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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Safe & Together
When families have to leave home in order to stay safe, it helps to remember that home is where the love is.
Bubble Time
A quiet activity such as blowing bubbles can help both children and adults breathe deeply, slow down… and calm down.
Crayon Power
Coloring together can soothe both children and grown-ups.
See You Later Alligator
A special, loving good-bye routine can make separations easier.
Friendship Bracelets
When it’s hard to be apart from those we love, the littlest things can become big reminders that someone loves us and is thinking of us.
Cloud Watching
Spending time outside can feel like a “reset” on the day.
Pillow Hugs
Hugging a pillow covered with an item of a loved one’s clothing can help comfort children when they’re missing them.
