Webinars

Explore the connection between educator well-being, resilience, and student success. This session highlights the role of daily self-care in creating positive learning environments and offers practical ways for teachers to support their own needs while fostering social-emotional growth in students.

Learn how to support the development of self-regulation skills in young children to improve focus, learning, and social interactions. This session provides practical strategies for teaching children to manage big emotions, reduce challenging behaviors, and stay calm and engaged throughout the school day.

Explore practical strategies to nurture self-regulation in young children and reduce challenging behaviors. This session examines the link between self-regulation and school success and provides tools educators can use throughout the day to help children stay calm, focused, and engaged in learning.

Support your own well-being and resilience as an educator with practical, research-based strategies to reduce stress and prevent burnout. This session with Dr. Nefertiti Poyner focuses on building strength, patience, empathy, and joy so you can better support children, families, and communities every day.

Learn how music and movement can strengthen social-emotional development in young children. This session explores fun, accessible activities that build self-regulation, confidence, leadership, and social competence, while fostering classroom cohesion and supporting school readiness.

Discover how to integrate music into daily classroom routines to support children’s cognitive growth and social-emotional skills. This session connects brain research to practice, showing how music fosters literacy, math, empathy, and self-regulation, and provides a toolbox of songs and activities to bring joy and connection to the classroom.

Explore the seven essential social-emotional skills children need to thrive in school and life. This session highlights why self-regulation and group skills are key to academic success and provides practical strategies and activities to help children build emotional control, empathy, and positive relationships.

Shift from incidental to intentional instruction of social skills and emotional literacy in early childhood. This session provides a planning framework, simple visual supports, and playful strategies to help children regulate emotions, build self-awareness, and strengthen peer relationships.

Explore the connection between social-emotional learning and executive functioning in early childhood education. This session highlights current program needs and provides practical online and offline strategies to strengthen children’s skills and support high-quality learning environments.

Join playscape designer Rusty Keeler to reimagine outdoor play spaces of any size or budget. This session shares inspiring examples and practical ideas for creating nature-rich environments that spark imagination, engage the senses, and connect children to trees, gardens, sand, water, loose parts, and adventure.

Learn how to integrate nature-based practices into any early childhood program, whether traditional or immersive. Using a continuum of nature-based education, this session offers concrete strategies for program structure, environments, and teacher-child interactions, with practical ideas to implement right away and long-term goals to work toward.

Discover how to transform field trips into powerful learning experiences for toddlers through grade three. This session shares practical tips for choosing budget-friendly trips, aligning them with curriculum goals, and preparing children for success—while enhancing language, cognitive, and motor skill development through local adventures.

Join Rusty Keeler for an inspiring look at the value of risky play and how adults can confidently support it. This session explores the benefits of risky play, strategies to manage comfort levels, and practical tools to create environments that encourage children’s growth, creativity, and resilience.

Explore how to meaningfully integrate nature into any early childhood program, whether traditional or immersive. This session highlights teacher-child interactions that support learning with nature, including modeling, questioning, using silence, and fostering developmentally appropriate risky play—inside, outside, and beyond the classroom.

Discover how to create and organize loose parts kits with Dr. Carla Gull. This session explores homemade and commercial collections, storage and labeling strategies, funding and swap opportunities, and tips to spark children’s creativity and exploration through hands-on play.

Join designer and author Rusty Keeler to explore the joy and importance of outdoor play. Through stories and examples from around the world, this session highlights how risk, loose parts, and nature-rich environments foster children’s healthy development and creativity.

Learn how to integrate nature into everyday teaching through the principles of a nature-based approach. This session offers practical strategies for connecting indoor and outdoor learning, preparing environments for nature play, and building emergent, play-based curriculum rooted in children’s interests.

Gain year-round strategies for teaching outdoors with children ages 3–6. This session highlights seasonal, low-cost activities, ways to overcome common outdoor challenges, and the social, emotional, and cognitive benefits of using nature as a teaching partner.

Explore child-led, nature-based STEM learning in the outdoors. This session shares practical strategies to spark curiosity, build literacy, and use the learning life cycle to create meaningful explorations—plus tips for starting your own outdoor classroom.

Discover how living loose parts—like bugs, plants, pets, and friends—can enrich children’s play and learning. This session explores ways to respectfully integrate living things into playful exploration, expanding the loose parts mindset to support creativity, social-emotional growth, and a deeper connection to the world around us.