The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers
Increasingly progressive educators are focusing on play-based learning and social-emotional development, but The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers is unique in providing a comprehensive and thorough discussion of this focus and illustrating all precepts with teachable examples.
I highly recommend The Happiest Preschool by Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper and Kelly Perez to all educators, including both teachers and administrators, in preschools and kindergarten programs everywhere. In my experience as a preschool classroom teacher, teacher support person, children’s museum administrator, and university-based teacher educator
supervising teacher candidates in schools, the educators whom I have encountered want to help children in their care enjoy
and focus on their learning, get along with their classmates, and look forward with eagerness to the next grade and beyond.
— Dr. Elizabeth Meadows, Associate Professor of Elementary Education, Roosevelt University, Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois
The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers is a strong advocate for high quality preschool, which is what every child
needs and deserves as a springboard for academic success and the development of social-emotional skills and self-confidence. Teachers will learn and benefit from comprehensive topics and specific examples that illustrate how to create an
exciting, cooperative, caring, inspiring classroom culture.
— Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education and CEO of Chicago Public Schools
The Happiest Preschool is so consistently positive that I was smiling as I read every page ... The Manual paints the picture
of a child-responsive early childhood program worth emulating.
— Dan Gartrell, author of The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms
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