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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A Time to Talk
Grown-ups work together to help Elmo manage big feelings with care.
Listen to Understand
Elmo and Abby learn that pausing to listen helps them work as a team.
Watch and Play: Cookie Monster's Cookie Cart
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Cookie Monster's Magical Cart
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Watch and Play: Elmo's Space Adventure
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
Adult Teamwork in Children's Tough Moments
When it comes to supporting little ones with big feelings, providers and caregivers work better together!
Watch and Play: Grover's Play
Watch this episode and explore ways to extend the learning at home.
