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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Mindful Caregivers
Practicing mindfulness is a great way to slow down and reset.
Mindful Monsters: Whole-Body Listening with Elmo
In this podcast, Elmo practices whole-body listening.
Mindful Monsters: Self-Love Mantras with Grover
In this podcast, Grover shares some mindful mantras.
Mindful Monsters: Look and Notice with Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster helps children practice mindfulness by looking and listening carefully to their surroundings.
Mindful Monsters: Bubble Breathing with Abby Cadabby
In this podcast, Abby Cadabby guides children through a bubble breathing exercise.
Mindful Monsters: Body Scan with Big Bird
In this podcast, Big Bird guides children through a mindful body scan.
Mindful Monsters: A Podcast Guide to Peace
A guide with tips for using the Mindful Monsters Podcast Series.
