NEW: Gut Health = Mental Health
Mounting recent cutting-edge medical research on the significance of the health of our gut for overall mental and physical wellbeing is demanding the attention of parents, schools, workplaces, health care providers and policymakers. There are specific associations between a well-balanced and diverse microbiome and decreased risk for anxiety, depression, food sensitivities, obesity, autism, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. This new science focused on the trillions of microscopic bacteria, yeast, and viruses that live in our intestines is shining a light on the importance of the communication system along the brain-gut-microbiome axis. Unhealthy diet and stress can interrupt that system and potentially cause low-grade immune activation in the brain and body. Nutritional and lifestyle changes can optimize the health of your gut and positively affect mood, thinking, and overall health. Learn how to help your family, students, clients and staff through simple education on the novel idea that food is data for the human body.
The Role of Culture Email Me
Explore how cultural beliefs, values, and practices influence behavior and impact communication. Learn to build cultural awareness and comfort for children, families, and teachers, and help move toward cultural competence in the classroom.
Children and Fantasy Play
Examine the value of pretend play and address common concerns such as gender stereotyping and consumerism.
Play at the Center of the Curriculum
Looks at the “work” of children and why it is so important in their overall development, including cognitive and socio-emotional development.
Dual-Language Learners
Examine the research on raising and teaching bilingual children, and test the validity of popularly-held beliefs related to dual language learning.
Second-language Acquisition in Young Children
Review research on bilingualism and language delay, language confusion, and intelligence. Understand why use of the home language is helpful to second language acquisition.
Allowing Childhood
Learn how to resist the temptation to speed up children's development, and allow them the time and space needed to grow up happy and confident.
Emotional Intelligence
Explore the importance of emotional development, and learn how to help children recognize feelings, control impulses, and express emotions appropriately and productively.
Ages and Stages
Review the basics of the social, emotional, and cognitive development of a specific age group.
Positive Discipline
Proactive ways to encourage and teach children to be cooperative while enhancing the development of self-esteem.
Setting Limits
Fine-tune the skill of setting clear, appropriate limits that work for you and children. What teachers can do to teach children boundaries around any topic important in their lives and how to support parents in enlisting cooperation and while setting reasonable limits at home.
Children with Special Needs
Learn basic strategies for helping children with autism, ADHD, or emotion regulation challenges. Email Me
When Children Are Mean
Learn to help children with peer issues, whether they are the victim, the bystander, or the perpetrator, since they may be all of these at different times.
Temperament
Children display unique personalities, styles, and preferences as they interact with the world. Learn to recognize and appreciate each child's temperament, as well as your own.
Children's Friendships
Review the basics of social development, including expectations for specific ages/stages. Explore the importance of play, and learn tips for helping children resolve conflicts.
Promoting Children’s Mental Health
Review the early signs and common symptoms of mental health concerns involving children, and learn strategies for promoting wellness.
Understanding Motivation and Behavior
Make interactions with children more effective through greater understanding of the reasons for various behaviors.
Children and Biting
Learn why young children bite, along with the most effective ways of responding.
Rocky Road of Adolescence
Review the basics of this developmental stage and learn strategies for letting go while still holding on to those important connections that all teens need.
Nurturing Self-Esteem
Support a child's sense of self as a worthwhile, capable, unique individual. What teachers can do to foster the emotional well-being of children in their care, while supporting parents in helping their children develop their self-esteem.
Promoting Resiliency
Change is a part of life. Help children become better equipped to cope with different types of change, both minor and major.
Helping Children Learn from Failure: Building Confidence and Courage
Explore the role of failure in the development of positive self-esteem, decision-making, and discipline. Discuss the obstacles and guiding principles involved in freeing children to fail and rebounding from failure.
Who’s In Charge Here, Anyway?
Review the basic principles of successful behavior management, and learn how parents and teachers can communicate and cooperate as they help children thrive.
Children and Aggression
Explore young children's aggressive play and behavior, and learn how to respond appropriately and effectively.
Responsible Children
Responsibility is a key to success. Learn how to create an atmosphere where children want to be responsible.
Discipline from the Child's Point of View
Incorporate sensitivity to the child's perspective and understand the function of kids' challenging behavior while teaching them logical consequences.
Communication and Cooperation
The ability of adults and children to relate to each other is enhanced by a mutual understanding of needs and feelings. Discuss strategies that can promote communication and cooperation.
Let's Calm Down
Stress is everywhere these days. Help children and adults relax by learning some simple techniques that can be used in a variety of settings.
Rush Hour
Certain times of day are especially stressful. Understand what contributes to this stress, and learn strategies to make life more peaceful and pleasant.
School-Home Communication
Explore ways in which professionals and parents can work together as partners to ensure the success of any program for young children.
Helping Children with Social Challenge
Examine common problems involving group inclusion and exclusion. Learn how to help children help themselves, plus when and how to intervene.
The Learning Environment for the Curious Mind Email Me
Create an environment at school that invites children to observe, be active, make choices, and experiment.
Literacy
What teachers can do to develop literacy skills in young children and support parents in building literacy at home.
Ready, Set, Go!
The word readiness is often used in early childhood education. How does it apply to a three, four, or five-year-old?
Negotiating Transitions
Develop a better understanding of those issues which can prove stressful for children, and learn strategies to facilitate smooth transitions throughout their day.
Transition to Kindergarten
How can teachers best prepare children for the transition to kindergarten? Learn how building empathy, perspective-taking, and self-control are key.
Young Children and the Media
Learn how to set responsible guidelines for children at school and support parents in this work at home.
Moving Toward a Better Balance
Examine various life areas such as work, family and self. Gain an awareness of priorities and learn strategies for improvement.
Mounting recent cutting-edge medical research on the significance of the health of our gut for overall mental and physical wellbeing is demanding the attention of parents, schools, workplaces, health care providers and policymakers. There are specific associations between a well-balanced and diverse microbiome and decreased risk for anxiety, depression, food sensitivities, obesity, autism, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. This new science focused on the trillions of microscopic bacteria, yeast, and viruses that live in our intestines is shining a light on the importance of the communication system along the brain-gut-microbiome axis. Unhealthy diet and stress can interrupt that system and potentially cause low-grade immune activation in the brain and body. Nutritional and lifestyle changes can optimize the health of your gut and positively affect mood, thinking, and overall health. Learn how to help your family, students, clients and staff through simple education on the novel idea that food is data for the human body.
The Role of Culture Email Me
Explore how cultural beliefs, values, and practices influence behavior and impact communication. Learn to build cultural awareness and comfort for children, families, and teachers, and help move toward cultural competence in the classroom.
Children and Fantasy Play
Examine the value of pretend play and address common concerns such as gender stereotyping and consumerism.
Play at the Center of the Curriculum
Looks at the “work” of children and why it is so important in their overall development, including cognitive and socio-emotional development.
Dual-Language Learners
Examine the research on raising and teaching bilingual children, and test the validity of popularly-held beliefs related to dual language learning.
Second-language Acquisition in Young Children
Review research on bilingualism and language delay, language confusion, and intelligence. Understand why use of the home language is helpful to second language acquisition.
Allowing Childhood
Learn how to resist the temptation to speed up children's development, and allow them the time and space needed to grow up happy and confident.
Emotional Intelligence
Explore the importance of emotional development, and learn how to help children recognize feelings, control impulses, and express emotions appropriately and productively.
Ages and Stages
Review the basics of the social, emotional, and cognitive development of a specific age group.
Positive Discipline
Proactive ways to encourage and teach children to be cooperative while enhancing the development of self-esteem.
Setting Limits
Fine-tune the skill of setting clear, appropriate limits that work for you and children. What teachers can do to teach children boundaries around any topic important in their lives and how to support parents in enlisting cooperation and while setting reasonable limits at home.
Children with Special Needs
Learn basic strategies for helping children with autism, ADHD, or emotion regulation challenges. Email Me
When Children Are Mean
Learn to help children with peer issues, whether they are the victim, the bystander, or the perpetrator, since they may be all of these at different times.
Temperament
Children display unique personalities, styles, and preferences as they interact with the world. Learn to recognize and appreciate each child's temperament, as well as your own.
Children's Friendships
Review the basics of social development, including expectations for specific ages/stages. Explore the importance of play, and learn tips for helping children resolve conflicts.
Promoting Children’s Mental Health
Review the early signs and common symptoms of mental health concerns involving children, and learn strategies for promoting wellness.
Understanding Motivation and Behavior
Make interactions with children more effective through greater understanding of the reasons for various behaviors.
Children and Biting
Learn why young children bite, along with the most effective ways of responding.
Rocky Road of Adolescence
Review the basics of this developmental stage and learn strategies for letting go while still holding on to those important connections that all teens need.
Nurturing Self-Esteem
Support a child's sense of self as a worthwhile, capable, unique individual. What teachers can do to foster the emotional well-being of children in their care, while supporting parents in helping their children develop their self-esteem.
Promoting Resiliency
Change is a part of life. Help children become better equipped to cope with different types of change, both minor and major.
Helping Children Learn from Failure: Building Confidence and Courage
Explore the role of failure in the development of positive self-esteem, decision-making, and discipline. Discuss the obstacles and guiding principles involved in freeing children to fail and rebounding from failure.
Who’s In Charge Here, Anyway?
Review the basic principles of successful behavior management, and learn how parents and teachers can communicate and cooperate as they help children thrive.
Children and Aggression
Explore young children's aggressive play and behavior, and learn how to respond appropriately and effectively.
Responsible Children
Responsibility is a key to success. Learn how to create an atmosphere where children want to be responsible.
Discipline from the Child's Point of View
Incorporate sensitivity to the child's perspective and understand the function of kids' challenging behavior while teaching them logical consequences.
Communication and Cooperation
The ability of adults and children to relate to each other is enhanced by a mutual understanding of needs and feelings. Discuss strategies that can promote communication and cooperation.
Let's Calm Down
Stress is everywhere these days. Help children and adults relax by learning some simple techniques that can be used in a variety of settings.
Rush Hour
Certain times of day are especially stressful. Understand what contributes to this stress, and learn strategies to make life more peaceful and pleasant.
School-Home Communication
Explore ways in which professionals and parents can work together as partners to ensure the success of any program for young children.
Helping Children with Social Challenge
Examine common problems involving group inclusion and exclusion. Learn how to help children help themselves, plus when and how to intervene.
The Learning Environment for the Curious Mind Email Me
Create an environment at school that invites children to observe, be active, make choices, and experiment.
Literacy
What teachers can do to develop literacy skills in young children and support parents in building literacy at home.
Ready, Set, Go!
The word readiness is often used in early childhood education. How does it apply to a three, four, or five-year-old?
Negotiating Transitions
Develop a better understanding of those issues which can prove stressful for children, and learn strategies to facilitate smooth transitions throughout their day.
Transition to Kindergarten
How can teachers best prepare children for the transition to kindergarten? Learn how building empathy, perspective-taking, and self-control are key.
Young Children and the Media
Learn how to set responsible guidelines for children at school and support parents in this work at home.
Moving Toward a Better Balance
Examine various life areas such as work, family and self. Gain an awareness of priorities and learn strategies for improvement.
Additional Topics - Email Me
Using Tools of the Mind Curriculum in your Classroom
Using the Pyramid Model in your Classroom
Dealing with Preschoolers’ Frustration
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Helping Professionals Cope with Stress
Infant and Toddler Behavior and Development
Helping Children Understand Their Own Feelings and Those of Others
Teaching with Intention
Recognizing Depression in Children
Using the Pyramid Model in your Classroom
Dealing with Preschoolers’ Frustration
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Helping Professionals Cope with Stress
Infant and Toddler Behavior and Development
Helping Children Understand Their Own Feelings and Those of Others
Teaching with Intention
Recognizing Depression in Children