
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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Just for Teachers: The Magic of Circle Time
Learning is all about relationships!

My Classroom Circle
Children can create their own unique circle canvas to share their favorite things with their classroom community... and see what they may have in common.

Learning Party
When children feel welcome and included, school can feel like a learning party that they’re invited to each and every day!

C is for...
Classroom communities care, collaborate, show compassion… and celebrate!

Sing-Along: Learning Party
Every day can be a celebration of learning. Keep the music going!

Back to School
A video that explores ways parents can build bridges of communication between the home and the classroom.

Cookie Monster at Circle Time
A storybook about circle time, classroom community, caring friends, and... COOKIES!