Building a Connected Community
Take a course on ways to help children and families get ready for school and life--together!
This course is designed to support providers and families. It focuses on learning in a community and includes strategies and resources that affirm and extend children’s sense of self, school, and society across learning spaces and among the people they share them with.
Learning Goals
- Support providers in co-creating a more inclusive, welcoming, and fair classroom community for all children, parents, and families.
- Explore the brain science behind children’s developmental understanding of themselves, their relationships, and community.
- Celebrate and reinforce the ways providers are already building a caring community by empowering children and their families.
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Understanding Bullying
Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content, Rosemarie Truglio, PhD, examines bullying as it affects young children, and shares ways to handle—and prevent—it.
Peaceful Problem Solving
There are lots of creative ways to handle conflict in the classroom.
Meet the Providers: Joseph and Callie
A video introducing two preschool teachers with insights to share.
A Welcoming Space
A video presenting insights and strategies from preschool teachers.
Dream Big!
An 11-page adult-child activity book focusing on celebrating what makes us each unique, how we’re all connected, and how little ones can build a better world!
Activity Page: The Wonderful in You
A parent-child activity page encouraging bonding.