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Big Conversations with Little Children
To work with young children is to constantly expect the unexpected. Tough questions are part of early childhood educators’ regular interactions with children and families. Based on children’s actual questions, Big Conversations with Little...
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Big Conversations with Little Children: Addressing Questions, Worries, and Fears
To work with young children is to constantly expect the unexpected. Tough questions are part of early childhood educators’ regular interactions with children and families. Based on children’s actual questions, Big Conversations with Little...
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Bright, Complex Kids: Supporting Their Social and Emotional Development
A field guide for understanding the complex characteristics and social and emotional needs of gifted kids. Many bright and gifted kids do not feel understood or supported. For adults wanting to change that, Bright, Complex Kids provides...
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Bright, Complex Kids: Supporting Their Social and Emotional Development.
A field guide for understanding the complex characteristics and social and emotional needs of gifted kids.
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Bullying Hurts: Teaching Kindness Through Read Alouds and Guided Conversations
We believe focused read aloud experiences with carefully selected children’s literature followed by guided conversations is one way you can create a climate in your classroom, school, or district where bullying is not an accepted or rewarded...
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Calm, Alert, and Learning / Ready to Learn
Recent research tells us that one of the keys to student success is self-regulation – the ability to monitor and modify emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, to tolerate frustration or delay gratification. But can a...
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Calm, Alert, and Learning / Ready to Learn Parent Booklet (single copy)
The parent booklet is based on the work of Dr. Stuart Shanker and his book for teachers, Calm, Alert, and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation. Many parents naturally use self-regulation techniques with their...
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Classroom Management Matters: The Social--Emotional Learning Approach Children Deserve
By Gianna Cassetta, Brook Sawyer Foreword by Carmen Farina "We can do better, but expectation alone is not enough. We need answers and examples like the ones Gianna and Brook provide with great insight from research and practice and great...
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Confronting Bullying : Literacy as a Tool for Character Education
Bullying is a major problem in American schools, and there is no simple solution. Every day, 160,000 children across America stay home from school for fear of being bullied. Some 30 percent of all students are involved in the bullying cycle in the role...
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Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom: Helping Young Children Build Their Social Emotional Skills
Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom provides frameworks for planning and implementing strategies to support emotional development in children.This practical and easy-to-use resource helps early childhood educators develop the emotional literacy of the young...
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Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom: Helping Young Children Build Their Social Emotional Skills.
Strategies and activity ideas to support emotional development in children.
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Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
If there's one thing teachers should agree on, it's that creating a culture and climate conducive to fostering SEL is something we should all strive toward as educators. How can this resource help? Based on author Dr. Amy Cranston's experiences with...