The Micro-Course Textbook for Area 2 Supporting Cognitive Development deepens your understanding of how infants and toddlers learn and shows you how to support their development through everyday interactions, guided reflection and real-world application.

An essential resource for managers and program leaders, this practical guide tackles one of the most pressing challenges in early childhood settings: how to balance reflective and administrative supervision effectively. With a clear focus on blended supervision models, it delivers actionable strategies and real-world insights that help leaders strengthen staff performance, build reflective capacity, and create healthier, more responsive programs. For anyone responsible for guiding teams and improving outcomes for children and families, this book is a must-read.

This valuable book outlines the key steps in creating a system of reflective supervision within an early childhood program to improve services, support staff, and better meet the needs of children and families. With chapters written by leading experts, this book provides answers to the critical questions that every program needs to know to launch reflective supervision and lists activities that can be used to build the reflective capacity within a staff.

This resource takes a closer look at the powerful connection between sensory processing, self-regulation, and social-emotional development in the early years. Designed for a multidisciplinary audience, it equips professionals and caregivers with evidence-based strategies to support infants and young children experiencing sensory processing challenges. By blending clinical insight with practical, relationship-based approaches, it offers meaningful guidance that can be applied across a wide range of early childhood settings.

The ZERO TO THREE Critical Competencies for Infant-Toddler Educators™ Online Micro-Course, Area 3: Supporting Language and Literacy Development helps faculty and students strengthen practices that support infants’ and toddlers’ communication, language, and early literacy development. The course emphasizes reflective learning and everyday interactions that promote meaningful language experiences.

Use this kit to apply early childhood science in your work and support healthy development and learning for infants and toddlers, with bilingual posters and a practical tool for managing challenging behaviors.

This children’s book is designed to support families with young children during the return of a parent from military deployment. While reunions can be joyful and exciting, they can also bring stress and emotional adjustment for both adults and young children. The story explores the range of emotions children may experience during this transition and helps parents better understand their child’s reactions and behavior.

As a caregiver, you need practical, easy-to-use resources that help you feel confident and empowered. Our Born Ready to Learn 0–12 Months Wheels highlight the skills babies are developing across four key domains: thinking, social-emotional development, communication, and early literacy. These early skills lay the foundation for school readiness.

An essential resource for managers and program leaders, this practical guide tackles one of the most pressing challenges in early childhood settings: how to balance reflective and administrative supervision effectively. With a clear focus on blended supervision models, it delivers actionable strategies and real-world insights that help leaders strengthen staff performance, build reflective capacity, and create healthier, more responsive programs. For anyone responsible for guiding teams and improving outcomes for children and families, this book is a must-read.

This compassionate and practical guide supports clinicians, educators, and caregivers as they help infants, toddlers, and preschoolers navigate the death of a parent or primary caregiver. It explores how young children experience and express grief, including responses to sudden or violent loss, and offers thoughtful, real-world case vignettes that bring therapeutic approaches to life. Grounded in clinical insight, the book provides meaningful guidance for supporting young children through one of life’s most difficult transitions.

When a baby cries, no single method works every time and sometimes it can feel like nothing helps. This practical resource offers you 26 soothing ideas to try when little ones are fussy, organized in a memorable A–Z format that makes support easy to find in the moment. Encouraging and realistic, it reassures caregivers while offering simple strategies they can use right away.