creating opportunities
An environment of trusting, safe, and nurturing relationships can foster emotional growth in children and is essential in laying the foundation for academic learning. These growth-promoting relationships include relationships with their teachers, peers, and the adults around them. This module will explore the core components that nurture an environment of growth-promoting relationships.
LESSONS

teacher – child
teacher – child
Explore different approaches in developing relationships with children based on respect, acceptance, and authenticity. Learn how to foster a classroom environment that gives children the opportunity to be a leader, learner, observer, and negotiator.

teacher – parent/family
teacher – parent/family
These trainings explore the “two-voices” in the teacher-parent/family relationship and the different expectations around trust, perceptions, expectations, and boundaries.

teacher – program
teacher – program
These trainings reflect on ways to build a team of dedicated, supportive individuals committed to serving children and their families in a mutually nurturing environment in these informative trainings.
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environment modules
Identifying, examining, and applying the elements of school environments that create emotional safety