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Leading to Learn: Learning to Lead –
Organizational Leadership for the
Child Care and Youth Development Director
By Michael S. Ashcraft and Chelsea W. Ashcraft
Price $18.00
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© 2011
206 pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9829526-1-0
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Often times, people who work well with children become leaders and administrators of the program. The purpose of this book is to help those leaders be more effective. Good leaders are always learning. They learn to lead, and they lead to learn. Good leaders help others learn, thus creating more leaders.
This book is fun and conversational. Mike and Chelsea Ashcraft speak warmly to the leaders of children's programming. The book addresses issues like vision, change, diversity, and supervision. The pages are full of wise quotes, profound stories, and fun activities.
Enjoy Mike and Chelsea's wisdom, experience, knowledge and sense of humor as you learn to lead and lead to learn!
Best Practices:
Guidelines for School-Age Programs
The research-based best practices for programs that
serve children before and after school.
By Michael Ashcraft
Price: $16.00
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© 2005
140 pages, paperback
ISBN: 0-9719304-5-7
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This book looks at the best practices for school-age programs—tying together brain research, children's development, and the theories of school age child development. Building off solid research and theory, Mike gives us a guidebook for planning and implementing quality school age programs.
Mike reviews the research on school age care, and the research on society's attitudes toward school-age programs. Research, theory, and practice are weaved together in this exciting book.
Full of case studies and practical ideas, this book will help you design, renovate, or improve your after-school program. If you work with children, this book will help you with your most important task: facilitating the positive development of the children in your care.
Best Practices Workbook:
Guidelines for School-Age Programs
A companion workbook, designed to help leaders assess their programs.
by Michael Ashcraft
Price: $16.00
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© 2005
72 pages, paperback
ISBN: 0-9719304-6-5
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Assess your own school-age program!
The Best Practices Workbook is a companion to the book Best Practices: Guidelines for School-Age Programs. It contains the complete set of best practices checklists and practical guidelines for school-age programs.
The Workbook includes the best practices checklists for:
• Relationships
• Diversity
• Environment
• Equipment and Materials
• Inclusion of Children with Special Needs
• Staff Qualifications
• Professional Development
• Behavior Management Plan
• And more!
Mike provides school-age practitioners with a detailed description of specific practices in a concise, easy-to-read format to help facilitate the positive development of children. These guidelines are based on cutting-edge research and established standards from a variety of sources.
This workbook is a self-assessment guide—a way for you to identify strengths, recognize weaknesses, and develop specific strengths for improving program quality. It is the perfect edition to your resource library.
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Getting Along: 
Teaching Social Skills to Children
Understanding the seven social skills that kids need,
and how to teach those skills to children in out-of-school time.
by Jim Ollhoff and Laurie Ollhoff
Price: $16.00
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© 2004
192 pages, paperback
ISBN: 0-9719304-3-0
This book examines how to teach social skills to children in out-of-school time settings. The book examines seven critical social skills that children need, and the three ways to teach those skills. With lots of examples and step-by-step procedures, this book is designed to be practical and hands-on. The school-age care practitioner is in a premier place to teach the social skills that children need, and this book helps the adult in that task.
Super Tools Card Game:
This game features all 30 of the powerful tools from our popular behavior management workshop for 
use in 40 supplied behavior scenarios. Players read the scenarios and play a variety of games that help them apply the tools to the scenario. There are at least five ways to play: Best Tool Wins, Speed Tools, Tool Duel, Simply the Best, Open Share, or a new invention of your own.
Price: $6.95 per deck.
Plus $2.95 shipping and handling per order.
© 2011
70 colorful playing cards held together with a nice rubber band.
Games that Build Community F.A.S.T. : 
The little BIG book of the popular games featured in our teambuilding workshops… a portable, pocket or backpack-friendly resource for afterschool educators, school-age child caregivers, recreation assistants, group leaders, and camp counselors.
by Chelsea and Mike Ashcraft
Price: $6.95
Plus $2.95 shipping and handling.
© 2011
XXXX pages, paperback
Printed on cardstock and spiral bound.