#256 November/December 2020

DEAR READER
by Sara Gilliam

COVID CONNECTIONS
Community, Connections and COVID-19: How the House of Representatives Child Care Center Stayed Together While Working Apart
by Paige Beatty, Nicole Bogrand, Jessica Cherebin, Suzanne Hite and Jacky Howell

REASSURANCE AND EMPATHY
Responding Thoughtfully to Children’s Fears
by Erika Christakis

COMPASSION FATIGUE
Navigating Compassion Fatigue with Compassion
by Shoshanah Findling

THE JOY OF DISCOVERY
Learning to Trust the Child’s Process
by Ruth Anne Hammond

CHILD CARE MANAGEMENT
Five Indisputable Child Care Management Principles That Stand the Test of Time (and a Global Pandemic)
by JoAnn Kintzel

RETHINKING OUR TRAJECTORY
What Lies Ahead For Our Field
by Stacie G. Goffin and Valora Washington

BRIDGING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Seven Loose Parts Myths Busted: Moving Toward Enhanced Creativity
by Carla Gull, Suzanne Levenson Goldstein and Tricia Rosengarten

WONDER
Set Your Imagination Loose with Large Loose Parts!
Coordinated by Kirsten Haugen on behalf of NACC

MIND BENDERS

ART APPRECIATION
Sparking a Love of Art
by Tracy Galuski and MaryEllen Bardsley

FOCUS ON: DIRECTOR’S TOOLKIT

• Six Keys to Getting More Inquiries and Enrollments in the Era of COVID-19
  by Kris Murray and Sindye Alexander
• Getting a Head Start on Tax Savings
  by Mark E. Battersby
• Making Parent Ambassadors Your Enrollment
  Building Partners
  by Julie Wassom
• Onboard (and, Occasionally, Offboarding) Staff
  by Michele Turner

EARLY LEARNING FRAMEWORK
Neighbors to the North: Reimagining ECE
by Margie Carter, in conversation with Kim Atkinson, Mary Burgaretta and Laurie Kocher

THE LIFE OF EMMI PIKLER
Emmi Pikler: A Life, A Legacy
by Ruth Mason

EMBODYING CARE
Meeting Nel Noddings
by Lynnette Haley O’Stewart and Carol Garboden Murray

TEACHING WITH CONFIDENCE
Developing Teachers’ Confidence
by Christy Jones-Hudson

PREVENTING BURNOUT
Strategies For Preventing Child Care Center Director Stress and Burnout
by Syretha O. Storey

WORLD FORUM IN ACTION

DEAR ELI

REINTERPRETING CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS
Not Attention but Affirmation
by Daniel Gartrell

CELEBRATING TEACHERS
by Christie Angleton, Kathryn F. Whitmore and Pamela Jett

ADVERTISER INDEX / MARKETPLACE

BONNIE’S GLOBAL CAFE
by Bonnie Neugebauer