In Co-Regulation 101: Moving from Difficult Behaviors to Self-Awareness, you will learn how to recognize when a child is dysregulated, respond with a calm and supportive presence, and guide both yourself and the child toward a sense of relief and emotional balance. This 6-step training focuses on real-world strategies you can use to build stronger relationships with the children around you.
Building the Stars back is a compassionate, foundational training that helps early childhood professionals understand behavior through a trauma-informed lens. Participants will explore how stress and trauma affect regulation in young children and adults, and learn simple, practical strategies to support safety, connection, and emotional development.
In Team Building & Self Care you and your team will participate in team building, identify stressors, and break down strategies to cope with stress and support positive self-talk. In fostering our own wellness and betterment we can better support the children around us.
In The Sensory Sensitive Classroom you will learn about the eight senses, how to identify avoidance and seeking in each of these sensory domains, and resources to implement in your classroom environment. We will work together to build your knowledge base and leave you with concrete applications to bring to your classroom today in order to facilitate a more inclusive and harmonious environment.
In Tune In, Calm Down: Creating Calm and Connection with Lullabies participants will discover how lullabies can help create moments of calm, comfort, and bonding in the infant room. This training teaches a nurturing, easy-to-use approach that helps teachers match babies’ needs and gently guide them toward regulation.
Built for Belonging invites educators to rethink disability as a natural and expected part of the children and families that we serve. Together, we will explore how history, systems, and classroom design shape who feels welcomed and who gets left out and how universal supports can help every child participate and thrive. Participants will leave with practical strategies to create classrooms where differences are valued, barriers are reduced, and all children truly belong.
Different, not difficult helps educators make sense of behaviors they see every day by exploring neurodiversity as a natural part of how children learn, communicate, and regulate. This training highlights how differences in development, culture, and experience can shape behavior and offers practical, equitable strategies to support children without relying on labels or. assumptions. Participants will leave with simple, effective tools to reduce frustration, build connection, and support all children more confidently.
Big feelings, big support focuses on the children whose behaviors can feel the most intense and overwhelming, and helps educators respond with confidence and care. This training explores how communication differences, regulation challenges, and life experiences shape behavior, while offering practical strategies that prioritize connection, safety, and access. Participants will leave with concrete tools to support big feelings, honor each child's voice, and create classrooms where even the most vulnerable learners can succeed and feel secure.
This training focuses on practical, classroom-ready strategies that support student regulation, reduce overwhelm, and increase access to learning across all grade levels. Participants will explore how predictability, movement, clear expectations, and co-regulation can be woven into daily classroom routines to support a wide range of learners. Rather than adding more to teachers' plates, this training highlights simple shifts that help more students succeed within existing structures.
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