Article Themes
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Civility
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Taking Responsibility
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What’s on Educators’ and Families’ Minds?
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Empowered Children…Empowered Parents
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Shifting Hurting Power to Helping Power
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Changing Trends in ECE
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Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First: Care of Self
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Living with Uncertainty
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The Freedom of Making Choices
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Dear Olive Branch
With the Peace Table we are giving children strategies to be better able to manage relationships by listening to each other.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
One of the times parents and teachers are in the closest contact with each other is the “parent-teacher conference.” What is the best way to carry out a successful parent conference?
Family Partnerships
For educators it is important to be able to hear and understand family concerns through the family point-of-view. To do this you need first to build a relationship with the family that takes deep active listening.
Introduction to the Anti-Bias Ladder
This is the explanation of how going up the Ladder of Anti-Bias Goals to the treehouse of Peaceful Environments can help shift thinking to include the dynamic of power in our work for social justice.
Parent’s Corner
The talking stick is a peaceful way of solving a problem. In a conflict situation, the person holding the talking stick is the one who speaks while others listen with their hearts.