Teachers deserve to be appreciated every day in every way! Get ideas that come from the heart and make an impact for your teachers.
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Passover and Easter are full of rituals, festivities, and food. Bring tradition alive, and create your own, with these resources to make your seder, egg hunt, and holiday celebrations more inclusive and less stressful.
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“He’s just naughty” said the teacher. “The teacher hates my child” thought the parents. How do you transform judgement into trust to rebuilt the sacred family-school relationship? You ask for help, and you benefit from an objective expert who can observe, reflect, and make recommendations. I am that help, and this is the story of how judgement transformed into trust that benefited a little learner, his family, a teaching team, and the whole class.
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Meaningful learning and growth come from building on strengths. My strengths support connection within families, communication between teachers, and collaboration among families, therapists, and schools. Love of learning, honesty, perspective, and gratitude are my top character strengths. These strength, together with a passion for the power of play and the importance of inclusion, drive Learn Play Grow's innovation and my clients' success.
I help families think outside the box and achieve new understanding of education and advocacy. Having been a been a classroom teacher for 10 years, I relate to educators with empathy and empowerment. I bring together teams of families, therapists, and schools to build on each other’s strengths and help children of all abilities succeed.
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Little ones are watching us struggle, as they should, because we are human. Little ones are listening to the words we use around challenges and learning how they should respond. Our instinct may be to shield our children from struggle, but if we focus on shepherding then through it, we will teach them by example how to be fully human.
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Opportunities for learning together are all around us, and everything we do can have therapeutic value. Now more than ever we need to celebrate this potential to reimagine education, intervention, and family engagement. Learn Play Grow supports education, intervention, and family engagement at home, at school, and in the community to help children of all abilities reach their greatest potential.
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Research shows play can improve children's abilities to plan, organize, get along with others, and regulate emotions. In addition, play helps with language, math and social skills, and even helps children cope with stress. Giving [children] plenty of opportunities to play is one of the best ways to help them grow into curious, creative, healthy, and happy adults equipped with the skills they need.”
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