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In the days following the school shooting in Bend,
In the days following the school shooting in Bend, OR, many of us are holding feelings of anger, worry, and deep care for the children, families, and educators impacted by gun violence. As we consider how to move forward and show up for children in our classrooms, we’re also asking: how do we offer children calm and steadiness when we ourselves don’t feel settled?

We offer this as one gentle way to make time and space for feelings, for children and for the adults who care for them.

After reading The Feelings We Feel, teachers in the Beaverton School District invited their students to explore the question, “What colors help you describe the feelings you feel?” Watercolors can be a soft, open-ended way to notice and express what’s inside. Perhaps it’s an invitation you’d like to try, too. 💛


Here we are hurting, frightened, beyond angry! And
Here we are hurting, frightened, beyond angry! And today teachers and children all around our country walked back into schools! It’s madness. Thank you to @thedougycenter for offering support to educators and families of having a road map of how to do the unimaginable work of talking to our kids about this.💔


Flip through our new curriculum resource with us 📖
Flip through our new curriculum resource with us 📖✨

Invitation to Explore includes 14 topics, each with materials lists, guided invitations, book connections, ideas for teaching for Habits of Mind, and bilingual resources for families with more languages to come.

Less time planning, more time exploring.

Order now for $50 - link in bio! 🍂

#earlychildhood  #teachersofinstagram #PreK #Kindergarten #InquiryBasedLearning


What makes a place feel like home? At our PreK PD
What makes a place feel like home?

At our PreK PD with Beaverton School District, @erindmoulton and @skarmol started by asking teachers this question, then asked how children might answer it. The answers were simple and powerful: being at home, turning on the lights, being with the people they love.

Soft light, shared meals, a cozy corner, a space children help build. These small details tell children they belong here.

What makes your classroom feel like home? 

#earlychildhoodeducation #playbasedlearning #teachersofinstagram


"Lesson plans begin with goals, inquiries begin wi
"Lesson plans begin with goals, inquiries begin with questions." -TPP's Soobin Oh


What if there's more to a pumpkin? 🎃 In Melinda H
What if there's more to a pumpkin? 🎃

In Melinda Hayward's PreK classroom, children looked closely, drew the lines they saw, then painted the true colors of nature. Not just orange!

Offer real materials and an open question, and children will reveal nature's true colors. 🍂

Learn more about observational drawing in our Resource Library (link in bio).

#reggioinspired #preschoolteacher #earlychildhoodeducation


Children are natural learners 🌱 In this clip fro
Children are natural learners 🌱 

In this clip from the Opal Archive, you can see how kids learn: they use their senses, play and imagine, tell stories, tinker, take risks, work together, and take things apart to put them back together in new ways.

Which of these do you see most in your classroom? Tell us in the comments 👇


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