Courses and Webinars
Be a life-long learner! Explore these professional development resources created for all caring adults who help children thrive.
Take a Course
1-3 hour online courses on a variety of our topics. Includes certificate upon completion.
Watch a Webinar
30 min to 1 hour presentations from our experts. Includes certificate upon completion.
View an Interactive Guide
Guided tours through our topics with a curated list of meaningful resources to share with children and families in your care.
Develop strategies for working with families. Put in some professional development hours by watching a webinar or taking a course designed for all types of providers.
The Heart of Communities: Supporting and Celebrating Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers
Components of Community: Creating Social Connections to Address Mental Health
Media and Mindfulness: Navigating Digital Landscapes with Children and Their Families
Little Neighbors: Fostering Community Connection, Engagement, and Exploration
From Attention to Connection: Responding to Challenging Behavior in Caring Ways
In this webinar, you’ll learn strategies to help you support young children facing emotional challenges.
Building a Connected Community
Take a course on ways to help children and families get ready for school and life—together!
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Rhythms of Resilience
An interactive course that helps providers and caring community members introduce resilience-building practices to young children and families affected by crisis.
Building a Connected Community
Take a course on ways to help children and families get ready for school and life—together!
Welcoming Others
Explore ways you can support newcomer families in your community.
Many Right Ways: Exploring Quality in Family Child Care
Explore the many ways you can offer high-quality child care to young children.
Circles of Care
An interactive course that equips providers to better identify and support family, friend, and neighbor caregivers (FFNC’s).
Growing Together
Discover ways to partner with families for school readiness across every aspect of child development.
Building a Reader
An interactive course that explores key literacy goals, strategies, and activities to support learning around language and literacy in children ages 2-5.
Make Believe With Math
You can create math moments in young children’s lives, especially during pretend play.
Caring Communities
In our course Caring Communities, you can explore the ways to embed storybooks, printables, videos, and digital games in your work with everyone in your neighborhood.
Develop strategies for working with families. Certificates of completion available.
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The Heart of Communities: Supporting and Celebrating Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers
Components of Community: Creating Social Connections to Address Mental Health
Little Neighbors: Fostering Community Connection, Engagement, and Exploration
From Attention to Connection: Responding to Challenging Behavior in Caring Ways
In this webinar, you’ll learn strategies to help you support young children facing emotional challenges.
Forging Furry Friendships: How Human-Animal Interventions Can Support Autistic Children’s Well-Being
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the science of human-animal bonds and specifically how animal interventions can support autistic children’s well-being.
Stories, Smiles, and Shared Reading with Sesame
Follow along for a guided introduction to resources on shared reading.
Supporting Grieving Native American Children and Families
Learn ways to support Native American children and families who are grieving with compassion and cultural humility.
Supporting Resettling Children and Families in the U.S.
Understanding Bullying
Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content, Rosemarie Truglio, PhD, examines bullying as it affects young children, and shares ways to handle—and prevent—it.
Take a guided tour of some of our topics with a curated list of meaningful resources to share with children and families in your care.
For Me, For You, For Later
An interactive guide for educators to teach financial education concepts and skills to young children.
Sesame Strong
Resources designed to empower caregivers and support family engagement.
Supporting Caregiving Families
A guide to help providers support military and veteran caregiving families.
Room to Grow: Resources for Racial Justice
Your actions, big and small, are powerful in the life of EVERY child in your community.
Your comments and questions are welcome! Please write to us at Communities@sesame.org