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6 Summertime Teaching Tips That Work Year-Round!
This month, we want to share some ideas for activities you can use in your classroom and home this summer – or any time of the year! We hope you enjoy these ideas for outdoor play, early literacy, art, science, ...
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7 Strategies That Help Children Develop Self-Regulation
In last month’s blog post, I introduced the first 3 “C’s” in my 4 C’s Framework of Emotional Support. These 3 C’s – connection, calming and compassion – are supports children especially need when they are distressed. Now I’d like ...
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Supporting Children When They Are Distressed: 3 “C’S” they Really Need From Us
When young children are upset, they usually need help from adults to calm down. And the more upset they are, the more help they need! When children are distressed, acting out, or having a tantrum or a meltdown, they don’t ...
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7 Tips for Supporting Children with Autism
As Autism Acceptance Month draws to a close, we want to offer some practical tips that may be helpful for children on the autism spectrum and those who support and care for them. Each child is unique. This is no ...
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5 Tips for teaching SEL
Written with Kristen K. Carroll A Day to celebrate social emotional learning is coming up! Won’t you join the movement? Promote SEL today and every day! What is Social Emotional Learning? According to Committee for Children, “Social-emotional learning (SEL) is ...
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An A-B-C of Ideas for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
It’s Black History month, a time to honor African-Americans whose contributions to our country have often been overlooked in the past. We celebrate the Black leaders who, despite many adversities, have helped our nation in so many ways. It’s ...
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Four Mindfulness Tips for a Calmer Classroom in 2022
Happy 2022! Did you make New Year’s resolutions this month? After making the same ones year after year – and not managing to keep them – I decided to try something different. Here are my resolutions for this year: To ...
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7 Mindfulness Quotes for Holiday Self-Care
It’s the week before Christmas and all through the house Are things I’ve not done; I feel like a louse! I still need to decorate, shop, clean house, and cook, I’ll be so embarrassed if friends stop by for a look! ...
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7 Mindfulness Activities for Children
Mindfulness activities help build children’s capacity for self-regulation. If you teach these activities when children are calm and provide lots of opportunities for practice, children may be able to do some of them when they are upset. They’ll need lots ...
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7 Benefits of mindfulness for children and adults – and Classrooms, too!
Mindfulness means being aware of the present moment without judging it. Research shows that focusing on the “here and now” has many benefits for all of us, no matter our ages or the settings in which we interact with children. I’ve ...
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