Chapter One:

Personal Leadership

Strategies for Cultivating Personal Leadership

This resource supports the development of personal leadership mindsets—such as vision, courage, commitment, integrity, emotional intelligence, cultural humility, community-minded and risk-taking—within early childhood professionals. It includes practical strategies and reflective tools for individuals and administrators to nurture authentic growth, resilience, and connection in both classroom and organizational settings.

Ivilez talks about the difference between professional development and personal development and how both is needed to be a strong leader, along with three shifts.

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Chapter Two: Clear Direction

Strategies for Cultivating Clear Direction

This resource offers practical strategies for cultivating, embedding, and sustaining clear direction within early childhood teams and organizations. It includes tools for aligning daily practices, team routines, and organizational systems with a shared vision to promote consistency, collaboration, and purpose-driven work.

Clear Direction Sustainability Planner

This resource guides reflection and planning through structured prompts, bright spots, barriers, and next steps to ensure clarity, communication, and alignment are consistently maintained and sustained across individuals, teams, and organizational systems.

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Chapter Three:

Shared Goals and Collaborative Decision Making

Strategies for Cultivating Shared Goals and Collaborative Decision Making

This resource outlines strategies for building shared goals and collaborative decision-making within early childhood teams. It supports both classroom and organization-wide practices that promote clarity, equity, and collective ownership of vision, goals, and day-to-day decisions.

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Chapter Four: Defined Roles and Responsibilities

Strategies for Cultivating Defined Roles and Responsibilities

This resource provides strategies for defining, clarifying, and sustaining team roles and responsibilities in early childhood settings. From daily classroom routines to organization-wide systems, it supports shared leadership, reduces confusion, and strengthens alignment with your program’s vision and goals.

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Chapter Five:

Cultural Humility

Strategies for Cultivating Cultural Humility

This resource offers strategies to cultivate cultural humility across early childhood teams and organizations. It supports daily reflection, inclusive practices, and equity-driven systems that center identity, shared learning, and respectful relationships with children, families, and colleagues.

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Chapter Six:

Emotional and Relational Intelligence

Strategies for Cultivating Emotional and Relational Intelligence

This resource offers strategies for building emotional and relational intelligence across early childhood teams. It includes practical routines, reflective tools, and system-wide practices that foster self-awareness, empathy, trust, and connection—essential foundations for strong collaboration and positive outcomes for children.

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Anna Alba

Anna shares her philosophy on social-emotional learning (SEL) for adults and its impact on leadership including self-awareness and self-regulation.

Chapter Seven:

Open and Honest Communication

Strategies for Cultivating Open and Honest Communication

This resource provides practical strategies for cultivating open and honest communication within early childhood teams. It supports daily connection, values-based dialogue, and organization-wide practices that promote psychological safety, empathy, and trust across all levels.

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Chapter Eight: Collaboration and Mutual Accountability

Strategies for Cultivating Collaboration and Mutual Accountability

This resource offers practical strategies to strengthen collaboration and mutual accountability within early childhood teams. It supports both daily classroom routines and organization-wide systems that foster shared responsibility, open communication, and collective growth across roles and settings.

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Chapter Nine:

Risk Taking and Change Management

Strategies for Cultivating Risk-Taking and Change Management

This resource offers practical strategies for cultivating a culture of risk-taking and adaptability within early childhood teams. From small-scale experiments to system-wide reflection routines, it supports leaders and educators in embracing change, fostering psychological safety, and learning collaboratively from both success and failure.

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Chapter Ten:

Reframing Conflict

Strategies for Reframing Conflict

This resource offers strategies for addressing conflict within and across early childhood teams by promoting psychological safety, shared norms, and reflective communication. It supports both small-team and organization-wide practices that transform tension into growth through empathy, clarity, and collaborative problem-solving.

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Fiona Stewart shares the connection between collaborative leadership, shared goals and systems building at the classroom and program level. She also talks about reframing conflict as “opportunities for change” while giving strategies for empowering staff using conflict resolution processes.

Chapter Eleven:

Workplace Drama

Strategies for Managing Workplace Drama

This resource provides proactive, relational strategies for recognizing, preventing, and addressing workplace drama in early childhood settings. From daily team practices to organization-wide systems, it supports a culture of psychological safety, clear communication, shared accountability, and conflict repair.

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The Flip Strategy

A deeper dive into Susan MacDonald’s strategies for moving from negative conversations and complaints to affirmative questions with a solution focus.

Chapter Twelve:

Workplace Bullying

Strategies for Managing Workplace Bullying

This resource offers actionable strategies for preventing and addressing bullying within early childhood teams by fostering psychological safety, clear communication, and shared accountability. It includes tools for both classroom teams and organization-wide systems to build respectful, inclusive, and emotionally safe workplace cultures.

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Chapter Thirteen:

Restorative Practices

Strategies for Restorative Practices in the Workplace

This resource outlines restorative practices that strengthen relationships, repair harm, and build emotional safety within early childhood teams. With strategies for both daily team interactions and organization-wide systems, it supports a culture of empathy, accountability, and continuous reflection.

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Molly Corbin talks about forgiveness in the workplace. She defines the term, talks about the benefits, and shares strategies and tips for helping staff resolve anger, resentment and frustrations.