A practical handbook for healthcare professionals that covers all aspects of pre-term nutrition, using evidence-based information to promote safe and effective practice. Readers will discover problem-solving strategies, interventions, and information on meeting the nutritional requirements of pre-term infants.

Practicing what it preaches, this book offers a playful reading experience for teachers and parents alike. With jokes, riddles, and stories sprinkled throughout, this book shows how important play is for children of all ethnic and socioeconomic groups, from birth to age eight.

An experience that has proven to be an effective intervention for first year students is the first year seminar. Research supports that students' participation in first year seminars is effective in retention, persistence toward graduation, higher grade point averages, and social integration. Results from the 2001-2002 First Year Initiative Survey provides support that there is a positive relationship between the instructional techniques used in the first year seminar and acquisition of academic and critical thinking skills for students enrolled in the three-contact hour first year seminar. A...

2015 INDIEFAB Award Finalist for Education

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice--the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the importance of teaching is told while entertaining and engaging the reader throughout.

Thirteen-year-old Lily fights to keep the life she loves ... best friend, Khiara, designer jeans, and most of all, her horse, Valiant. Losing it all, she arrives in India lonely and depressed. With a talent for finding trouble, she's abandoned on the night train, almost drowned, and the cause of a major traffic jam in the city. A beggar girl sings and skips by every day. Why is she so happy? Lily hast to know. Despite the danger, she sneaks out and follows the girl deep into the city. When Asha, the beggar girl, finds Lily, a friendship begins. Lily wakes in the night to sounds of a dangerous...

Elizabeth's oldest daughter, Jocelyn, was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating neurological disorder known as Rett syndrome. Since that instant, Elizabeth has been on the front lines of a battle to find a cure. Without the deep pockets of big pharmaceutical companies, she has orchestrated a grassroots fundraising army that is poised to beat the odds and cure her daughter and thousands of others.

Jocelyn's Journey exposes the devastating struggles a special-needs family experiences: physical struggles of an ill child, marital struggles, struggles to fit in with society, and struggles...

Explores the components of emergent curriculum and how its practices can improve the educational culture of early childhood programs. This updated edition includes new information on exploration of inquiry-based practice, re-examination of circle time and scripts for routines, and expansion of invitations, including invitations for children learning a second language, new photos and documentation.

Follow Pacapun the Alpaca and his best friend Punnzy the Frog on a Pun-filled adventure to a farmstay run by friendly pigs Pacapun's Farmstay Adventure teaches children how to have fun with words and reading, using puns to encourage word-play and gently leading children to a greater understanding of the English language.