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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Creating Safety and a Sense of Home
Watch and Play: Grover's Super Suitycase
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Cookie Monster's Big Puzzle
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Abby’s Magical Afternoon
A storybook all about the power of mistakes!
Listen, Feel, and See with Elmo
When children are in the hospital, this mindfulness game can help them soothe themselves.
Using Your Words
A coloring page helping children explore words for big feelings.
Cookie Monster’s Beach Day
When children are in the hospital, their imagination can become a valuable tool in soothing themselves.
