Early Childhood Resources
Social/Emotional Learning
According to the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), students should have opportunities to play alone if they choose, in addition to a classroom...
Teachers can download the classroom challenges and create a challenge card deck. Students can choose a weekly challenge to foster classroom community.
Conscious Discipline provides an array of behavior management strategies and classroom structures that teachers can use to turn everyday situations into learning...
This is a document with an explanation of the benefits of cooking in the early childhood classroom. This resource includes background information, easy recipes,...
Engaging yoga stories, perfect for indoor recess days and/or classroom mindfullness.
This is an awesome website for free professional learning resources specifically designed for early childhood.
It is important to address issues of race and bias in early childhood settings. Children notice race at a very early age and can begin to categorize people according...
This file includes recommendations for children's literature. The children's books are divided into three categories: Children's Books about Diverse...
This guide supports teachers in creating a developmentally appropriate daily schedule for an early childhood setting.
These Learning Modules are focused on telling the story of teaching and learning in highly effective Early Childhood and Elementary classrooms, with an emphasis...
This is a guide to using partner talk in early childhood.
Teachers can download these easy note templates to fill out and send home with students. Positive reinforcement is vital to teacher-student and teacher-family relationships....
This website will take you to the resource library for the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Compentence in Infants and Young Children. Here you will...
The questionnaire should be used as a reflection piece for teachers and staff after challenging behaviors occur. The teacher self-assessment can be completed by...
Teachers may read the document to get ideas for how to create a Safe Place in their classroom. Teachers will learn strategies for how to use the Safe Place with...
This is a selection of resources designed to assist teachers educating during the COVID-19 Pandemic. These resources were developed by the National Center for Pyramid...
eduToolbox® is a resource-sharing portal developed by the Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation with collaborative support and funding from the Tennessee Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education's Math & Science Partnership program.
