Strategy Library
Browse and review strategies you can use to support children's social, emotional, and self-regulation skills.
This library contains strategies that can be used to foster specific social-emotional skills, both with individual children or within a group setting. Our strategy offerings range from short, informative webinars to complete learning suites that include printable resources.
Our strategy library is a work in progress. Each month, we will add new strategies that are focused on a particular social-emotional or self-regulation skill. Check back often for more freely available resources!
Supporting Emotion Regulation
Help children recognize, describe, and manage emotions using a range of evidence-based strategies.
Banking Time with Individual Children
A targeted strategy for building positive, sensitive, and supportive relationships with a child.
Teacher to Teacher Consistency
Learn how communication and collaboration between teachers support student learning.
Transitions and Routines
Learn how to create transitions and routines that maximize engagement and minimize downtime.
Cues and Visuals
This strategy is a great way to help children know what to expect and what is coming next.
Providing Choice
Children thrive when they are active agents in their own learning. Find out how you can use this strategy.
Modifying Activities and Environments
This suite covers strategies for supporting children’s behavior by maximizing engagement.
Supporting Friendships Skills
This suite includes strategies to help children practice social skills and make friendships.
Supporting Social Problem Solving for Preschoolers
This suite includes a set of clear strategies and steps to guide children as they solve social problems.
Encouragement and Affirmation
Learn how positive, authentic encouragement and affirmations help boost children’s confidence.
Reinforcement
This strategy gives attention to children’s positive behaviors using praise, recognition, or rewards.
Effective Instructions
Learn how to craft simple and clear statements that share your behavioral expectations
Fostering Teacher-Child Relationships
Explore simple yet powerful ways to strengthen your relationship with every child.
Consequences - Linking Behaviors to Outcomes
This strategy helps children choose positive behaviors by linking behaviors to outcomes - both positive and negative.
Serve and Return Interactions
Learn five simple steps to build relationships and make strong connections in a young child's developing brain.
Windows and Mirrors Through Books
Use Grace Lin's TedX Talk and our guiding questions to explore how books provide children with a window into the larger world, as well as a mirror for self-reflection.
Supporting Infant and Toddler Emotions
Young children are just beginning to understand, express, and manage their emotions. Learn strategies you can use to guide and support this critical skill.
Supporting Infant and Toddler Friendships
As young children develop, they may begin to show interest in other children. Find out how you can model and support early friendship skills.
Supporting Social Problem Solving for Toddlers
This series of lessons includes three simple steps you can use to help toddlers engage in positive peer interactions.
Covid-19 Adaptations
Whether you are teaching in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person setting, this webinar series provides ideas for making your interactions with young children as meaningful and effective as possible
Supporting Behavior During COVID-19
This webinar shares effective strategies you can use to support positive behaviors and engagement in any setting.
Supporting Strong Emotions During Covid-19
This webinar explores how we can validate and support children’s strong emotions as they adapt to an evolving learning environment.
Relationship-Building During COVID-19
This webinar covers relationship-building strategies you can use in a virtual, hybrid, or socially distanced setting.
Celebrating Sense of Self During COVID-19
This webinar explores key strategies to support children's sense of self and celebrate culture and diversity in your classroom.
Fostering Empathy During Covid-19
This webinar explores how we help young children develop empathy and understanding, a critical life skill that supports our relationships with others.
Fostering Emotional Literacy During COVID-19
This webinar explores three key strategies that can help children connect a wide range of feelings with emotion words.
Preparing for Social Problem Solving During COVID-19
This webinar shares effective strategies you can use to prepare children for social situations as they head back into the classroom.
