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Pushing Past Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom

When teachers face challenging behaviors and emotions in the classroom, it is important for them to check in with themselves as they seek to guide children in the best way possible. You can't have calm, regulated children without calm, regulated adults! Angela Searcy, EdD—former neurodevelopment specialist with more than 25 years of experience in education and author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors—shares her strategy for teachers to calm themselves, then their children, and push past challenging behaviors and disruptions in the classroom.
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3 Tips for Transition Times with Young Children

Rae Pica, author of Teachable Transitions: 190 Activities to Move from Morning Circle to the End of the Day and many other books, invites us to question why we often ask children to do things during transition times that they are not yet developmentally equipped to do. For example, be quiet, stand still, and stay in line. Oftentimes, these “asks” can make transition times stressful and frustrating for young children. Nature has put a process in place to help children develop the skills they need over time. Rae Pica proposes that we keep this developmental process in mind, and offers 3 developmentally appropriate tips to make transition times with young children less chaotic and less frustrating.
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Books for Smooth Transitions in Early Childhood

Any parent, caregiver, or early childhood professional knows that transition times can be tough for children! This includes not only big transitions like those from preschool to kindergarten, but also small daily transitions from waking up, to circle time, to activity time, to clean up time, to nap time, to departures. For young children, these small daily transitions and segments within the day seem quite big! In this list, you will find resources to help take the stress out of transition times by providing teachers with effective strategies to help children focus their attention in positive ways, engaging transition activities, as well as creative chants, songs, fingerplays, games, and more!
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How to Create Inviting, Interesting, & Intriguing Classroom Environments for Deeper Engagement

Children learn by investigating and exploring the world around them, so we need to make sure that “world” draws them in and gives them opportunities to learn! Laura Wilhelm, EdD— Vice President of Professional Learning at Kaplan Early Learning Company and author Enticing Environments for People Under Three— shares how we can more deeply engage young children by creating environments with the “3 I’s” in mind—Inviting, interesting, and intriguing.
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3 Steps to Creating a Snuggly Classroom Nest for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds

Classroom learning environments can have a huge impact on the ways children learn, develop skills, gain confidence, and make connections. Even for very young children—infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds—environments help shape their learning. Laura Wilhelm, EdD— Vice President of Professional Learning at Kaplan Early Learning Company and author Enticing Environments for People Under Three— shares how early educators and caregivers can little by little create nurturing “classroom nests” for our youngest learners so that they can develop and grow in an environment where they feel both safe and stimulated.
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Books for Creating Quality Care and Learning Environments for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds

Child-care environments as well as caregiver-child interactions play an extremely important role in the learning and development of infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds. In this list you will find a wealth of resources for creating quality learning environments, positive interactions, daily plans, and developmentally appropriate activities for our youngest learners so that they can play, grow, and thrive! Discover unique and interesting ways to transform ordinary objects, classrooms, and activities into engaging learning experiences for birth through two-year-olds.
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3 Ideas for Creating Nurturing Spaces for Seclusion in the Early Childhood Classroom

Sometimes early childhood classrooms can be noisy and overstimulating to young children, leading to challenging behaviors, and decreased engagement and learning. Sandra Duncan—coauthor of Through a Child’s Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning and Wonder—compares the early childhood classroom to Times Square and explains why young children need comforting, secluded spaces where they can refresh and regroup just like adults do! Here are her 3 ideas for creating nurturing spaces of seclusion in the early childhood classroom, away from the hubbub and the noise.
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Related Book: Through a Child’s Eyes
School Reopening: Addressing Behavioral Challenges by Updating School-Wide Discipline Policies

Students' well-being is an urgent priority for every school reopening after the pandemic. Behavioral challenges are expected to rise as students return to school having experienced multiple stressors from the past year. Rather than returning to the way things were, Sascha Longstreth, PhD and Sarah Garrity, PhD, co-authors of Effective Discipline Policies: How to Create a System that Supports Young Children's Social-Emotional Competence, suggest rethinking how we approach students' behavior and creating high-quality school behavior policies.
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Cooling Down Strategy for Teachers: Pushing Past It

In those moments when you face challenging behaviors in the classroom, pushing yourself is crucial. But what exactly does push yourself mean? It is more than simply forcing yourself to be logical when your emotions want full control, though that is an important element. Angela Searcy, author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors, says that this is where the PUSH PAST It technique comes in. PUSH PAST It is an acronym for a cognitive process that moves your brain from your initial reaction to a higher level of thinking so you can problem solve.
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Encourage Play at Home

In Building on Emergent Curriculum: The Power of Play for School Readiness, author Sarah Vanover, PhD suggests ways educators can guide families to encourage play at home.
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