Now that you’ve identified the market need for high-quality child care and you’ve taken the first steps to building your practice, what’s next? How do you ensure quality care? How do you create a culture of growth and stem turnover?

The Basics of Leading a Child-Care Business, the second book in The Business of Child Care series, explains how to develop and lead a high-quality program where children can play and learn in the care of a well-educated, committed, and trained workforce. Explore key questions that shape understanding:

• What are the root causes of turnover?
• How do you set the culture of your organization?
• How can you build the best team for your organization?
• How do you construct professional-development plans for sustained growth?

• Understand the economics of the child-care business
• Write a comprehensive business plan
• Prepare a thorough financial plan
• Develop efficient operations for smooth day-to-day functioning
• Master marketing to promote your business to potential customers
• Provide excellent quality control and customer service

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating. Simple STEAM helps parents realize they don’t need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM learning.

• Help children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activities
• Discover STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiences
• Prepare children for kindergarten
• Build crucial 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking

• Creative Child Magazine 2018 Book of the Year Award, Activity Books Category 
• 2019 Teachers' Choice Award for the Family