Embedded Files
Cross Curricular
Cross Curricular
Classroom Collaborative Workstyle Discussion Guide - an activity for a class team to use to begin to open communication about how they are best able to work as a collaborative team
National Geographic Education Resource Library – Thousands of activities, articles, photographs, and more in the areas of science and social studies
Prompting Guide for Staff supporting students
Providing Positive Feedback and Encouragement Cheat Sheet
Family Engagement
Family Engagement
Building Parent Partnerships
Parent Education - What school does and how we’ll try to communicate with you
Determining what the best way to communicate with the parent - If I send you a text will you read it as a part of our partnership?
Determine how your school will allow dad's that travel, parents that work two jobs, or families with medical issues partner with the school - How will we ensure a connection with these families?
Caregiver Responsive Routines Planning Form - help caregivers plan their routines to ensure success at home
Help Us Have a Good Day! - Positive Strategies for Families (Image)
How to Help Your Child Learn to Share - handout for families
Scripted Stories - Scripted stories are a great tool to support a child who has difficulty in a routine or activity
Social/emotional/behavioral resources:
Social/emotional/behavioral resources:
Book List - includes diverse examples of books that can be used to promote social-emotional skills
Bouncy Balls - "Bounce balls with your microphone! A fun way to manage classroom noise or visualize music."
Center on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learning - Teacher Resources - Tools include scripted stories for social situations, book guides for social-emotional stories/lessons, & materials for teaching social emotional skills.
Calm - Free mindfulness training tools for educators (scroll down all the way to the bottom to enroll for free!)
Checklist of Early Childhood Practices that Support Social Emotional Development and Trauma-Informed Care - will help guide your thinking about how to support the social emotional development of young children who have experienced trauma
Creating your own Google tour to support students with social stories and transitions
Exploring Feelings with Story Time (video)
Feelings
First/Then Boards - templates to develop visual supports
National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations:
Teaching tools for young children with challenging behaviors - a variety of tools including turtle technique, visual strategies, feeling vocabulary, etc
Making Life Easier handouts for families - tip sheets for families regarding going to doctor or dentist, holidays, running errands, bedtime & naptime, etc
Evidence-Based Practices - includes a series of "What Works Briefs" on common EC interventions, such as helping children understand routines, make transitions, promote positive peer interactions, and manage their own behavior
NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children):
Message in a Backpack - "Message in a Backpack™ is a column that appears in Teaching Young Children. Print these documents out and send them home with children as a resource for their families!"
NAEYC Guidance & Challenging Behaviors - articles, blogs, and resources to share with families regarding handling challenging behaviors
Outdoor Recess Matters! - strategies to prevent and reduce children's challenging behavior on the playground
PBIS World - “PBIS World is a website containing links to hundreds of interventions, supports, resources, and data collection tools, all of which are organized into the tier 1 through 3 framework.” (PBIS World FAQs)
Positive Reframing Tool - a list of common unflattering ways students are described and ways to reframe them
Relaxation Thermometer - Use the thermometer as a visual to show how their affect changes and can intensify or relax (or calm) depending on the
level of emotion they are experiencing
Sesame Street & Autism Resources
Sesame Street videos on Social Development - a wide variety of videos targeting social development with Sesame Street characters
Social Stories
Solution Kit
Super Friend Certificate: Reinforcer
Early literacy resources:
Early literacy resources:
Center for Early Literacy Learning Practice Guides - "These guides can be used by early childhood educators,for promoting infants, toddlers, and preschoolers literacy learning using interest-based and highly engaging activities."
Center for Early Literacy Learning CELLpops - enhancing daily routines with literacy.
Cornerstones - offering literacy units for teachers of young students who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy - Pre-Kindergarten - Article from General Education Leadership Network in Michigan that lists 10 practices that should occur every day in early literacy instruction, and gives concrete examples for each practice.
Florida Center for Reading Research Early Childhood Learning Activities - Activities for students in the areas of alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, language, & vocabulary.
Learn with Homer - Learn to Read program for desktop, iPad, or iPhone - phonics-based games are super engaging!
PowerMyLearning Connect - Thousands of carefully selected online games, videos, and activities; use with small group or individual students to reinforce specific concepts or skills.
Reading Universe - This site provides an awesome graphic organizer of the areas of reading, from which you can click and find videos, teaching resources, etc starting in Pre-K. Click login & enter password: abc123
Teach Your Monster to Read - “A collection of four adaptive mini-games aimed at increasing how quickly and accurately students recognize letters and sounds.” (EdSurge S’Cool Tool review)
Early numeracy resources:
Early numeracy resources:
PowerMyLearning Connect - Thousands of carefully selected online games, videos, and activities; use with small group or individual students to reinforce specific concepts or skills.
Ten Frame Mania - math one to one counting app
Just for fun resources:
Just for fun resources:
No Time for Flash Cards - a fun resource bank of preschool activities with lots of ideas and pictures of how to make it happen
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