CLASS for Educators
Creating Life-Changing Experiences Through Meaningful Interactions
Getting Observed?
What to expect when your classroom is going to be assessed.Hone Your Skills with Free Resources
Discover tips for engaging your students and improving on educator-child interactions.
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Story Time Live
Create special memories for the children in your classroom while learning instructional support strategies for story time. Each story comes with downloadable reading guides packed with instructional support strategies.
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Connect with over 25,000 educators and leaders to share and discuss effective teaching practices. Gain access to exclusive content, share your own resources, and extend your learning and professional network.Tips from the Blog
13 Children’s Books for Social-Emotional Learning
A read-aloud is a powerful tool. In shared reading experiences, young children explore new worlds, hear new vocabulary, build relationships with their caregivers, and start to apply concepts to their own lives. Books, as it turns out, really are magic.
Using Open-Ended Questions in the Classroom
Open-ended questions are an effective way to challenge your students and learn more about how they think. They encourage extended responses and allow your students to reason, think, and reflect. Read some examples of open-ended questions.
5 Strategies for Scaffolding in an Early Childhood Classroom
When teachers provide feedback, they expand a children's learning and understanding of the world around them. Scaffolding is an excellent strategy for supporting both individuals and an entire class, and can come in many forms.
Strategies for Teaching Empathy in the Early Childhood Years
Children don't display empathy the way adults do because they are still developing social-emotional skills. But educators can instill foundational skills for children to build upon as they mature.On Demand Webinars
How Can Teachers Use CLASS to Build Equity?
Learn how teachers can use the CLASS tool to build equity in their classrooms.
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Know, then Grow: Becoming an Anti-Racist, Anti-Biased, Trauma-Informed Educator
On-Demand: Explore the reality of racism, white privilege, and implicit bias in learning settings.
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The Impact of Trauma on Behavior: Seeing Children’s Actions As Communication
On-Demand: How traumatic experiences can impact children’s behavior and what we can do as adults to support these children.
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Equitable Interactions in Early Childhood Education
Learn practical, research-based strategies to promote equitable teaching so that every child can experience life-changing teaching interactions.
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Celebrating Great Teaching – How Teachers Can Use Small Moments to Make a Big Impact
In this webinar, we celebrate small moments in teaching, explore how they make a big impact, and discuss strategies to implement to make the most of them during the upcoming school year.
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Beyond Black History Month: Supporting Black Children, Families, and Educators All Year
In this webinar, you will learn how program directors can better support Black educators, and how educators can build equitable relationships through meaningful interactions.
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