Webinars

Educators support social-emotional learning through relationships and daily interactions, but their own well-being matters too. This session explores the connection between self-care and resilience, offering practical ways to identify moments during the school day to recharge—helping educators sustain their energy, model emotional balance, and create positive learning environments for students.

Supporting self-regulation is essential for helping young children manage emotions, focus, and engage in learning. This session explores how intentional classroom design, modeling, co-regulation, play, and sensory experiences can be woven throughout the day to support preschool and kindergarten students as they develop calm, controlled, and responsive behaviors.

Self-regulation plays a key role in children’s ability to manage emotions, stay engaged, and succeed in learning and social situations. This session explores how educators can intentionally support the development of self-regulation skills throughout the school day, offering practical strategies that help children replace challenging behaviors with calm, focused, and responsive actions.

Resilient children begin with resilient adults. This session focuses on supporting educator well-being by exploring simple, research-based strategies to reduce stress, build resilience, and restore joy in daily work. Learn practical tools that strengthen patience, empathy, focus, and emotional balance—helping adults show up with greater energy and fulfillment for children, families, and learning communities.

Healthy social-emotional skills are foundational for school readiness and lifelong learning. This session explores how developmentally appropriate music and movement activities support social and emotional growth in young children, strengthening self-regulation, confidence, leadership, and group connection through joyful, participatory experiences.

Explore how musical learning and play can be woven into daily classroom routines to support cognitive development, social skills, and a joyful learning community. This session connects current brain research to practical, easy-to-use musical activities—songs, fingerplays, and playful experiences—that engage all learners, even for educators with no musical background.

Social and emotional skills are foundational for children’s success in school and life. This session explores the seven essential skills young children need to regulate emotions, work with others, and engage in learning, while sharing practical strategies and activities educators can use to support emotional understanding, self-control, and positive relationships.

Building skills for cooperation and emotional regulation is essential in early childhood classrooms. This session explores how educators can move from reactive responses to intentional instruction by using playful learning experiences and simple visual supports to strengthen children’s social skills and emotional literacy, helping them better understand themselves and others.

Explore the role of social-emotional learning and executive functioning in early childhood programs and why these skills are critical for young learners. This session examines current challenges facing early childhood settings and shares practical online and offline strategies educators and leaders can use to support children’s development and learning success.

Rethink outdoor play spaces and discover how even small or low-budget yards can be transformed into rich environments for play and learning. This session explores ways to reconnect children to nature through sensory-engaging, imaginative outdoor spaces and highlights inspiring examples that embrace loose parts, natural elements, challenge, and adventure.

Nature-based learning can take many forms, even within traditional early childhood settings. This session explores the core principles of a nature-based approach and offers practical ways to integrate nature into daily teaching through program structure, physical environments indoors and outdoors, and intentional teacher–child interactions—supporting meaningful learning experiences along a continuum of nature-based practice.

Field trips can be powerful extensions of classroom learning when thoughtfully planned. This session explores how local walks and community explorations can deepen learning for children from toddlerhood through grade three, offering practical guidance for choosing meaningful trips, aligning them with curriculum and developmental goals, staying within budget, and maximizing learning before, during, and after each adventure.

Explore the benefits of risky play and the vital role adults play in supporting it. This session invites reflection on personal comfort levels around risk, offers practical tools for navigating challenging moments, and shares real-world examples of environments that say “yes” to play—helping educators thoughtfully support confidence, resilience, and joyful learning.

Nature-based learning can be integrated into any early childhood setting. This session explores the core principles of a nature-based approach with a focus on teacher–child interactions that support learning with nature. Learn practical ways to embed these principles into daily teaching decisions indoors, outdoors, and beyond the play space—supporting inquiry, thoughtful facilitation, and developmentally appropriate risk-taking.

Develop a loose parts mindset by exploring how to build, organize, and expand loose parts kits using real objects from your environment. This session shares practical strategies for creating and maintaining homemade and commercially prepared collections, optimizing storage and cleanup, and supporting children’s curiosity, creativity, and experimentation through open-ended play.

Explore the benefits and beauty of outdoor play and why risk is essential to children’s healthy development. This session highlights bold, play-rich approaches to outdoor environments, including loose parts, climbing, mud play, and other experiences that support curiosity, confidence, and joyful learning.

Early education leaders are increasingly drawn to nature-based learning, but it’s not always clear where to begin. This session explores the core principles of a nature-based approach and offers practical strategies for connecting indoor, outdoor, and beyond-the-classroom learning through seasonal, place-based experiences that support emergent curriculum, play, and children’s interests—regardless of setting or access to nature.

This edWebinar explores practical, year-round outdoor learning experiences for children ages 3–6. Learn how to use nature as a teaching partner through low-cost, seasonal activities that support social, emotional, and cognitive development, while gaining confidence in navigating common challenges of teaching outdoors in a variety of settings.

Dig in and discover playful, outdoor STEM learning for young children. This edWebinar shares child-led, nature-based approaches that build understanding of the natural world while supporting literacy and language development, and offers practical guidance for creating an outdoor classroom that sparks curiosity and wonder.

Low- and no-cost living loose parts—from plants and insects to pets and peers—can enrich children’s play and deepen learning. This session explores how noticing and thoughtfully incorporating living elements into play supports curiosity, creativity, and social-emotional development through respectful, interactive experiences.

Designed for early childhood educators and leaders, this recorded edWebinar focuses on understanding the root causes of challenging behavior and applying evidence-based strategies to support children’s social, emotional, and behavioral development.

Learn how responsive relationships and intentional environments support social and prosocial development in infants and toddlers.

Explore how treasure baskets and heuristic play support sensory discovery and sustained engagement for infants and toddlers using low- or no-cost materials.

Babies learn through all their senses. This edWebinar explores how intentionally designed environments can deepen engagement and spark curiosity in infants and toddlers. Learn low- and no-cost strategies using the three I’s—inviting, interesting, and intriguing—to transform both indoor and outdoor learning spaces for children under three.

This recorded edWebinar explores how thoughtfully designed environments and materials can spark rich play and learning in infant and toddler classrooms. Through real classroom experiences, you’ll discover practical strategies for creating spaces that support creativity, curiosity, and joyful exploration.

Designed for nurturing caregivers, this recorded edWebinar introduces the Reggio Emilia approach and offers practical ideas for creating sensory environments that encourage curiosity and exploration in infants, toddlers, and twos.