Whether you’re the director of a preschool, administrator of a Head Start program, or a family child care provider, you need up-to-date resources to help you effectively manage your program. New Horizons specializes in books and assessment tools to help you achieve your vision of excellence.
Meaningful professional development experiences are at the core of building a stable and capable early childhood workforce. New Horizons publishes trainer’s guides that include step-by-step instructions for planning dynamic and informative training for early childhood administrators.
If you are a researcher or policymaker investigating workforce issues, our featured authors have written a number of articles and reports documenting the importance of effective leadership in early childhood settings. Download these free resources to support your decision making.
Valid and reliable assessment tools are essential for measuring, monitoring, and improving organizational practices. If you are an assessor, coach, or TA specialist, our assessment tools can help you in your role of supporting continuous quality improvement.
Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs recognizes the essential role early childhood administrators play in initiating and sustaining culturally relevant care and education. Program leaders steeped in the principles of anti-bias education are able to see diversity as an organizational asset and work intentionally and strategically to make the abstract notion of social justice come alive […]
In Leading with Heart and Soul, Toni Christie shares her wit, wisdom, and lessons learned from leading teams in early childhood education. Leaders and aspiring leaders will enjoy Toni’s frank and humorous ability to inform and inspire the reader with her values-based approach to leadership. Each of the twelve chapters—be courageous, dream big, serve others, […]
Blueprint for Action provides a framework for understanding the dynamics of organizational change in early care and education settings. It helps administrators move beyond a “quick fix” notion of center improvement by serving as a guide for organizational analysis and action. The book details a comprehensive method for assessing program strengths and areas in need of improvement. The heart […]
Measuring Work Attitudes in the Early Childhood Setting provides a framework for understanding and evaluating early childhood environments from the perspective of the adults who work in those environments. It is intended for early childhood administrators who are looking for practical ways to improve the quality of work life for their staff and for researchers […]
From the best seller, Blueprint for Action, the 26 assessment tools and 12 worksheets on this CD-ROM can be reproduced for professional development or assessment purposes at your school or center. Each assessment tool comes with background information on the development of the assessment, directions for administering and scoring the assessment, and suggestions on how to use the results. […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on employee recruitment and hiring in early childhood organizations. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in The Right Fit: Recruiting, Selecting, and Orienting Staff. It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that will help […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on the essentials of facilitating an effective meeting. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Making the Most of Meetings: A Practical Guide. It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that will help participants […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on the topic of leadership in early care and education. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Leadership in Action: How Effective Directors Get Things Done. It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on how early childhood administrators can transform their programs into professional learning communities. The workshop is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Inspiring Peak Performance: Competence, Commitment, and Collaboration. It presents five strategies—developmental supervision, teacher induction, individual learning plans, peer […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on the importance of reflection and self-awareness in early care and education. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in From the Inside Out: The Power of Reflection and Self-Awareness. It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on how to create engaging, inspiring, and productive early childhood work environments. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in A Great Place to Work: Creating a Healthy Organizational Climate. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a […]
Imagine what your program would look like if it were a true professional learning community—a place where teachers saw each new day as an opportunity to expand their competence and confidence and support one another in moving toward a shared vision of program excellence. Envision what your supervisory practices, professional development activities, and performance appraisal system would look like […]
Early childhood program administrators often have a global impression that things are going well or not so well at their center, but they lack specific feedback on just what the different areas of the organization contribute to those impressions. This updated and expanded edition of an NAEYC bestseller helps directors define more precisely how ten dimensions of a center shape […]
As the director of an early childhood program, you are in a unique position to influence the decision-making policies and practices at your center. In this book you’ll learn that participative management is both a philosophy and a set of behaviors that define your interactions with people. You’ll explore techniques for managing the daily business of your center by involving […]
Meetings are the glue that holds early childhood organizations together. Whether it’s a weekly staff meeting, a monthly parent meeting, or an annual board meeting, directors rely on meetings as the primary vehicle for communicating information, identifying and solving problems, and making new decisions and modifying old ones. There is no avoiding it, skill in facilitating meetings is essential for […]
Well-trained and experienced staff are the key to early childhood program quality and healthy child development. Yet, every director knows that finding those teachers is a huge challenge. Skills in recruitment, interviewing, screening, selecting, and orienting new teachers are ones that every director needs. This book breaks down the recruitment, selection, and orientation processes into manageable components and suggests […]
Leadership begins in the head and heart. It is a way of thinking about yourself and the vital role you play in your early childhood program. This book dispels the myth that there is one best leadership style that all directors should emulate. It will help you understand the subtle but important distinction between leadership as a role […]
This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on the essentials of shared decision making and participative management. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Circle of Influence: Implementing Shared Decision Making and Participative Management. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative […]
The quest for excellence begins with an inner quest to discover who we are—our passions, values, talents, personal resources, and even those foibles and annoying habits we might prefer not to acknowledge. Having a better understanding of ourselves is the first step toward achieving a better relationship with others. From the Inside Out is your passport for self-discovery. Through thought-provoking […]
Good training has never been more important and good trainers have never been in more demand. As workshop leader, your job is to ignite a passion for learning and engage your participants as active partners in the learning process. This book will help you achieve that goal. It provides the tools you need to design and deliver high-content, high-involvement, and […]
Research consistently finds that high-quality administrative practices are crucial for ensuring beneficial results for children and families. Without systems in place at the organizational level, supportive teacher-child interactions and stimulating learning environments at the classroom level cannot be achieved or sustained. This valuable tool includes 25 items clustered in 10 subscales, which measure both leadership and management functions of center-based early care and education […]
Family child care providers who utilize effective business and professional practices are more likely to provide a high-quality learning environment and interact more sensitively with children. The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) is the first valid and reliable instrument for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. Providers that use the […]
Family child care providers who utilize effective business and professional practices are more likely to provide a high-quality learning environment and interact more sensitively with children. The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) is the first valid and reliable instrument for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. Providers that use the […]
La Escala de la Administración de Negocios para el Cuidado de Niños en el Hogar (BAS) es la primera herramienta válida y confiable para medir y mejorar la calidad total de negocios y prácticas profesionales en los programas de cuidado de niños en el hogar. Tiene múltiples usos, incluyendo auto-mejoramiento del programa, asistencia técnica y monitoreo, entrenamiento, investigación, evaluación y conciencia pública. Con […]
