book chats

Room to Learn

Elementary Classrooms Designed for Interactive Explorations

This edWebinar will review philosophy and theory related to developmentally appropriate practice for young learners in the primary grades, explore the pillars of the physical environment for academic learning that make up the APPEAL rating scale.

Rethinking Classroom Containers

Rethinking Classroom Containers

In this webinar, Dr. Sandra Duncan will explore why the primary job of containers in the classroom is not to hold learning materials and objects but to spark children’s interest and engagement with the containers’ contents.

Minds and Hearts Together – Essential Tools for Learning: Nurturing social-emotional learning in the early years

Minds and Hearts Together – Essential Tools for Learning: Nurturing social-emotional learning in the early years

Children live their lives with their hearts and minds open and connected. From that union of heart and mind, they develop into people who are balanced, happy, and successful. Learning objectives for this presentation: Research is supporting the importance of social emotional learning combined with academic instruction. Attendees received the most recent research information to support their understanding of the importance of social emotional learning.