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Calm Classroom, Calmer You
Thursday, August 22, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by Bari Koral, Kids Yoga Expert and Owner of Yogapalooza
Moderated by Laura Wilhelm, Ed.D., VP of Professional Learning Services, Kaplan Early Learning Company
Sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company
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View this edWebinar to get reinvigorated for the year ahead with effective, joyful new tools to calm your classroom and your life. Based on the latest neuroscience, learn how to take care of YOU this year! Plus, Bari Koral, Kids Yoga Expert and Owner of Yogapalooza, introduces you to a brand-new, simple, and effective four-part system for challenging behaviors developed with a top children’s therapist.
Practice short, fun activities that you can rely on every day for calm and ease in the classroom. We also stretch and release some stress with a few of Bari’s joyful award-winning songs. Help quiet your worry, fill yourself back up, and get reinvigorated for the year ahead!
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK-3 teachers, librarians, school leaders, and district leaders.
About the Presenter
Bari Koral is a singer-songwriter for children and a kids yoga pioneer. Her company, Yogapalooza, has helped millions of preschoolers (and their adults!) move their bodies, ease anxiety, and learn self-regulating practices while being entertained. Children are discovering original content they can enjoy on repeat to raise their spirits and find peacefulness in an increasingly chaotic and anxious world. Yogapalooza has been a leader in calming classrooms and teachers for over a decade. With a hugely popular YouTube channel and hits like Silly to Calm, Fly Like a Butterfly, Going on a Dragon Hunt, and much more, thousands of teachers enjoy and rely on Bari every day to engage and calm their children.
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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