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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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Already taken this course? To re-download your certificate launch the course above and tap “Get Certificate.”
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Little Neighbors: Fostering Community Connection, Engagement, and Exploration
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Learning Party Lyrics
Every day can be a celebration of learning. Keep the music going!
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Helping at Home, Helping the Neighborhood
Little acts can make a big difference.
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Little Neighbors Can Do Big Things
A new friend joins the Little Neighbors Club!
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Helping and Caring
Use this checklist with children to set small goals together and help your community!
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Julia’s Community Mural
There are so many ways to be kind, caring, and helpful in our communities!
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Playground Helpers
Help the Twiddlebugs find their lost materials to build their playground!