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Your Magic Wand for Calm Staff and Children
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by Bari Koral, Kids Yoga Expert and Popular Recording Artist
Moderated by Dr. Laura Wilhelm, Vice President for Professional Learning, Kaplan Early Learning Company
Sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company
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From managing challenging behavior, teacher turnover, and modern stressors in our kids and parents, it could be argued that early childcare is not what it used to be. Join us for an engaging edWebinar with concrete strategies and tools to address many of the challenges facing our educational environments.
Back for a fourth time, kids yogi and recording artist Bari Koral is known for making mindfulness and self-care easy and simple. With her fresh take, she presents amazing new tools, fun yoga music, and easy actions for peace and calm. Bari shares how just five minutes a day can add up to big results in managing your children, your classroom, and your own stress.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK-3 teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders.
About the Presenter
Bari Koral is a popular children’s recording artist and a globally recognized kids’ yoga educator. She has written many of the most popular songs for kids yoga, music, and movement and is considered a kids yoga pioneer. With her large YouTube channel and hits like Going on a Dragon Hunt, The Yoga Alphabet, Fly Like a Butterfly, and more, Bari’s songs and activities are used by tens of thousands of children and teachers every single day. Yoga and mindfulness have helped calm her own anxiety and have significantly enhanced her life. Bari passionately seeks to share these tools for health and happiness with others. She has trained thousands of teachers and is at the forefront of introducing and reinforcing the benefits of yoga and mindfulness with young children and teachers.
About the Moderator
As the Vice President for Professional Learning at Kaplan, Laura Wilhelm, Ed.D. draws on decades of experience teaching young children and early childhood professionals, starting with toddlers in the 1980s, followed by PreK-third grade in urban and suburban schools, and as a university lab school director. Since earning her doctorate in ECE curriculum and instruction in 1999, she has served as a program director, full professor, national validator for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and a site visitor for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Programs (CAEP). She enjoys planning professional development, speaking at conferences, leading study tours, visiting early education programs around the world, and returning home to her family. She is the author of The Neglected Child: How to Recognize, Respond, and Prevent (2013); Treasure Baskets: Heuristic Learning for Infants and Toddlers (2017); Enticing Environments for People Under Three (2021); and Living Loose Parts: Creatures of Curiosity (coming in 2024), all from Gryphon House.
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