#274 Summer 2024

DEAR READER

CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Conflict Resolution within Healthy Teams
by Jane Humphries and Kari Rains

MULTI-LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Fostering Positive Attitudes Toward Multilingualism: A Bioecological Approach
by Helen Fann and Kelly Twibell Sanchez

FOCUS ON: NAVIGATING GRIEF AND LOSS

• Young Children’s Understanding of Death and a School Duck
  by Martina B. Albright and Jeremy Aron
  
  
• Death Conversations and Grief Practices with Children
  by Vanessa Dayberry
  
  
• Empathy and Love in Action: What We Make of Grief in Early Childhood Education
  by David Wright
  
  
• Putting Childhood First: An Interview with Author Anastasia Higginbotham About Approaching Difficult Topics Through Children’s Books
  by Michele Hemenway Pullen and Anastasia Higginbotham
  
  
• Reimagining Heartbreak: A Foreword for a New Book that Explores Whole-Hearted Teaching
  by Ann Pelo and Margie Carter

MIND BENDERS
by Scott Bilstad

I SEE ME
Elevating Diversity and Disability in Children’s Literature
by LaShorage Shaffer

STEM
Exploring STEM with Infants and Toddlers: A Long-Term Study of Bubbles
by Amie A. Perry and Alissa A. Lange

SUPPORTING GENDER CURIOSITY
Pride in Gender Exploration from a Queer Educator
by Kate Selden

BRIDGING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Relationships Matter: How to Prioritize and Cultivate Relational Health Within the Early Childhood Education Community
by Tracy Dearth-Wesley, Allison N. Herman, and Robert C. Whitaker

REIMAGINING OUR WORK
A Brief Story of the ROW Book Collection
by Margie Carter and Ann Pelo

CHOOSING SOFTWARE
Four Questions to Ask Before Choosing Child Care Management Software
by Leah Woodbury

LEADERSHIP
Updates to The Whole Leadership Framework: Responding to Voices in the Field
by Marie L. Masterson, Teri N. Talan, and Jill M. Bella

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