sold thousands of copies and is 5-star rated on Amazon. Kris wrote this second book, as an easy-to-use idea generator for way to market your child care, daycare, or preschool. Anytime you need a boost in creativity for building enrollment, you can consult this bookas your idea resource. Pick one or two ideas that appeal to you, and get started.

Guides directors through the steps to build respectful, welcoming relationships with families and staff.

In The Happiness Guide for Early Childhood Educators: Secrets to Living Your Best Life In and Out of the Classroom, the world's leading expert in child care business development and owner of the Child Care Success Company, Kris Murray, teams up with certified child care coach, Brian Duprey, to bring you this powerhouse gem.Included are chapters on making a difference, health & wellness, goals & dreams, mindset, leadership, work ethic, and finances that will help all team members in a child care program to live their best lives, in and out of the classroom.You will follow co-teachers, Teresa and Jillian, as they read this book and embark on a journey of self-improvement in all areas of their lives. You will also meet many child care leaders in the back of the book that are busy making a difference each and every day by incorporating many of the gems in this book into their daily life.This is the fourth book from author Kris Murray, the #1 author of child care business books world wide. This is Brian Duprey's second book. His other work, Child Care Millionaire, was an Amazon New Release Best Seller.The Child Care Success Company provides industry-leading early childhood business training and coaching services around the world. Please visit our website at www.childcaresuccess.com.

Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.

Feel confident and competent when it comes to choosing and implementing the most appropriate technology tools for your early childhood classroom! Whether you are a technology enthusiast looking for new ideas and guidance about developmentally appropriate practices, or you are new to the idea of using technology with young children, this book is for you. Digital Decisions provides everything you need to make your own technology plan based on your experiences and beliefs, the needs of the children, the context of your curriculum and the resources available to you. This no-nonsense, jargon-free guide will help you evaluate the tools and opportunities technology has to offer and integrate them into your early childhood classroom so you can offer real-life, hands-on, interactive activities to children. A reference every childhood program will want to have, Digital Decisions is brimming with charts, resources, and an array of activities that maximize technology as an interactive learning tool. Each chapter provides supporting guidance to make technology most effective for those working with children who are dual language learners or may have special needs.

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

The national push for early learning is no longer about preschool alone, but rather about strategic planning to increase achievement by working with communities to establish a strong Key Stages 1 and 2 foundation. This book provides the essential steps for carrying out this important work, including how to reach out to community early childhood education providers to establish quality instruction and build bridges to Key Stages 1 and 2. Drawing on their success in building a PreK-3 system in the Bremerton, WA school district and their work with schools across the USA, the authors provide education professionals with a field-tested, step-by-step road map that can be adapted for your own community and school district. Essential topics include: - Identifying the needs of families and children - Aligning resources, curriculum, instruction, and assessment - Establishing key players - Training staff - Developing a plan for implementation - Instituting professional learning communities - Anticipating potential challenges - Celebrating successes This book shows head teachers and early childhood professionals, as well as county officials, Education Officers, Head Start programmes, and Title I directors, how to provide all children with access to high-quality educational experiences in and before Reception and link early childhood standards and goals to the Key Stages 1 and 2 systems.

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!

The vital skills children need to achieve their full potential! Being organized. Staying focused. Controlling impulses and emotions. These are some of the basic executive functioning (EF) skills children need to function and succeed as they grow. But what can you do if your child is struggling with one or all of these skills? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn what EF difficulties look like and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Psychologist Rebecca Branstetter teaches you how to help improve the executive functions, including: Task initiation Response inhibition Focus Time management Working memory Flexibility Self-regulation Completing tasks Organization With checklists to help enforce skills and improve organization, The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive!